Spinning beachball during disk First Aid.
Wondering if someone has experienced this?
I am hoping this isn't a hardware issue = trip to Apple Store and down time for laptop repair.
I had to force power down my 2021 16" MBP because it wasn't shutting down on its own (can't remember exactly what was going on at this point.....I think Finder was being weird after I force quit a First Aid pass on my time capsule drive).
Anyway, holding down the power key until she quits always makes me wonder about file errors being created because OS wasn't allowed to shut down normally.
So....I restarted into the Recovery Partition.....Disk Utility.....and ran (tried to run) First Aid on everything. The small partition that holds the Recovery Partition checked out ok, as did the top level main hard drive ("Apple SSD media...").
However, any attempt to First Aid the Container Disk level, or below that, resulted in a spinning beachball icon within less than a minute and total unresponsiveness (thus, more force shutting down by holding the power button).
With some trepidation, I rebooted and found that the OS booted as usual.
I tried, then, Disk Utility from within the normal MacOS boot environment.
Here, results were a little different. Every single entity ("Apple SSD media…”, APFS container, Macintosh HD, etc.) checked out ok…except for the "Data" partition. "Data" I checked twice and each time it made it as far as checking snapshot 3 (there are 19 snapshots total), during which the progress bar (the blue one that oscillates back and forth) froze and the trackpad became unresponsive (didn’t move screen pointer and even the force feedback “click” of the trackpad stopped). No beachballs.
I once again had to do a force restart.
I have no idea what’s up, but hope this is a glitch in the latest OS version, and not a bad SSD or other physical issue.
This is on a 2021 16" MBP M1 Max currently running latest MacOS (Ventura 13.2.1). The computer has no aftermarket equipment hooked up to it or other peripherals.
Thank you for any thoughts you might have.
MacBook Pro Apple Silicon