I’ve been trying to open up some applications ( iMovie, Safari, Word ) however, none of them seem to open. The message of “application is not responding“ shows up when i click on the icon in the dock. My computer is also quite slow, i’ve pressed the power button off to shut it down however, this hasn’t helped. How can i resolve this?
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15
Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262 in some instance this is all it takes.
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and test.
Reboot and test will take a little longer as caches get rebuilt.
This will also tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
You can Test issue in another user (or guest user) account https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262 in some instance this is all it takes.
Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and test.
Reboot and test will take a little longer as caches get rebuilt.
This will also tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
You can Test issue in another user (or guest user) account https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
Applications not responding
