7/31/2023 0 Comments Onedocs mac spinning wheel![]() If it works, you can restore your backup and see if that causes the problem to return.Ī decent computer repair shop should be able to diagnose and repair the iMac for you, if you don't want to chase the problem down. If it still has the beach ball, the disk is almost certainly bad. If you make a Time Machine backup, you can erase the disk, install a fresh OS, and see how it works. If the disk is bad, this may not complete and may leave the iMac non-functioning until the disk is replaced. The installer should move the old OS, install a new copy, and then move your settings and data back. You could also try re-installing the OS if no problem is found with the disk. It should give you an option for Disk Utility run First Aid and see if it tells you anything. OR try one of the other key combos, to boot to a network install-this takes a while to load. It may also work on WiFi, but wired is preferred. If you have wired internet, shut the iMac down, and then press the power button while holding the "option" and "D" keys down. I would back up anything valuable to you ASAP, if you have not done so. If you see this mostly when you are doing something that requires disk access, it's most likely a failing disk, as others have said. It's telling you the computer is doing something and you have to wait. The "spinning wheel" AKA "Beachball of Doom" is technically a "Busy Cursor". On THREE occasions, once on a Mac, and twice on Windows machines, I have had symptoms like yours-machine becomes a misery to use because of lock-ups with spinning progress indicators over and over, had a third-party S.M.A.R.T utility report issues, replaced the drive, and restored normal functioning. I don't want to take the responsibility of recommending better S.M.A.R.T reporting software. If it says "Verified," unfortunately, you have learned nothing, because Apple is very. If it says "Failing" your drive is failing, and you have learned something. It will probably say "Not Supported" meaning the drive does not report S.M.A.R.T. Look down a long list of characteristics for S.M.A.R.T status. This probably won't help but you should do it and it only takes a minute: Applications folder, Disk Utility, select the drive, right-click, Get Info. ![]() This absolutely can be a sign of a hard drive that is starting to fail, though it can have other causes. ![]() As someone else suggested, you could make a Genius Bar appointment at your local Apple Store and have them verify whether you do/don't have a hardware issue. I like SSDs, but changing disks in an iMac is no easy task given the way they are constructed. I would recommend continuing to investigate what application(s) are not responding when you get the spinning wheel. I strongly suspect your problem is software rather than hardware. I'm typing this on an even older iMac (2009, 1TB spinning HDD, 16GB memory) and I never see the spinning wheel. I used Time Machine to back up my existing drive, and restored it after the swap, that part was very easy. I think the 1 TB SSD cost me < $100 on a black friday sale (I think it was in 2019), and I paid another $40 or $50 to swap it out. I would highly recommend going this route. I swapped it out for a 1TB SSD (Samsung) and my system is like new now. I have an older Mac Mini with a 1 TB HDD, same DRAM config as you (and was practically unusable). If so, that is almost certainly the cause of the spinning wheel. I am guessing Hard Drive, from the fact that it is a 2015. I found it interesting to see all the Unix type commands used outside of the normal user shell, which most of us think is the Apple OS. ![]() I believe the cost replace the hard disk was about $180 and took 3 days. I changed Gmail to forward to his prime email account instead of Apple Mail retrieving them, which solved the archiving problem. I disabled the Gmail account on the I-MAC and found the time machine recovery of that account had restored all of the Gmail messages just fine. He had always had issues with the Gmail account sending messages to archive folders. The I-cloud re-sync of Email had issues with with a GMAIL account saying it had 32 million message to re-sync that would take days to perform. The time machine restore was lengthy, but all restored fine. They installed a new disk and everything has been fine since. Although the disk diagnostics had found no errors, the tech said only a defective disk would fail at reformatting. They decided to try a disk reformat and reload, where the computer hung during the reformat. I took it into a Genius Bar where they re-ran the same tests, where reported the issues could be clearly seen, that things were taking way to long to process. Apple remote support ran many tests including disk checking, but all diagnostics came back clean. Additionally, re-boots could take 15-20 minutes. Any ideas on getting rid of spinning wheel. ![]()
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