Mac Os Mojave freezes

Just some stuff to try, not sure how helpful they may be as this does sound like a bug, but:

- Safe Boot then reboot normally

- Reset SMC and NVRAM

- You can try "mount" in Terminal to see what's actually mounted and how.

- Check your network passwords in Keychain and maybe re-enter them after clearing them.

- In the Terminal you can try some ipconfig switches to try and clear anything that may be corrupted but it's not likely this will help.

Just some ideas.

I had the exact same issue and tried everything! I was told that there is a conflict with Adobe and Mojave. For me, even the latest updates had issues. After two weeks of dealing with the nightmare, I finally reinstalled High Sierra just so I could get work done.

when i do @ex-cop's fix (first tried it in very beginning of oct) i am fine but the recent os updates did not resolve my issues bc after i did them i tried dragging my hard drive back out of spotlights do not search area and the freezing came right back. the good news is when i dragged it back in i have been freeze free again. so if you just need a fix to get some work done def try it. its a drag not having the option to search my stuff but the other way i was as inoperable as you.

I tried pulling all my external drives out of Spotlight. It reduced the time taken before unfreezing (as I mentioned before, as long as I didn't touch any keys or make any mouse clicks) by around 50% (down to around 1.5 minutes). In my case as McAfee Real-time Scan seems to be the critical factor this would make some sense as with the Real-time Scan disabled then changes to Accessibility settings are instantaneous regardless of what I have in Spotlight...

zero, don't believe I had faulty RAM, simply did not have enough to handle the use of high-gigs apps, and or, the APFS system that started with High Sierra. I doubled the RAM from 16 G to 32 G, and doing that has stopped the freezing/re-starting. I am running Mojave 10.14.3 on my late 2015 iMac. Etrecheck and others have noted that Apple will no longer support 32bit apps in future OS. I do have 32 bit Adobe Elements apps, and a few associated with my Fujitsu scanner, and I would assume that they will update those apps to 64 bits in the near future.

i think many people jumping in the forum all saying the same thing is way unlikely

i've had a 2012 mini, a 2013, a 2015, an iphone. none of them every had a problem apple caused. (a few i caused, and one that a computer aide design app caused that the CAD company quickly fixed)

Log in as "Guest" user. see if you still have issues. If not, then your problem is /Users/you/Library, and you should look into how to deal with that without loosing your personal data that might be in there.

If you do still have issues. there are tons of articles on communities about solving freeze issues and what causes them. All of them end up caused by the user or software and very very very rarely the hardware, and never that i heard - apple's os - haven't once seen it confirmed as a cause of what is mentioned all above.

If the above didn't work, factory restore always does (if your hardware isn't damaged). BACKUP YOUR IMPORTANT FILES so that you can restore them. back them up in two different ways (time machine, and maybe thumb too). factory reset your devices. check things are now working. restore your files

etrecheck?

""Payment information collected on the etrecheck.com web site: We use an external payment processor to handle all license purchases. ""

I do not suggest etrecheck because it is not in App Store and users cannot say for sure if the binary does not have viruses in it, nor can Apple help them - because it is not in the App Store. i cannot find the source code i cannot tell you if the binary is repeatable from the source or might contain viruses and that worries me. at one time the etrecheck author posted source however i no longer see it available.

etrecheck is continually pushed in this forum, and it's time the author get in app store (and under it's license, and binary submitted to apple servrers), or stop pushing this "binary" in apple communities

ETRECHECK used to be free. i very much doubt Apple knows the author is continually pushing to sell a product in communities - they likely believe it is still free. (i believe they do not allow software sales pushes in their community help forums, no other company i know of would allow it)

Boot into Safe Mode, Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac, and run for a bit to see if you freeze there. Then reboot normally and check again.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.

If that doesn't help download and run Etrecheck.  Copy and paste the results into your reply.

Etrecheck is a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC and recommended by Apple Support  to provide a snapshot of the system and help identify the more obvious culprits that can adversely affect a Mac's performance.

Use the Add Text button to include the report in your reply:

Before running Etrecheck also assign Full Disk Access to Etrecheck so that it can get additional information from the Console and log files for the report:

Everything has been 100% fine since disabling Spotlight on my internal hard drive. Everyone may be experiencing something similar for different reasons, but for me it was Spotlight.

Disconnect Spotlight / it worked for me. Go to system preferences / spot light / unmark everything, except Contacts, Documents, Folders / then Restart

iMac 27" 24GB 1600 Mhz DDR3

Uninstall CleanMyMac 4. It is a worthless piece of junk that only causes problems on Macs.

Since there are no know viruses for Macs and antivirus apps are totally unnecessary try removing MacAfee according to the developer's instructions and see if the problem clears up.

I had the same problem, and any ram reset did not help a thing. So i did uninstall and reinstall every non-apple software one-by-one and it helped. I do have a strong feeling that the software that will stick to the upper right menu next to clock etc. was causing the problems.

I also disabled and enabled any spotlight index.

For me, what was causing the freezes was power point. Updated and stopped having unexpected behavior..

For me, fortunately it's solved the problem for the moment.

Wish you all good luck and that it doesn't come back and start freezing again.

i've been okay since i dragged the hd into dont search in spotlight per the suggestions i found here at beg of oct but i hopped on this thread today (after updating last night ) to see if its safe to drag it back out and i see it is not.
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i can vouch for this as well, although i'm really hesitant to post that disabling spotlight is actually the solution, because ultimately in the end it's never been confirmed that a spotlight related bug is causing this ....

either way, i dragged all my driver into the exclusion window, gave it about 5 days so far and as of now i haven't seen any beach balling or freezing.

personally, don't use spotlight myself - so it's not a huge impact. it was nice though to just type some search terms in finder and have items within my outlook email show up, but i can do that directly in outlook anyway.