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iPhone Podcasts app crashes when Low Power Mode deactivates
The Apple Podcasts app for iPhone is one of the buggiest pieces of software I've ever used. It crashes frequently, often failing to remember the last played content (instead it brings up something ...
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XProtect Consistently Eating Tons Of RAM?
I recently updated my 2017 MBP to Ventura. Ever since, my system has been running very poorly
I've noted that 90% of the time, when it is acting up, there is an XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle process ...
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iMac freezes and then "soft" restarts/ resets
This could be a general problem, but I couldn't find my exact issue and no solution so far.
I have an iMac 5k 27" 2019, 3GHz i5, 40GB RAM, Radeon 570X, macOS Monterey Version 12.3.1
In the last ...
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Macbook Pro 2015: Cursor/screen freezes after login, runs only in safe mode
my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) Big Sur 11.2.2 freezes regularly after login. I can only run it in safe mode. I had the problem before the update to Big Sur, I updated it hoping it would ...
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HELP ! Terminal is frozen while copying files in recovery mode : What should I do?
total noob here,
I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro that is finally (almost) dead.
I've managed to use terminal in recovery mode to copy the contents of my User folder to an external drive using the cp ...
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I'm saving debug logs for iTerm2 but why can't I find them?
I can't find the file /tmp/debuglog.txt anywhere using finder.
locate debuglog.txt failed because there is no database, so I've built one using sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com....
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Apps hanging constantly on Catalina
I have apps hanging constantly on catalina.
Right now TextEdit is hanged. I have tried to close a textfile that was being edited and boom, textedit is hanged.
Looking at Activity Monitor I see two ...
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Application bounces and never launches and it is Catalina fault. How to make it launch?
Forgive me for this little rant.
Catalina is Apple's Windows Vista.
Said that, I have 10 to 20 little glitches, hangs and crashes with Catalina per day.
Beyond crashing every time I shutdown, one ...
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MacBook Pro 15" mid 2015 retina randomly freezing, trying to pinpoint the issue (not sleep related)
My MacBook Pro (15-inch, Retina, Mid 2015, fresh install of latest Catalina) freezes randomly. It requires a hard shutdown (power button for > 5 secs) and then it takes a while to turn on. The MacBook ...
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Heavy issues with Finder make iMac unusable
My iMac 2017 (i7 4.2 Ghz, 40 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) ran very well for around two years. Unfortunately, not anymore: Lately, I have severe issues with the Finder and it – honestly! – drives me insane.
It ...
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Determine which app is opening too many files
Sometimes my Mac starts behaving weirdly, a typical symptom being that I can't open certain apps that were working just fine recently. This just happened and I traced this issue to an excess of open ...
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Mac Freezes on Launch
Mac running 10.14.5 is freezing after the login screen each time I reboot. Seeing these stange messages in /var/log/system.log that seems suspect. com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.CloudDocs....
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Mac randomly crashes, main boot volume disappears
Retina Macbook from 2017 running Mojave here.
Every few days, my mac suddenly and randomly freezes (sometimes at times without user input) and crashes. When it tries to boot again, it fails and ...
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System crashes / logs out after visiting specific website
This might be a weird question, but I'm asking for some guidance for how to investigate this more. It's not a reproducible issue, but it happens often enough (e.g. a couple of times a week). Here's ...
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Can a bad battery cause random beachball and other crashes?
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro exhibiting strange, seemingly random, beachball and application freezes. Sometimes so bad the machine has to be force shutdown.
On a recent hardware diagnostic test (hold D ...
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macOS freeze - How to find faulty software or system crash logs?
For 6 months now my Mac freezes 4 to 5 times a week, forcing me to reboot.
The software I run the most when my Mac freezes are: Google Chrome and Molotov.tv.
I don't notice anything wrong in ...
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What sort of logs will help me debug why my mac is regularly freezing?
My 2017 iMac running macOS 10.12.6 has a problem that occurs on a roughly weekly basis where the entire system will gradually freeze. The symptoms are that an application will lock up with the ...
