Mac Os Mojave freezes

Ah gosh, that is really weird.

However I am glad it was not the beachballing again. I hope that was just a onetimer.

I am quite good for the last 4-5 days now. I had a longer beachballing session (for like 2 minutes, bit with smaller laggs than before and I was making a time machine backup at this point so that might cause that).

If it turns out its iCloud for you as well: dont't leave the thread, we should find out why its happening to get our iClouds back. :)

I have periodic hangs on my late 2014 5K iMac running Mojave 10.14.4. Thought his upgrade would solve my problems, but no. Any ideas besides reverting to High Sierra in Time Machine (and losing the content I've added in the intervening time)? Thanks.

I can confirm same experience. On Macbook Pro mid 2015 16 GB ... A lot of freezes, coloured wheel, bouncing app icon on start... until Hi Sierra everything was fine. Seems a very bugged version. The worst macOS ever. Very disappointed. Really.

waiting it out another 7 days ...

i had decided to turn on notes, reminders safari and keychain but since doing that suffered another hemorrhage ....

completely signed out since yesterday, going to wait it out at least a week

just a moment ago, experienced an issue .... this time i don't think it was a beachball, but cant confirm because i wasn't at the computer when it happened.

left computer with safari page open, when i got back 10 mins later .... the fan was running, dock gone, safari was the only thing on the screen, then it went black after clicking around.

no beachball, just mouse cursor on a completely black screen.

and this is with no iCloud connections within the OS whatsoever.

either might be safari, else there might be a deep hardware issue that no diagnostic has been able to reveal. or it could be bad code in the OS.

anyone running the latest 14.5 ? any observations with that ?

it looks like i have a serious problem ...

had a bb of death today but before that noticed my laptop getting hot.

following a restart, now my machine wont boot. the progress bar during startup wont complete and computer shuts down. tried several times to reboot, clearing nvram, safe mode wont go either ....

in recovery, du is telling me:

not sure whats going on here but i have some work i need to get done and can’t access it.

im not religious about tm backups. i try to capture good states i am comfortable with as starting-over points.

even if i was, id be in the same situation because i just acquired and started working on the file within an hour of encountering this issue.

so, the file is not on the tm backup.

i will try to boot into my windows installation later, if that’s successful, that might help me get the file out of the macos partition and into windows where i can resume my work.

hardware test indicates no issues.

able to successfully boot into windows 10 and recovered the file from the macos volume.

i decided to try a time machine restore from within recovery, left it to do that and will return to the computer later this eve to see if it was successful.

if that works ... i can run techtool to see if it spots any issues on the ssd.

Sorry for long delay on this response:

I agree with comment on limited (not total) susceptibility of Mac devices to viruses, but my view is that this doesn't prevent re-distribution of infected files to non-Mac users/platforms, and McCafee scans incoming/outgoing email attachments, although this feature can be disabled.

etrecheck hasn't helped me much. because of the nature of my problem: there's no way that my macOS would reach the point where it acknowledges a crash. and force restarting will not bring up the crash reporter (or whatever it's called).

activity monitor and console don't help much either.

i've been living with stints of bad behavior (freezing 4-5 times in a few hours) and good behavior (no freezing for 4-5 days).

all areas I check within the OS, disk utility, etc. do not indicate any sort of problems.

have tried shutting off spotlight

have tried disabling icloud

....

i think i have posted etrecheck output somewhere in this thread. etrecheck did not flag any issues out of the ordinary for me.

there is nothing to find in console, nothing is logged. i see the boot time events which are generated after i force restart, but prior to that, no process that indicates a hang or error of the sort.

and have observed the issue with an absolutely clean install of macOS, with no additional apps installed.

no hardware faults, even with apple's in-store overnight test.

any other ideas ?

Rather than have us search thru 26 pages of replies for your report either repost it here or start a new topic where you are the original posted and will get replies geared to your "specific" problem.

Me too. I almost thought something is wrong with my Macbo

Macbook*

I disabled spotlight this afternoon. I will reboot and let the group know tomorrow if it makes a difference. I am not hopeful.