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spinning ball prevents use of mouse for anything

Everything I try to do using the mouse - typing or anything else, the apple multi-colored ball starts to spin and won't allow me to do anything for several seconds. What can I do to keep this from happening continually?

Posted on Apr 7, 2020 11:54 AM

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Posted on Apr 7, 2020 2:15 PM

How full is your Hard Drive?


Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?


EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck


Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report...

https://pastebin.com/


Or use the paperclip at the bottom of a Reply to attach the full report here. :)


Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck.

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Apr 7, 2020 2:15 PM in response to joann245

How full is your Hard Drive?


Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?


EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.

http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck


Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report...

https://pastebin.com/


Or use the paperclip at the bottom of a Reply to attach the full report here. :)


Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck.

spinning ball prevents use of mouse for anything

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