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Spotify seems to cause frequent instability on High Sierra/MBPro late 2011

My elderly but thus-far reliable MBPro is behaving erratically, and it always seems to occur when using the Spotify app.

By "erratically" I mean that when using other apps with Spotify open, I sometimes get the beach-ball for minutes at a time; sometimes the computer just restarts spontaneously. I haven't gotten any specific error-messages.

The hard drive has plenty of space (280 G).

I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else; or maybe it's my hardware in need of an update!

I'm going to try not playing Spotify for a week and see if the problem occurs anyway.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Sep 14, 2021 12:28 PM

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BDAqua

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Posted on Sep 14, 2021 2:22 PM

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.

Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.

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...

The important part of the above is between the quote marks...

https://pastebin.com/embed_js/KuvnghqA

If pastebin is a problem for you then 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...

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