Mac is freezing after installing mavericks

My mac freezes (spinning color wheel) after about 10 minute of use. I reboot and it still freezes. Can't move anything, can't close programs or shut down the computer. Any ideas?

Hello Isak,
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much free RAM & free Disk space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?
Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.
If that doesn't help Reinstall the OS.

Similar Messages

I am also having trouble with my cursor freezing after installing Mavericks. Never did it before. I called tech support at Apple and they had me restart computer and mouse together from a complete shut down. So far has seemed to work.

I am having trouble with my cursor freezing between applications after installing Mavericks. Called Apple on my 3 year warranty and opened a case. They suggested a complete shut down of computer and turning off mouse. Then a reboot and turn on mouse. So far iit has seemed to work. Hope this continues??
Hope it helps others.

I think you can solve your problems by removing your AppleID email address from BOTH the Messages setting on your iPhone and the iMessages settings on your Mac.
On iPhone:
Settings > Messages > iMessage > Dissabled
Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > touch the "(i)" < touch "Remove This Email"
On Mac:
Open "Messages" application
Click "Messages menu > Preferences
Click "Accounts"
Select your AppleID account
Under the "You can be reached for messages at" settings, uncheck your AppleID email address and your phone number
Then uncheck the "Enable this account" setting
And lastly, ask all of your friends with iPhones to delete all iMessage conversations (blue bubbles) in their entirety.
To test, send a friend a new text using their phone number (not their email address) and watch the color of the bubble. If it's green then you are using SMS.

Has anyone else had issues with their Mac running slowly after installing Mavericks?

Ever since I installed Mavericks, my MacBook is running waaaaay slower. One of my favorite things about Macs has always been how fast they boot up, but ever since Mavericks, mine takes forever. A lot of programs like GarageBand and Premiere Pro are also running really slowly. They used to work great. Anyone else having this same issue?

The first thing to do is ensure you have adequate backups, because what you describe can be a symptom of impending disk failure.
To help determine the possible causes of this behaviour read the following. None of what follows is intended to fix anything, but it will provide the additional information required to advance troubleshooting. There are four separate parts to it; read everything first.
Boot OS X Recovery by holding ⌘ and r (two fingers) while you start your Mac. At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select Disk Utility. Select your startup volume (usually named "Macintosh HD") and click the Repair Disk button. Describe any errors it reports in red. If Disk Utility reports "The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK" in green then you can be reasonably (though not completely) assured your hard disk is in good working order.
When it finishes restart your Mac and test again for operation. If it's still not behaving as you expect it should, please post the results of EtreCheck in accordance with the following instructions:
Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Read about it here. It contains a link to download EtreCheck. Don't download it from anywhere else (such as may be found by following the results of an Internet search).
Click Open - etresoft contributes to this forum frequently and can be considered a trustworthy developer.
It will take a moment to run as it collects its data.
Copy and paste its output in a reply.
Do not be concerned about anything that says "Problem" or “failed” or anything else that may appear in red.
EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.
When you are finished with EtreCheck, quit the program. It occupies very little space, and you can keep it or drag it to the Trash as you wish.
After completing the above please determine if the problems also occur in "Safe Mode":
Safe Mode or "Safe Boot" is a troubleshooting mode that bypasses all third party system extensions and loads only required system components. Read about it: Starting up in Safe Mode
You must disable FileVault before you can start your Mac in Safe Mode.
Starting your Mac in Safe Mode will take longer than usual, graphics will not render smoothly, audio is disabled on some Macs, and some programs (iTunes for example) may not work at all.
Merely starting your Mac in Safe Mode is not intended to resolve the problem, it's to observe its performance without certain additional components.
To end Safe Mode restart your Mac normally. Shutdown will take longer as well.
System performance problems for reasons that cannot be isolated to any other cause justify an SMC reset. Be sure to read the procedure carefully and follow all the steps exactly as written, even if they seem inapplicable or trivial.

My iMAC sometimes freezes after installing Mavericks.

