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wurtis Author

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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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Ralph-Johns-UK

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Posted on Oct 15, 2018 11:27 AM

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

 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Sierra)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 MacBookPro 15" 2016 (High Sierra 10.13.x)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 iPhone 6 iOS 11.x and an iPad (2)

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