I am constantly getting a death wheel whenever browsing through my HD... I don't understand why but it happens all the time. I can't get anything done while I am trying to search throughout it. Any ideas. ITS ONLY in the HD part but once I am in there it gives me problems elsewhere. I don't understand why. VERY frustrating.
Its a 2014 15 inch MBP. Thanks.
Greetings,
For safety, be sure you have a current backup of your data: Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support
1.) Try SafeBooting your computer and then restarting: OS X Yosemite: Start up in safe mode
2.) If the issue persists, reindex Spotlight for your Macintosh HD: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes - Apple Support
3.) If the issue persists at this point, I'd suggest booting to recovery and repair your Macintosh HD with Disk Utility: Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck - Apple Support
Hope that helps,
Madison
When you see a beachball cursor or the slowness is especially bad, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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