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My iMac keeps crashing! Catalina 10.15.5

Everything is fine and the all of a sudden I get:


com.apple.appkit.xpc.openAndSavePanelService (not responding)


It makes other apps not respond and eventually Finder will not respond and I can't relaunch it. I try to shut down or restart and it just hangs and I have to turn off at the power. It's happening two or three times a day.


Earlier, I noticed it happen when I tried to print to pdf from Word. Sometimes, when I leave the mac on for a while and come back to it, it's just crashed and I have to turn it off. It's driving me insane!


It's been happening ever since I updated to Catalina.


Any help would be appreciated.


Jane

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 10, 2020 12:44 PM

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I uninstalled AVG 3 days ago and I haven’t had a crash since. I’m guessing that was the problem for me.


Thanks for the advice.

Posted on Jun 16, 2020 9:26 AM

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Jul 29, 2020 12:57 PM in response to Art-121

You can save us asking dozens of questions by submitting a report from this App for us to look at…

EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.

https://www.etrecheck.com/


Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report if you capture the URL while there…

https://pastebin.com/

Whew, they've changed pastebin & made it harder, but after pasting in, click Create new paste button, then Embed button, then copy the URL...

<script src="https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA"></script>


The important part is...


https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA


Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...

Sep 8, 2020 10:43 AM in response to BDAqua

Right now, I'm just dealing with the Catalina slowdowns and crashes, trying to remember to proactively re-boot every few days before anything goes awry ... I really can't afford the time to do a deeper debug, so controlled reboots are my answer. Whatever happened to "it just works"?! Back in the day, my Mac would be rock solid for months at a time.


It's all very unfortunate.

My iMac keeps crashing! Catalina 10.15.5

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