Mac Os Mojave freezes
Since updating to OS Mojave's my Apple mac keeps on freezing 😠. Is there any way to stop this?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), Mojave
Since updating to OS Mojave's my Apple mac keeps on freezing 😠. Is there any way to stop this?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), Mojave
Alas. So much for the easy solution.
This list (https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac-software/apps-work-macos-mojave-3678735/) might point you to some trouble spots among the big software contenders, but it's worth noting I have a pretty good spread of many of the apps listed there (CS5, Word 2011, etc), and none of them crash or burn, nor do they contribute to any slowdowns on my Air. The trouble I was having on my Mini appears to have been due entirely to a failing HD.
That is the next thing to check, by the way. Run Disk Utility on your drives and see if any of them report problems in the SMART status (bottom left of the table of info here):
If it says anything other than "Verified", you'll need to replace the drive soon.
In addition to that, run over your Mac with a fine-tooth comb. If there's any third-party stuff loading in your system menu, or anything loading under "Login Items" with your user account, make sure it's up to date. Also, older software that was not cleanly uninstalled might have left something behind that's interfering with your system now — though tracking that down might be extraordinarily difficult.
Some third-party apps require you to disable SIP (system integrity protection) to install and run. If you don't remember ever booting to recovery and entering this command in the Terminal:
csrutil disable
…then you probably don't have any such software on your machine. Nevertheless, try loading Terminal (you don't have to reboot to do this) and enter this command:
csrutil status
If you see anything other than "System Integrity Protection status: enabled.", you'll need to boot to recovery, select Terminal from the Utilities menu, and enter this command:
csrutil enable
…Followed by a reboot. You can only enable or disable SIP from recovery. You can't do it from safe boot or even via sudo.
Among other things, SIP keeps permissions on files and folders what they ought to be. If those permissions get munged, some programs (and possibly macOS itself) might have trouble functioning.
Do you have a third-party peripheral, such as a keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner, or some other hardware element? Confirm its drivers are up to date.
If you have Flash, make sure it's the most recent version. (Check it via the Flash Player item in System Preferences; if it's not there, you probably don't have Flash.) I got a system dialog today telling me the Flash updater daemon was 32-bit, not 64-bit, and so I needed to run an update (the default is for it to auto-update, but I turned that off years ago). Apps that have daemon programs like that, running in the background periodically, are likely suspects in quietly causing trouble in a largely-untraceable way.
Also, take a look at Font Book and see if there are any fonts listed that appear to be damaged or poorly coded. Problematic ones should show the yellow caution triangle next to them in the fonts list. Consider turning those off, or removing them, if there are any.
I've seen problems like software-extension incompatibility before, and it always results in unpredictable system performance somewhere. The trick always is finding out which program is the source of the problem. You've probably seen EtreCheck referenced in other posts in this forum. It might be worth running a report on your machine, seeing if there's anything noted in it, and removing the problematic software, if any.
me too it is frustrating and the only way to fix it is by a hard reboot
Super frustrating happening to me too. I've stopped indexing lets see if that helps.
Yes, my issues were every bit as bad as the others described here. Other applications appeared to be starved for resources. The only solution was a hard reboot.
I have a fresh install of Mojave in 2015 MBA. It constantly freezes! I did as suggested and disabled spotlight. Here's hoping!
So I would just like to report that at least with my iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015) & 10.14.1 Beta (18B67a) which is Beta 4 the problem seems to be fixed 🙂
Mine is a Mac Pro 5,1. Mouse moves, but everything else freezes. Can’t close anything or reboot. The only way to solve it is to long press the power button.
Did you even try it? You can also clear the NVRAM if needed.
I tried it. Uninstall little snitch. Clear the VRAM, Re-instal Mojave in recovery mode. Reset the SMC. Nothing work.
Now I'm waiting for the Mojave update and pray it solve this boring problem.
Does anyone else with this issue run McAfee with Real-time Scan (or any other anti-malware/firewall package that continuously scans)?
I suggest you reset your machine. I had a strange mouse problem that this reset cured.
http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/24/when-and-how-to-reset-your-mac-system-management-controller-smc/
If you're going to run iCloud Photo Liberty then you should disable My Photo Stream as that can cause duplicates in your library.
Check Ex-Cops reply in this link: Aug 30, 2019 8:50 AM in response to Ex-Cop
remember looking at that a while ago...didnt solve the issue for me.
well at least its resolved for some ppl.
This is the worst more likely irresponsible macOS version ever. Its a serious bug and they released it. If the finder hangs at the start we can't do anything.
I upgraded my mac mini from 10.13.6 to 10.14 and faced this problem. Even I tried clean installation but nothing seems to work. Removing com.apple.finder plist from ~/Library/Preferences file only work for the next reboot. The moment you reboot again you will face the same problem. ðŸ˜
I think I have some insight into what's going wrong and why, and a few things we as users can do to work around it (and that Apple can do to address the problems on the system level). Here's my writeup: Frequent system hangs and freezes in macOS Mojave 10.14: Notes, reproducible errors, and possible workarounds
Mac Os Mojave freezes