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Catalina 10.15.2
iMac is now consistently (but not constantly) failing to shut down - all icons disappear just freezes with my desktop picture, sometimes all night because I thought it shut down and find out next morning it didn't.
are there logs or something I can look at or do to resolve this.
iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS 10.15
Hi ringspa,
You can take a look at the console to see what might be happening.
One thing you could consider doing is make sure that your applications are closed as some applications such as Microsoft Word might prevent it from shutting down as documents might need to be saved.
Have you tried updating to 10.15.2 yet? It fixes a number of issues.
I hope this helps.
Hi ringspa,
You can take a look at the console to see what might be happening.
One thing you could consider doing is make sure that your applications are closed as some applications such as Microsoft Word might prevent it from shutting down as documents might need to be saved.
Have you tried updating to 10.15.2 yet? It fixes a number of issues.
I hope this helps.
Thanks. This is with 10.15.2. I don't think it's a user app blocking, those conditions usually generate messaging; nothing is open at the time of shutdown other than background processes (dropbox etc).
I looked in the console but don't see anything obvious and/or don't know where to look... no obvious messages I can see around the time of the all-night shutdown.
It did it again last night and again this morning. It's not every time, but frequent...
I have the same issue. Nothing on screen except desktop background then hangs indefinitely. Does not happen all the time however. Seems to work fine otherwise
My iMac is having g the same issue. I have closed all the apps and somtimes it still won't shut down.
I pull the power cord each night. Catalina is a step backwards.
I've concluded this is an issue with Catalina hanging when ejecting my external hard drive during shutdown. Whenever I manually eject my hard drive first and then shutdown, it shuts down ok.
imac doesn't shutdown on catalina
