While creating a game on my MacBook Air M1, the computer froze with a spinning rainbow colored wheel

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While creating a game on my MacBook Air M1, the computer froze with a spinning rainbow colored wheel

I created a game on roblox and tested it on my dad’s mac. Suddenly… i saw a rainbow color spinning wheel on my mac. I searched on my ipad how to prevent it and it said force quit. I tried force quit but it didn’t work. I tried several times, still does not work. I tried clearing the background app, the spinning color wheel didn’t allow me. Finally, I saw the name of the wheel. It’s called spinning wheel of death. I saw my storage was full. How do I fix this?

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MacBook Air (M1, 2020)

Posted on Apr 11, 2024 10:55 AM

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Tesserax

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Apr 11, 2024 12:40 PM in response to watootree

I believe the "clue" is that your Mac's storage is full.

Start with this support article: Free up storage space - Apple Support

If that doesn't help, then you still have a couple of choices:

Try starting up in Safe Mode.
Try booting up in Target Disk Mode. This will only work if this is an Intel-based Mac. This will also require a second Mac. The idea here is placing the "full" Mac into this mode, and then, accessing it from another Mac as though it was an external drive. From the other Mac, you can then move/delete files from the "full" one to make more storage space.

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