My iMAC sometimes freezes since installing OSX Mavericks. I have to RESTART to get computer to respond to keyboard and trackpad. Anyone experiencing similar problems?
Thanks in advance for your help.

You have not provided ANY useful information, please carefully read Help us to help you on these forums and then repost. Please do not leave out details.

Mac G4 freezes after installing Airport Extreme

I have a new Airport Extreme card. When I install it in our Mac G4 (FW800), the computer will not start. The LED on the front comes on and the fan starts, then it does nothing. Is this an issue with a faulty card or the computer, and is there anything that can be done to get the computer to start?

Hello! Unplug all the cables (usb/firewire/monitor/a/c etc) and press the PMU button once on the motherboard then reconnect and restart. Below is a pict of the FW800 motherboard to help identify the PMU button. Tom
[IMG]http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3729/fw800logicbd4xu.jpg[/IMG]
Why reward points?(Quoted from Discussions Terms of Use.)
The reward system helps to increase community participation. When a community member gives you (or another member) a reward for providing helpful advice or a solution to their question, your accumulated points will increase your status level within the community.
Members may reward you with 5 points if they deem that your reply is helpful and 10 points if you post a solution to their issue. Likewise, when you mark a reply as Helpful or Solved in your own created topic, you will be awarding the respondent with the same point values.

Dvd ejects after installing mavericks

built in player mac from 2009 , after installing mavericks dvd s eject and do does not work, help!!!

Did you make a backup of your entire system so you can easily revert back to it to check if the drive will still work under your previous system so you could see if this a OS issue or hardware issue?
This is why it is important to backup your entire system BEFORE A MAJOR SYSTEMS UPGRADE/UPDATE!!!
Things could/can and do go wrong during installation of a brand new OS.

My Apple Apps are unresponsive after installing Mavericks. iBooks, Maps, App Store, iCal, etc. will open, but freeze

After installing Mavericks, I found that my Apple Apps (iBooks, App Store, Maps, iCalendar, iBooks, etc) will open but freeze or are none responsive. I have reinstalled Mavericks, did a recovery and reinstall, almost everything that I could find in other discussions. They only thing that helped was the recovery, until I tried to reinstall Mavericks. Someone please help.....

OS X Recovery does restore OS X meaning Mavericks.
Make sure there's enough storage space ...
Click your Apple menu  top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac > More Info > Storage
You'll see Available and Capacity. Make sure there's at least 15% available disk space.
The startup disk may need repairing ...
Launch Disk Utility located in HD > Applications > Utillities
Select the startup disk on the left then select the First Aid tab.
Click: Verify Disk (not Verify Disk Permissions)
If DU reports errors, restart your Mac while holding down the Command + R keys. From there you should be able to access the built in utilities in OS X Recovery to repair the startup disk.
Make sure to back up all important files first before using OS X Recovery.
OS X Recovery does require a broadband high speed internet connection.

My app store is not working after installing mavericks. When I open app store it repeatedly asking me to login with apple ID and to provide User name and Password for proxy authentication in a loop.I am a newbie to mac,Please help me.

My app store is not working after installing mavericks. When I open app store it repeatedly asking me to login with apple ID and to provide User name and Password for proxy authentication in a loop.I am a newbie to mac,Please help me.

Hmmmm... would appear that you need to be actually logged in to enable the additional menu features.
Have you tried deletting the plists for MAS?
This page might help you out...
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/answers/how_to_identify_and_fix_problems_with_the _mac_app_store
Failing that, I will have to throw this back to the forum to see if anyone else can advise further.
Let me know how you get on?
Thanks.

After installing mavericks on mac mini network printers disappeared

After installing Mavericks on my Mac Mini, all printers on the home wifi network disappeared and cannot get them back. Tried deleting and re-installing printers and all updates. Network does not see them from the Mac Mini. Is there some workaround or solution to this? Everything worked perfectly until the Mavericks upgrade.