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iOS 11: iPhone freezes/shuts down since update
Ever since iOS 11 came out, my iPhone 6s intermittently "freezes" or "shuts down". It's difficult to phrase it exactly, because I typically see some different behaviours:
The phone freezes and is ...
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Many audio apps hang in High Sierra after an upgrade from Sierra
I'm seeing several apps hang:
iTunes does not load.
Spotify and other audio apps do not play sound.
Chrome and Safari hang when playing videos.
All the apps worked in other versions of macOS but ...
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MacBook Pro Early 2015 freezes and crashes when viewing a presentation at PowerPoint 2016
I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6
I believe this happened for 3 times already. When I view a presentation (Slide Show Mode) at PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, there are times when it lags and freezes; I would ...
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Google Chrome crashes with EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION on Sierra
New iMac running Sierra 10.12.5. 3 days ago suddenly started freezing intermittently for 3-5 minutes at a time. Activity Monitor was showing CPU spikes that corresponded to the freezes. Console ...
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2013 iMac 27" SSD Failure, Power Supply or Both?
I have a late 2013 27" iMac i7, 8GB RAM, 500GB SSD, running the laster version of Sierra 10.12.4 (I think) Two days ago I suddenly got the spinning beachball while browsing in Safari. However, after a ...
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Where are crash logs after a system freeze?
When your entire macOS freezes up and restarts, are there crash logs or core dumps to diagnose the problem? I would in particular like to know which kernel module was active at the time of the crash.
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Late 2015 iMac 27 freezes than crashes and restarts - often and apparently randomly
I purchased this late 2015 iMac 27 with built in 8GB of memory in September of 2016. Shortly thereafter I replaced the original memory with Adamanta 32GB (4x8GB) Apple Memory Upgrade for Late 2015 ...
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kernel_task high CPU consumption and slow Mac
It's not a new problem, I'm facing it for sometime now. My MacBook runs fine all the time but this kernel_task issue occurs whenever it awakes from sleep. No issues with DisplaySleep. I can't put the ...
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Do Macs in a corporate setting behave more erratically? [closed]
I've used a MacBook Pro in my last two jobs (one was circa 2012, and my current one is 2015), and at home I have an iMac (circa 2009) and MacBook Air (circa 2013). At home my Macs perform wonderfully ...
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Need help in figuring out why my MacBook (mid 2012) crashes even after reinstalling ElCapitan
My MB Pro mid 2012 is crashing since already some time quite often.
~2 years ago I put in 16GB Ram and a Samsung Evo SSD, no problems after that. Just recently those "crashes" started to appear.
What ...
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Total screen freeze in El Capitan, but audio keeps playing
Lately I've been having lots of issues with my Mac randomly freezing. As in, multiple times per week. These are the symptoms:
My screen freezes completely. The picture stays on screen and my computer ...
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What happens when PCIe boost circuits are overloaded?
In my understanding, the 2010 Mac Pro is rated for 75W of power for each PCIe slot, plus 75W for each of the two 6-pin boost (aux) circuits. I know it's possible to exceed these limits, because I do ...
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iPad 2 crashes at usage
I'm using an iPad 2 with 32 GB and SIM-Card-Slot. The sim-card-slot is not in use, so it's empty.
Installed is the latest iOS version (no updates available). I don't use any jailbreak (and didn't used ...
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fsck -fy hangs on Checking catalog file + issues booting (MacBook)
Last night my MacBook Pro crashed. This morning I tried turning the computer on, and it had a few issues..
Computer doesn't get past initial boot up loading.
Fan activates loudly while starting up.
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Macbook freezes (keyboard, mouse, audio not working) with external hard drive
I've installed some apps on external hard drive, as I don't have enough space on my macbook's drive. Sadly macbook behaves really weirdly few times a day.
Basically it freezes completely (although ...
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Can a webpage open in Safari crash the whole computer?
I have a Mid-2011 MacBook Air. Everything seems to be working fine, except Safari keeps freezing and stops responding. Sometimes, when Safari freezes, it causes the whole computer to crash and I have ...
