Catalina 10.15.6 keeps crashing

I have been with apple for years and this latest version so bad I am ready to sell my new mac pro.

Copy and Paste...such a simple function...crashes consistently.

Finder craps out when it wants to

And the latest updates to pro codes that just came out...has all my pro apps messed up. Licesning of third party stuff shot...what a mess.

Not sure if anyone else has tried to disable Thunderbolt...but considering I have a thunderbolt raid for my working files, two thunderbolt monitors.... I don't think thats going to be a solution for me.

I likewise installed update on my MacBook Pro and it crashes after period of no use... everything is locked up and I have to do a hard reset... also have lost use of my webcam within the past week.... tried all of the camera reset options but is not recognized by my apps that use the camera. Not necessarily attributing camera issues with updates. However, the timing of these issues might be more than coincidence. I stream video with HULU and for 3 days, Hulu could not confirm my location and would not allow me to stream... again, not sure why the problem was happening but couldn't get anywhere with troubleshooting....

I thought only PCs have these problems... Apple! You're letting me down.

Sixteen days without crashes, but today I had een issue with Firefox which updated itself to version 80.1 and gave the following message:

The help page of Firefox advised to restart the Mac, which I did. No problems with restarting, but the problem was not not solved. so I tried the following advise of the help page of Firefox:

After following these steps, everything was working again. The message about safety software makes my anxious about Malwarebyte, it is the only safety software that is on my Mac. I haven't used that program since the last hard reset.

My mac crashed the first 5 minutes after the install (a while back). After that it stayed up. It has crashed 3 times since then.

I am writing now because it crashed shortly after booting up and turning on some music in my Chrome Browser.

I'm on a Macbook Pro 2019 i7 - It might be too old - Apple I think only tests software in 6 month manufacture iterations apparently. :thumbs-down:

3rd crash in 30 minutes.

Narrowing it down to an external hard drive. Trying to now wipe my time machine disk, it can't even eject it.

Apple you guys probably need to see if you guys know how to read external hard drives without crashing the whole computer. This might be something to add in your OS after 20 years (or maybe you should have never made Catalina because this OS sucks)

Thursday I removed Malwarebytes. Yesterday Mail did not show the content of my mails, only a list of mails. After stopping and restarting Mail I got the multi colored ball and had to do a hard restart. I checked for the presence of Malwarebytes software remnants en removed them. One I was unable to remove: MB_MBAM_Protection.Kext.

Thank you Old Toad. I just had another crash and I am using macOS 10.15.7. The MB_MBAM_Protection.Kext file is the only file left and according to the Malwarebytes site, it can cause no harm. I think the problem I am having now, is somehow caused by the Mail app. It behaves strange slow to start, showing mail boxes, messages but when I select a message the full mail appears, and then disappears and showing "no message selected".

If my problem is connected to the MB_MBAM_Protection.Kext file, I will follow your advice!

Also having a nightmare, brand new iMac, only weeks old and it randomly crashes and re-starts. No errors or diagnostics to point to the issue. Apple are being totally useless about it. Could it be a hardware conflict or is it likely dodgy upgrade macOS issue?

Yeh I dropped around $2600 on the macbook pro. I pay $30/mo x 3 for iPhones for my family. We're starting to wonder when Apple is going to step up and match the money because the hardware is priced too high to have more problems than a Windows machine.

Time is ticking Apple. Tick-Tock, Steve Jobs would have had this **** handled by now.

There's a fan issue with macbooks? I have a thin piece of wood propping up my laptop on a table, with loud music playing and 12 feet away.

If there were a fan issue on my laptop, I'm guessing I'll know when it catches on fire. Good going apple! :D

lkrupp wrote:

Another well known utility developed by a member here is also not in the App Store, Malwarebytes.

Just to be clear, EtreCheck is in the App Store (at least for me).

Didn’t work for me either. I’m forced to switch back to my Windows PC as my MacBook Pro isn’t stable now.