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I am having issues with my 2019 MacBook Pro- 15"-32 gb/1 tb /8 core- concerning the spinning rainbow wheel during tasks such as iPhoto, Safari and other applications. Does anyone know how to keep this from happening, I have cleared history of Safari, ran the recommended Malware scan to no avail.

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.14

Posted on Apr 11, 2020 5:01 AM

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Posted on Apr 11, 2020 8:56 AM

spar6920 wrote:

I am having issues with my 2019 MacBook Pro- 15"-32 gb/1 tb /8 core- concerning the spinning rainbow wheel during tasks such as iPhoto, Safari and other applications. Does anyone know how to keep this from happening, I have cleared history of Safari, ran the recommended Malware scan to no avail.



Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well if Catalina) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904


If no resolve—

To get a good look at your System config. for conflicts or issues, you can download/run this trusted utility https://etrecheck.com

If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the editing toolbar below, in your reply.


You can set its preference to "Allow full Disk Access", with this you get a digest of issues from the last 7 days that are saved in your system. _No_ personal information is revealed.



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Apr 11, 2020 8:56 AM in response to spar6920

spar6920 wrote:

I am having issues with my 2019 MacBook Pro- 15"-32 gb/1 tb /8 core- concerning the spinning rainbow wheel during tasks such as iPhoto, Safari and other applications. Does anyone know how to keep this from happening, I have cleared history of Safari, ran the recommended Malware scan to no avail.



Boot into Recovery (Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well if Catalina) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904


If no resolve—

To get a good look at your System config. for conflicts or issues, you can download/run this trusted utility https://etrecheck.com

If you need help interpreting the report you can post it here in its entirety in the "Additional Text" box in the editing toolbar below, in your reply.


You can set its preference to "Allow full Disk Access", with this you get a digest of issues from the last 7 days that are saved in your system. _No_ personal information is revealed.



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