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Accountsd: How to Fix High CPU Usage on Mac
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had this on and off in all versions of catalina. It seems to be triggered if you're offline or on a very slow network when mail tries to sync/fetch/replicate/push. Once it happens, force quitting mail, then killing the daemon often will work.
There's a lot of stuff in the new OSs that break when you're not on cupertino-level terabit level connections they seem to be designing for
There's a lot of stuff in the new OSs that break when you're not on cupertino-level terabit level connections they seem to be designing for
I'd lay dollars to donuts that it was the reboot and not the reset that did it.
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Big sur is better?
ah MacOS finally getting the svchost.exe pattern of behavior 10 years later...
I've been having horrible performance issues with Mail and accountsd ever since upgrading to Catalina.
I had to set Mail to only fetch mail manually and just fetch new mail when I need to. Otherwise, Mail is completely unusable if I don't, and will take a big % of CPU much of the time. Maybe MacRumors will get Apple to address it.
I had to set Mail to only fetch mail manually and just fetch new mail when I need to. Otherwise, Mail is completely unusable if I don't, and will take a big % of CPU much of the time. Maybe MacRumors will get Apple to address it.
Ah yes. It has returned...
honestly though, after holding off on updating from Mojave on my Mac pros until this summer my biggest issue are the changes to Time Machine.
before you could open up mail or contacts and then Time Machine to recover deleted emails or a few deleted contacts. Not anymore. If you need to recover a contact you need to use iCloud via a web browser and recover the most recent back up - no longer can you recover a single contact or just a few.
I found a workaround for the contacts issue. If you keep a copy of your contacts on your Mac as well as iCloud you can recover contacts with Time Machine. I posted a thread on this in the forum but essentially copy all of your contacts and save them in a vcf file. Then turn off iCloud contacts. This will create an “On My Mac” section. Import the contacts from the vcf file. Then re-enable iCloud contacts.
now you’ll have local contacts as well as iCloud contacts so you can recover any contacts that you deleted with Time Machine. I simply linked each of the contacts together so that each contact shows it listed as iCloud and on my Mac.
this hasn’t changed for Big Sur either. I honestly don’t know what is going on with Apple as Time Machine has always been my go to since day one. I don’t know why they removed the ability to restore deleted contacts and emails.
honestly though, after holding off on updating from Mojave on my Mac pros until this summer my biggest issue are the changes to Time Machine.
before you could open up mail or contacts and then Time Machine to recover deleted emails or a few deleted contacts. Not anymore. If you need to recover a contact you need to use iCloud via a web browser and recover the most recent back up - no longer can you recover a single contact or just a few.
I found a workaround for the contacts issue. If you keep a copy of your contacts on your Mac as well as iCloud you can recover contacts with Time Machine. I posted a thread on this in the forum but essentially copy all of your contacts and save them in a vcf file. Then turn off iCloud contacts. This will create an “On My Mac” section. Import the contacts from the vcf file. Then re-enable iCloud contacts.
now you’ll have local contacts as well as iCloud contacts so you can recover any contacts that you deleted with Time Machine. I simply linked each of the contacts together so that each contact shows it listed as iCloud and on my Mac.
this hasn’t changed for Big Sur either. I honestly don’t know what is going on with Apple as Time Machine has always been my go to since day one. I don’t know why they removed the ability to restore deleted contacts and emails.
I am running the Big Sur beta on a mini and have not seen the problem.
weird... I stuck with Mojave and don't have this issue.
Yet another reason I'm glad I stayed on Mojave.
Yet another reason I'm glad I stayed on Mojave.
I did the Terminal solution and ended with the impossibility to log into iCloud or add any mail account to my computer. So it's not a great solution. Thankfully the Terminal Workaround moves and not delete the file Accounts4.sqlite and other related, so it's possible to restore them back to their folder and be able to log again to iCloud, but Apple should do something about it. My laptop ( MacBook Pro 16" ) was "burning" while these process was forcing the CPU. Dangerous ( and pretty sure that if that happens, Apple is going to was their hands, and not because of the COVID ).
I had this problem yesterday after updating to 10.15.7. Logging out and logging back in to iCloud fixed it.
Yeah, well…. If it wasn’t for Catalina, Mojave wouldn’t seem so nice, so be thankful.
Nothing like buying a tricked out MBP and having it "reduced to rubble" by Apple's lack of attention. I long for the days when Apple products simply "just worked". Never again will I spend top dollar on an Apple laptop computer, or for that matter, any of their other products.
The worst is that Apple does not seem to care one bit. If Apple were just to acknowledges, communicate and address issues promptly, things would be okay for me. My experience is that they are slow, quiet and hardly ever fix anything. If they do, they will only do so for some upcoming release, forcing everyone to update. Mismanagement if you ask me. One might expect more from one of the richest companies. I guess money makes blind. And deaf. And Stupid?
Haven’t “upgraded“ to Catalina yet, although my reason is that I haven’t made time to go through my list of 32-bit apps to figure out what I need to replace and what can go.
"Small number of users" is a standard issue corporate PR line meaning "it's a common bug we didn't test for"