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What to do about spinning beach ball? - JEBB - 02-23-2019

Is it fault of Mojave macOS 10.14.3 or my 2012 13" MBP with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD. It was even slower until I did a safe boot. What else might help? Thanks.


Re: What to do about spinning beach ball? - Sarcany - 02-23-2019

Retina? Wouldn't expect it to be all that much slower than HS.

Non-retina? With SSD, probably tolerable.

I wonder about 3rd party software. You'd be surprised what can slow down your Mac. I found that an old version of MenuMeters was beachballing a Mac this week.


Re: What to do about spinning beach ball? - space-time - 02-23-2019

Beach? Sunscreen!!!


Re: What to do about spinning beach ball? - JEBB - 02-23-2019

It was a bit slow with High Sierra but Mojave has really slowed it down. It is non-Retina.


Re: What to do about spinning beach ball? - rich in distress - 02-23-2019

If the update was recently done, I’d say leave it on for a day or two.
New systems have some analyzin’ to do, so it can update libraries, caches and whatnots.
If it’s supported, it should work good enough.
Good luck!


Re: What to do about spinning beach ball? - Rolando - 02-23-2019

rich in distress wrote:
If the update was recently done, I’d say leave it on for a day or two.
New systems have some analyzin’ to do, so it can update libraries, caches and whatnots.
If it’s supported, it should work good enough.
Good luck!

Agree. When I first upgraded to Mojave, it was dog slow and crashed a couple of times. I left it running overnight one night, and the next day it was fine! 2012 MBPro, 15", non retina


Re: What to do about spinning beach ball? - testcase - 02-23-2019

I've recently been getting SpinningBeachBalls on my 13" MBP (w/SuperDrive & 2 USB3 & FW800 ports). It is running Mac OS Mojave 10.14.3, with the 2.9GHz i7 processor, 8GB RAM and an OEM 750GB HD. WTF Apple?????


Re: What to do about spinning beach ball? - hal - 02-23-2019

do a safe boot


Re: What to do about spinning beach ball? - NewtonMP2100 - 02-23-2019

.....balls.....to the wall......


Re: What to do about spinning beach ball? - ka jowct - 02-24-2019

I am not sure why you guys installed Mojave. If you cloned before installing it, it should be easy enough to revert to something that worked better.

Testcase, part of your problem is the OEM hard drive.