High Sierra macOS freezing and stops

I upgrated to high Sierra and have a big problem since then. About 3-4 times a day in my worktime my MacBook Pro (i7, 256 SSD, 16 GB RAM), is lagging and freezing. I even can't move the mouse on the screen, only music is playing. I don't know what is the problem because i cant even make a report on that. This is a real problem, because I am working and this still happens. Maybe anyone have this problem too? What can I do, because untill upgrade everything worked perfectly fine.

Help please !!

Posted on Oct 5, 2017 2:15 AM

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chopples123

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Posted on Oct 29, 2017 2:40 PM

I posted earlier, for reference i have a MacBook late 2013 retina 13 inch, only intel iris no nvidia. As stated previously this issue was around during the beta.With High sierra I had tried everything including clean installs via usb installer. Whenever I went back to sierra all was well again.

Today, after a time machine backup I formatted the drive back to hfs and did a internet recovery back to the stock os (mavericks) i then did a full download of high sierra and did an upgrade but used a terminal command to bypass the conversion to the apfs file system. I have been running now for approx 14hours and have not had any crashes. before i was having a crash probably every hour so this is a massive improvement 🙂

I am obviously missing out of the performance increases from using apfs (which I have never noticed) but at least i now appear to have a stable system and photos is working as intended with my iOS 11 devices

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DJRobX

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Nov 6, 2017 9:43 AM in response to Rogerzhou

Update: After installing MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Beta 1the freezes during usage seem to have stopped. However it will still freeze waking or sleeping.

Nov 11, 2017 12:19 AM in response to sckeedoo

I've even hit this problem when my Mac mini auto turn off displays.

So, I change Power saver setting to stop auto turn off or sleep my mac.

Hope this issue be resolved soon.

Ralf64

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Apr 11, 2018 8:58 AM in response to sckeedoo

Same problem on an iMac 27-inch...

I uninstalled FLASH!

BINGO!

All good so far.

fingers crossed.

Uninstall Flash Player for Mac OS

Jul 19, 2018 10:20 AM in response to sckeedoo

If you're using BetterTouchTool, it might be the culprit:

https://community.folivora.ai/t/macos-10-13-4-freezing-with-bettertouchtool-usag e/1185

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