iMac running slow in all apps, frequently with spinning beachball

This happens on or near startup before I am even coming close to pushing the RAM. I looked today after an entire morning of work and Memory Pressure in Activity Monitor is the lowest rung of green. Of course I understand that in an ideal world you max the RAM out but just throwing RAM at it will probably not help in my case especially considering it is a problem from startup.

Uninstalled Sophos but not sure how much it has helped. From Restart to "Bong" 0.51. Restart to Sign in screen 1.59. Open Outlook 1.33. Open Illustrator 2.34 (note: opened separately for timing). Those are just two examples. It does this extra long start with all apps. And once in an app, clicking on just about anything will elicit a beachball and 10-20 second delay before the action executes.

I logged some instances below when I got a delay/beachball as well as one unusual situation (second one down). I grabbed the times just before and just after the time I noticed the delay/beachball as well as what I was doing at the time. Hope this helps and is what you were looking for.

Clicking in text box in PowerPoint and got a beachball at 9:15:31

6/10/16 9:15:20.127 AM Microsoft Outlook[564]: Stream 0x7f080980 is sending an event before being opened

6/10/16 9:15:20.127 AM Microsoft Outlook[564]: Stream 0x7f080980 is sending an event before being opened

6/10/16 9:15:41.572 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.PubSub.Agent[715]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.pubsub.ipc

6/10/16 9:15:41.572 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.PubSub.Agent[715]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.pubsub.notification

Soon after, and not sure of the significance, but over the next 4 seconds there were 430 messages that started and ended with the two below, all had “kernel[0]: Sandbox: SpotlightNetHelp(393) deny(1) file-read-data”

6/10/16 9:20:37.000 AM kernel[0]: Sandbox: SpotlightNetHelp(393) deny(1) file-read-data /Users/Charles/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist

6/10/16 9:20:41.000 AM kernel[0]: Sandbox: SpotlightNetHelp(393) deny(1) file-read-data /Applications/Utilities/VoiceOver Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/VoiceOver Utility

Trying to save png in Illustrator and got a beachball at 9.25.23

6/10/16 9:25:16.125 AM garcon[750]: Invalidating watch set.

6/10/16 9:25:16.128 AM garcon[750]: Watch set is now: {(

file:///Users/Charles/Team%20Dropbox%20(new),

file:///Users/Charles/Dropbox%20(Personal)/,

file:///Users/Charles/Dropbox%20(Annexus)/

)}.

6/10/16 9:25:18.000 AM kernel[0]: ignored is_io_service_close(0x100000482,IOHIDParamUserClient)

6/10/16 9:25:30.041 AM garcon[750]: Garcon destroyed (0 alive).

6/10/16 9:25:30.044 AM ACCFinderSync[751]: host connection <NSXPCConnection: 0x7f8e69c4b5e0> connection from pid 637 invalidated

6/10/16 9:25:30.044 AM garcon[750]: host connection <NSXPCConnection: 0x7fe793713400> connection from pid 637 invalidated

6/10/16 9:25:31.332 AM iconservicesagent[396]: -[ISGenerateImageOp generateImageWithCompletion:] Failed to composit image for descriptor <ISBindingImageDescriptor: 0x7feaa9f04d70>.

6/10/16 9:25:31.332 AM quicklookd[394]: Error returned from iconservicesagent: (null)

Accessing Screensavers in System Preferences at 9.35.33

6/10/16 9:35:33.939 AM System Preferences[774]: Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints:

(

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb344714c0 NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb3446e400'-'.width == NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb34419620'-'.width>",

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb34471210 NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb34056850'-'.trailing == NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb34419620'-'.trailing>",

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb34470ce0 NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb34419620'-'.leading == NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb34056850'-'.leading>",

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb34470ae0 NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb3446c940'-'.trailing == NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb3446e400'-'.trailing>",

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb344708c0 NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb3446e400'-'.leading == NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb3446c940'-'.leading>",

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb34470a40 NSImageView:0x7fcb3446fb50.centerX == NSBox:0x7fcb34418830'Active Screen Corners'.centerX>",

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb34470a90 H:[NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb34056850'-']-(29)-[NSImageView:0x7fcb3446fb50](LTR)>",

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb34470870 H:[NSImageView:0x7fcb3446fb50]-(29)-[NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb3446c940'-'](LTR)>",

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb34471260 NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb34056850'-'.left == NSBox:0x7fcb34418830'Active Screen Corners'.left + 34>",

