Mac Os Mojave freezes

I am using a 2017 iMac 27inch and my problem is somewhat different. A few times a day, if I don't use my stylus and intuos pad, the cursor freezes in the upper left corner of the screen. Nothing I do, including waiting ten minutes, free the cursor. I have to use the key board to reboot, and all is fine. When the cursor is frozen, I do not get the twirling ball or any other part of the system freezing. I can use arrow keys to navigate and reply to dialogs, and the keyboard to switch apps.

I have tried the remedies below, but none have any effect. How annoying and disruptive!

Same here!!!!!!!

Freezes up, lagging, the ty entering speed is not matched with the speed i type, major lack of appearing on the search bar, even now as I type....

open system preference is like opening PhotoShop can you believe that?

I have done power reset, unplugged power and hold power for 5 seconds, also did option + command + RP.

NO LUCK!

Watch YouTube or any other online videos, it freezes up but audio is playing.

I did clear all caches, cookies, uninstalled some apps, cleaned use cleanmymac X, no luck whatsoever.

Please release new update to correct the error, Apple PLEASE.

Never experienced my Mac AS A PC, you hear me?! I think you do, so please correct Mac as a MAC.

holy ****, this has become even worst than windows, whenever some app is opening, everything else freezes... except the pointer... which cannot do anything apart from move around on a frozen screen.

like i have never seen this bad OS lag/hang since windows xp.... steve jobs would have never allowed an OS like this to come to his macs

OK, so it just happened again and this time I had enough patience to open console and see what was happening. These are the logs that appeared just after the freeze ended every few seconds:

After each log, the machine was responsive for about another 5 seconds before freezing for 5 seconds in a constant cycle that even continued as it was shutting down.

i had dragged my whole hard drive into dont look up per the original suggestion by ex-cop, (and it worked but too limiting) so i am going to try your fix now 🙂----- just one question. below the box with the options where you checked those 3 items is a box to check or uncheck that says "allow spotlight suggestions in lookup" what did you do with that? thanks!

FWIW may Mac app beachballing problem just started again. This is with 10.14.1.

Time machine was not running (previously I thought it might be a trigger).

Safari and Mail locked up at about the same time, followed by Messages and Calendar.

For me- Microsoft and Adobe apps still seem to be fine, as is Chrome which I am using to type this. I'm trying to gather as much information as I can before I reboot.

The only other thing I can find in Activity Monitor that is also locked up is:

com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice

EtreCheck reports no issues at all.

Update: I did the Spotlight thing (put all the drives into private, rebooted into safe mode, cleared the cache, deleted /.Vspotlight (sp) and rebooted.

Very next wake 4 hours later it froze cycled again :/

I’m having the same issue. Imac, late 2012. Updates are currant. 8g ram, 2tb ssd. I am a freelance designer and this keeps happening on a regular basis since the Mojave upgrade. Sometimes several times a day. I cannot tell you how much time and money this has cost me in lost work that could not be recovered.

Hi guys,

As recommended by so many here, I disabled spotlight indexing of my HDD but it didn't work. My Mac froze again just now. For me, this always happens while I'm online. So waiting for the fix to come by.

Second day of same exact issues Sunny813 has been experiencing and 6th reboot to no avail. :(

i am sad... only started happening after MOJAVE, which sounds great.

I cant even try the aforementioned techniques because either the keyboard and mouse don’t seem to be able to toggle or click to open anything. And when I think it might, it sits in the perpetual spinning beachball mode, for as kind as 40 minutes on one attempt.

After the two upgrades, problem indeeds persist on my iMac (see below). 2 other machines (more recent iMac and MBP) seem unaffected. This is just unacceptable. :-(

Hardware Information:

    iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013)

    iMac Model: iMac14,1

    1 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5 (i5-4570R) CPU: 4-core

    16 GB RAM - Upgradeable

    BANK 0/DIMM0 - 8 GB DDR3 1600 ok

    BANK 1/DIMM0 - 8 GB DDR3 1600 ok

Video Information:

    Intel Iris Pro - VRAM: 1536 MB

    24EB23 1200 x 1920

    iMac 1920 x 1080

Drives:

    disk0 - APPLE SSD SM0128G 121.33 GB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)

    Internal PCI 5.0 GT/s x2 Serial ATA

        disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB

        disk0s2 [APFS Fusion Drive] 121.12 GB

            disk2 [APFS Virtual drive] 1.12 TB (Shared by 4 volumes)

                disk2s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) (Shared - 788.32 GB used)

                disk2s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared)

                disk2s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared)

                disk2s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 1.07 GB used)

    disk1 - APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 1.00 TB (Mechanical - 5400 RPM)

    Internal SATA 3 Gigabit Serial ATA

        disk1s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB

        disk1s2 [APFS Fusion Drive] 1000.00 GB

            disk2 [APFS Virtual drive] 1.12 TB (Shared by 4 volumes)

                disk2s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) (Shared - 788.32 GB used)

                disk2s2 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared)

                disk2s3 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared)

                disk2s4 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 1.07 GB used)

The videos don't play in Quicktime, in the finder, and the streaming don't work too (both audio only or video)

When I restart my computer , it works for a while and the problem is back after a moment...

But whyyyyyy ?

I mac 5K retina 27" 4,2 GHz Intel Core i7 16 Go /Ram Radeon Pro 580 8192 Mo

Its so irritating to see my MAC getting frozen 3 times a day atleast. Ever since this Mojave has come life this problem has arose. Most of my time is spent on the browser, the moment I feel my internet stopping and I click on the Wifi icon above, spinner keeps moving indefinitely and wifi tray doesn't open up either. Thereafter it doesn't let me shutdown, restart legitimately. Microsoft products hangup too after this.

I am not sure if this is all being caused by the MacOs or Microsoft products are causing this frozen situation. I am hopeful TimCook should also face this issue. Its embarrassing, if every Mac user would start to face this issue after every few hours, people would rather want to go with the Surface book.

Same here.

All GUI freezes for 20 seconds at a time. Music is still playing and mouse moves with no beachball.

Can easily be provoked, happnds one of ten times, by maximise a window or try to show Mission Control.

Wow ! My problem seems minor compared to yours. I can just avoid the apparently corrupted folder on "Macintosh HD", which has nothing I created in it anyway. I have no idea where it came from. It just appears at system start up. So, for now, I am going to be really boring, and pragmatic, and ignore it, and not select it, and maybe it will disappear in the next update of OS X? It is one of those problems I can walk around for now, so I am not going to waste any more time trying to analyse what it means. I suppose I could run the Terminal app and try to find this strange folder in the OS X directory system, and try to delete it, but I am not convinced it is worth the bother, or even a good idea, since it is probably better to let Apple, eventually, fix the problem, and work out the problem's root (sic) cause, hopefully by the next update of OS X.