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XCode problems - freeze and high memory usage
I had a problem with XCode - during debug session on device randomly see freeze and in Activity Monitor I see that XCode uses a lots of memory (over the physical RAM installed in MBP). I'm sending ...
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Connecting external display turns MacBook screen black
For years, connecting to external monitors on my MBP 9,2 (10.10.4) worked just fine (except the occasional crash). Until yesterday, where I had three crashes in quick succession. Now when the display (...
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Keychain popup freezes my safari when I visit specific sites
So I'm usually a chrome user, but ever since buying a macbook pro, I switched to safari because chrome drained my battery like mad and it generated too much heat. The transition wasn't bad, I actually ...
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iMac freezes complete, except mouse pointer. What can I do?
Recently, I've noticed a strange behavior on my iMac (Yosemite 10.10.4, Late 2009).
Everything freezes completely - it's totally unresponsive. HOWEVER, I can continue to control the mouse pointer ...
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How can I fix constantly resetting HD 4000 GPU?
Problem:
My MacBook Pro started showing graphic issues. For a little bit more than two years the system was running without any major issues, but now it is almost unusable. Last month a few of those ...
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Brand new MacBook Pro flagship behaving strangely
Today i got the newest available MacBook Pro flagship model. After setting up some basics, installing Photoshop, JRE, XAMPP and NetBeans, i started to use the machine a bit, doing some basic coding.
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Yosemite 10.10.3 crashing often
I've only been using my MBPr for a few weeks and it's been crashing often. It'll freeze and then either restart on its own, or what's often the case, need a hard reset. It started doing this on the ...
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OS X Yosemite Crashing Frequently (Safari?)
I've got the problem that my Systems is often freezing and than shutting down or restarting. I have a Mid-2012 Macbook Pro Retina and before Yosemite I've never had such problems.
Just while writing ...
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Have the Retina MacBook Pro GPU Hangs been fixed?
I have an early 2013 15-inch retina Macbook Pro running the latest stable version of Yosemite on which I've encountered the fabled GPU hang-ups, detailed in this question. I'm almost certain I have ...
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How to diagnose repeated OS X hang / spinning ball of death?
I got this error with everyday tasks. I tried verifying disk, permission. fsck -fy - files has been modified, then disk is ok. I repaired keychain.
Do you have any idea what causes this problems? ...
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Starting Preview without opening previous PostScript documents
I'm running the latest version of OS X and Preview is hanging whenever I try to start it.
It attempts to open the documents which I previously had open, which is ~10 PDFs and ~3 PostScript files, and ...
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Kernel Panic unlocking an unlocked mutex or spinlock on MacBook 2008
My MacBook 2008 froze and I had to press the power button. What does all this mean? This is the report I got back:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1640806 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 1
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Bluetooth not available anymore
I have a Macbook Pro (late 2011) with the latest OS X (10.9.4) and once in a while the Bluetooth subsystem disappears and the system hangs for a few seconds every ~10 minutes. The icon in the menu bar ...
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Periodic freezes - possibly related to CoreAnimation?
For many months, I have experienced occasional lockups on my Macbook Pro 8,2 running OSX 10.9.2. Actually, I had what I assume was a related problem in 10.8. I have the 2.3GHz Core i7 processor, 8GB ...
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rMBP Late 2013 crash without log and have to restart by power button
I bought rMBP around November last year.
As I open Chrome, it crash without log.
I can't move the mouse, and the mms stream player keep working.
The only solution is to restart it with power button.
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Crashs of MBP 13 mid-2010 (MC375LL/A)
I am using a a MBP 13 mid-2010 (MC375LL/A) with the following characteristics
MacBookPro 7,1
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6GHz
RAM: 8Gb (2x4Gb in replacement of the 2x2Gb)
HDD: WD Blue 500Go 5400trs/min (in ...
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Finder Bus Error 10/Finder freezes and doesn't open a new window
About a month ago, my MacBook Pro from 2008 running OSX Lion 10.7.5 booted up incredibly slowly. I reset the PRAM and removed and put back the battery and that issue resolved itself but after that ...
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