"<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb34470d30 NSBox:0x7fcb34418830'Active Screen Corners'.right == NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb3446c940'-'.right + 35>"

)

Will attempt to recover by breaking constraint

<NSLayoutConstraint:0x7fcb34470a90 H:[NSPopUpButton:0x7fcb34056850'-']-(29)-[NSImageView:0x7fcb3446fb50](LTR)>

Set the NSUserDefault NSConstraintBasedLayoutVisualizeMutuallyExclusiveConstraints to YES to have -[NSWindow visualizeConstraints:] automatically called when this happens. And/or, break on objc_exception_throw to catch this in the debugger.

6/10/16 9:35:35.571 AM System Preferences[774]: Attempted search for modules of unknown type (4)

6/10/16 9:35:39.072 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.MediaLibraryService.781) Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.ap ple.MediaLibraryService.xpc

6/10/16 9:35:39.073 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.MediaLibraryService.781) Path not allowed in target domain: type = pid, path = /Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.apple.iT unesLibraryService.xpc error = 147: The specified service did not ship in the requestor's bundle, origin = /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaLibrary.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/com.ap ple.MediaLibraryService.xpc

6/10/16 9:35:39.080 AM com.apple.SecurityServer[85]: Session 100027 created

6/10/16 9:35:41.991 AM com.apple.SecurityServer[85]: Session 100028 created

6/10/16 9:35:44.276 AM System Preferences[774]: [09:35:44.275] <<< FFR_Common >>> FigFormatReaderCreateForStreamReturningMatchingContainerLabelType: *** Could not find format reader for URL "file:///Library/Screen%20Savers/Default%20Collections/2-Aerial/Aerial01.jpg" path "/Library/Screen Savers/Default Collections/2-Aerial/Aerial01.jpg" extension "jpg" FileType '' MIMETYPE "(null)" SuggFileName "(null)" SuggNameExtension "(null)"

6/10/16 9:35:44.276 AM System Preferences[774]: [09:35:44.276] FigFormatReaderCreateForStreamReturningMatchingContainerLabelType signalled err=-12847 (kFigFormatReaderError_FileNotRecognized) (Unrecognized content) at /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/CoreMedia/CoreMedia-1731.15.204/Prototype s/FormatHandlers/FigFormatReader_Common.c line 2158

Note: it then repeats similar messages 10 more times.

Simply opening a new email in Outlook

6/10/16 9:49:41.000 AM kernel[0]: nvDevice: IOUserClient outputCount count mismatch

6/10/16 9:49:43.447 AM Microsoft Outlook[564]: -[WDPromptWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'WDPromptWindow'.

6/10/16 9:49:43.839 AM Microsoft Outlook[564]: Failed to connect (bccContainer) outlet from (MessageComposeViewController) to (OLUnconstrainedAutoLayoutView): missing setter or instance variable

6/10/16 9:49:44.882 AM WindowServer[159]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Microsoft Outlook" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.

6/10/16 9:49:45.891 AM WindowServer[159]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Microsoft Outlook" after 2.01 seconds [0.50fps] (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds [1.00fps])

6/10/16 9:49:47.228 AM WindowServer[159]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Microsoft Outlook" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.

6/10/16 9:49:47.419 AM WindowServer[159]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Microsoft Outlook" after 1.19 seconds [0.84fps] (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds [1.00fps])

6/10/16 9:49:51.845 AM WindowServer[159]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "Microsoft Outlook" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.

6/10/16 9:49:53.467 AM WindowServer[159]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Microsoft Outlook" after 2.62 seconds [0.38fps] (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds [1.00fps])

6/10/16 9:50:10.361 AM Microsoft Outlook[564]: Error loading /Applications/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Proofing Tools/English Contextual Speller.proofingtool/Contents/MacOS/Contextual Speller: dlopen(/Applications/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Proofing Tools/English Contextual Speller.proofingtool/Contents/MacOS/Contextual Speller, 262): Library not loaded: @rpath/MicrosoftProofingLanguageData.framework/Versions/A/MicrosoftProofingLang uageData

Referenced from: /Applications/Microsoft Outlook.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Proofing Tools/English Contextual Speller.proofingtool/Contents/MacOS/Contextual Speller

Reason: image not found

Note: it then repeats the last message 20 times.

I will give that a shot and let you know. It happens though in all apps and the Finder, not just Office.