messages hang or beach ball

Hi Folks.

I'm on Mojave, and still, Mac MESSAGES hangs or beach-balls constantly. First of all it takes >4 minutes to launch and allow any interaction at all, then whenever I try to use it, beach balls constantly appear.

Any advice?

Kurt

MacBook Pro

All the RAM it can take

Lots of Disk space.

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 11:11 AM

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1 reply

Oct 15, 2018 11:27 AM in response to wurtis

HI,

Go to Contacts app > Preferences > Accounts and restrict the number of Accounts it is trying to sync with to 1 (one)

7:27 pm Monday; October 15, 2018

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