Was there any evidence of a new or update printer driver at the Epson site for use with Mavericks OS X? Even if so, that may not be enough as the peripherial makers can be steps behind a new & different OS.
I have two Epson printers, one is an all-in-one WF845 (bought at 50% off) and an older Photo Stylus 820, this still makes great prints; both work wireless in different ways. However I have what are essentially antiques in both hardware and software.
Not sure if there are any third party drivers that could help as a fix or a patch for the situation you face, if Epson hasn't a working alternative to being printerless. Too bad that paperless society didn't evolve to save a few trees and thousands of gallons in expensive ink.
Good luck & happy computing!

Mac Mail has stopped wrapping paragraphs 3 days after installing Maverick. How do I fix this?

Mac Mail has stopped wrapping paragraphs 3 days after installing Maverick. How do I fix this?

For the fan issue, see if you can reset the SMC > Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
That may help the restarts as well.

After installing Mavericks stuck on Setting up Your Mac after restart

After installing Mavericks which was extremely slow a number of software applications also had updates. All of this took more than a day. After that my login was slow but everything worked.
The other user's log in got stuck on Setting up your Mac. Then I made mistake of going in under my own log in and changing start-up to go automatically to the other user automatically. Now I can't log myself in anymore and I am totally hung up now on Setting Up Your Mac without any access.

Welcome to the Support Communities! The article below will help you troubleshoot the issue you are having with starting up your Mac:
OS X Mavericks: If your computer stops or delays while starting up
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13976
Shut it down by holding down the power button for about 10 seconds. Hold down the Option key and start up your computer again. Keep holding down the Option key until one or more disk icons appear on your screen. Select one of the disks. After your computer starts up, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Startup Disk, and select a disk.
OS X Mavericks: Login Options pane of Users & Groups preferences
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14415
Cheers,
- Judy

After installing Mavericks, office for mac 2008 doesn't work properly

After installing mavericks, office for mac 2008 is slow, unresponsive a lot of the time, and slows my whole mac down if i want to do other things at the same time. Is there a solution that doesn't involve spending loads of money on a newer version of office for mac?

All Good. Are there any pending updates for MS Office by chance? Just check under the Help menu in the top Menu when you open Word.
I highly recommend you to reinstall the latest Office 2008 update > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36897 Note that Office 2008 is not supported by Microsoft anymore (thanks Mende1 for the link)
Pete

Mac App Store fails after installing Mavericks.

After installing Mavericks i can't see updates in Mac App Store. Also Maps App only shows a plain colour.
Any idea to fix this problem?
Sorry for my bad english!
Message was edited by: Flacote
Everithing works fine after a several system reboots.

After installing Mavericks i can't see updates in Mac App Store. Also Maps App only shows a plain colour.
Any idea to fix this problem?
Sorry for my bad english!
Message was edited by: Flacote
Everithing works fine after a several system reboots.

Why does google chrome freeze and crash after installing mavericks?

I use google chrome and after installing mavericks my chrome started moving slower and slower until it eventually froze. The keyboard becomes locked and the mouse is just a pinwheel. Cannot click on anything or force quit. I end up powering it down and trying to start again. Any reason why?? Thanks.

Try reinstalling Chrome.

Call Of Duty LAN Servers does not work after installing Mavericks on my Mac Air, I need help!

Hey everyone, I have some troubles making LAN servers on Call of Duty 4 and people can't join them after installing Mavericks on my Macbook Air. I need help!
Thx!

Hi,
You don’t install VS2010 on the client PC, then where did the Form Invoice not work? When you run it from another version of VS? Or when you run the application with application.exe?
Based on your description, one form works well, another form does not. I assume that two forms are in two different projects, then please check the .Net Framework used by the two projects. If they are different, you can use the
one used by the Form contact for Form Invoice.
Because this issue is a project issue, I recommend you to consult it on some application forum such as Windows Forms General forum for better support.
VS General Question forum mainly discusses
the usage of Visual Studio IDE such as
WPF & SL designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help
System and Visual Studio Editor.
Thanks,
We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time. Thanks for helping make community forums a great place.
Click
HERE to participate the survey.

Mac is freezing after installing mavericks

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for