Mac Os Mojave freezes

I'm not sure if this is the source of the problem but ... I was getting the same problem at least daily since I upgraded to Mojave, whether I was using my MacBook or not! After the last reboot I killed Google drive and it's been 2 days since my last crash, so I can't say for certain if this is the source of the problem, but did I noticed that in the report provided by a.soon that Google drive is also running. It would be interesting to know if this is a common application.

It makes sense that this is the problem as it is a process running in the background, which would explain why it appears to be random.

I have a late 2012 MacBook Air i7 256gb 8gb RAM and Safari began freezing upon launch. To unfreeze quit Safari then go to Preferences/Spotlight/uncheck Bookmarks & History. So far this has unfrozen Safari, although without assistance of Spotlight. I will update if I find other functionality issues.

My Freezes occurred June 2019+ because of outdated NVidia/CUDA drivers from when I used an external GPU prior to updating to Mojave (10.14.5).

The only app that really gave a clue was MS Word - a symptom being a scrambled window bar and Word seemingly froze the entire system.

Solution was to update Word and remove the NVidia drivers (which are no longer in use).

LOL!!! I thought my post referred to the post I answered... I disabled spotlight. I have been battling this freezing, cursed beach-ball-of-death, slow movement and "no more memory" issue for days, ever since I upgraded to Mojave. Now my little Mackster is back up to it's delightful efficient self! YAY!

So, have you posted it here?

The more eyes on it the better chance of finding issues.

Have you looked in console? write down the times you machine freezes & thaws occur. Look in the console log at that time.

Run activity monitor in a side window and you maybe able to catch the slow running apps.

R

I was having the same trouble, but then I upgraded from FontAgent 8.1.5 to 8.3.3 and all of the issues seemed to disappear.

Thanks for your hint! With my MBP Mid 2014 i had the same Problem. Updating to 10.14.3 beta also solved my crashing Problems. Since updating yesterday all seems to be fine again...

going back to high sierra was easy enough, except for restoring my apps and data.

havent seen as frequent beach balling yet and so far on 24 hrs without this issue.

For me is seems fixed by not using this old usb mouse.

thoughts anyone about trying this in terminal? sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

i got it from http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/10/disable-or-enable-spotlight-in-mac-os-x-lion/

Ok, so I had a freeze again yesterday... It was all good for literally weeks.

It HAS to be connected to network shares being mounted. I almost never use network shares, 2 days ago I did and had it mounted overnight as I was downloading a bunch of stuff and the network share was mounted. The machine went to sleep a couple of times, the share was still mounted. Nothing open from there, just mounted... and yesterday evening, it happened again.

I tried to unmount the network share but couldn't.

Also tried to go in Terminal and do a "sudo umount /Volumes/" (and here I pressed Tab to see the names, but terminal freezed at that point).
Same thing if I typed in the exact path to the shares.

Chrome ceased to load any webpage, they were all just spinning and spinning forever...

I could however ask a restart from the menu and force quitting apps and the finder... it eventually restarted, I didn't have to force power shutdown.

The share was an SMB share, as I am no longer able to mount AFP shares since Sierra... That is another messed up part of the OS... you can try to mount one, but as soon as you mount an AFP share, this exact same lockup occurs. Maybe another hint?

So this is weird... maybe APPLE COULD FINALLY START TO INVESTIGATE THIS AS IT IS CAUSING SO MUCH DISCOMFORT AND PAIN!!!

Sorry for the rant.

This was supposed to be a reply to a prior post that stated a possible memory leak in spotlight. I added my Mac HD by dragging and dropping it into System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy. Of course you now have the problem that Spotlight is useless as you cannot find anything on your hard drive. This is a real irritant. I really need to stop upgrading early on. Nothing but problems and headaches!

sooooooo after dragging my HD out of use in spotlight right when ex-cop suggested it last month---i was all good and yesterday decided to try a mini test i dragged the HD back out and only checked files documents and contacts on the options and today had the first 2 hour long freeze since i first did ex-cop's fix so i dragged the HD back into dont search and keeping my fingers crossed i'll be freeze free but i am pretty bummed not to be able to search my stuff and with all of you feeling this is taking wayyyyy too long to get a real fix

i am not the discussion starter, but can give the several steps i have done so far and give some info about history:

this issue started before mojave, either from sierra or high sierra.

random lockup occurs irrespective of whats running, ie it can happen with some apps running or no apps running

unresponsive to the point where a force restart once or more a day is necessary.

have tried the following:

soft reinstall of mojave from recovery partition

full ssd wipe and reinstall by apple store

(a corrupted user account is not in question because issue continued after clean reinstall of OS, if apple store had done it right).

full hardware diagnostic by apple store

can occur with NO 3rd party apps installed in macos

limited success with disabiling spotlight, most recently experienced the issue again after populating all my drives in spotlight privacy section.

have noted that i installed the latest public beta as of yesterday (from the official release path —> beta path for first time), but too soon to notice if issue was eliminated.

noticed that before going beta, i had a bunch of apfs warnings in first aid, but exit code comes back 0 and du does not ultimately fix any warnings or errors on the apfs volumes i check in first aid.

no issues with an existing hfs+ partion, no issues with an existing ntfs partition.

gpt looks ok, no issues booting to either OS either with startup selection in prefs or with option key during boot.

add to all this clearing the nvram and smc controller.

i think i tried pretty much everything including digging thru console to find the exact time entries where i force restarted and cannot gain insight into whether the issue is process related, kernel panic, memory leak, etc ....

considering this discussion was open in october i think this should have been resolved by now.

Even though it is far from what I would have wanted, I have spent the las 2 days working very hard to prepare my mac for downgrading to High Sierra. Hours of investigation looking for all data locations so that I can retrieve it from the external HD after I wipe my Mac and start from scratch (the auto backup I have is from the Mojave days, so no quick restore options). Had to create a hacked install bootable High Sierra disk, cause Apple made it near impossible to do the easy way. Had to read countless pages and track down the obscure folders and files I had to back up in order to restore my multiple mail accounts, their contents, my previous joined networks and their passwords (haven't found that one yet), my bookmarks for 3 browsers, the folders I keep in my finder windows' sidebar, converting stickies to notes so that they sync via iCloud, applications on my dock and their order, widgets, make a list of serial numbers for all purchased apps for reinstalling, iTunes playlists, take screenshots of System Preferences, etc. All because of plunging into Mojave without knowing that a critical, unaddressed bug would render my Mac unusable. And all of this, while having my Mac go to the black screen of panic and restart itself every so often. Not nice, and certainly discouraging for the next time I have to upgrade again. So this is goodbye, my Mac's brain will be erased after this post. If I shall appear here once again, you'll know I successfully managed to make it back to High Sierra.