Beachball at login

[judojustin]

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
ntel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
Samsung SSD 840 250gb

Im getting a beach ball for 6 seconds consistently after putting my password in at the login screen every time I open my mac. Ive tried closing all programs, checked out Activity Monitor to see what else is running (nothing). Pretty annoying since i just upgraded the machine to SSD and 16gb ram AND did a fresh install of sierra. I have all the latest updates. My desktop is clean and i only have 10 icons on my dock. 202.3 gb Free on the hard drive. Any ideas?

 

[CoastalOR]

Do you have FileVault 2 enabled? That can cause a brief delay to logins since you are unlocking the encryption and loading.

 

[fisherking]

check your login items (in the Users & Groups system preference); anything opening there?

 

[judojustin]

Do you have FileVault 2 enabled? That can cause a brief delay to logins since you are unlocking the encryption and loading.

I think my computer only has FileVault (the regular one)
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check your login items (in the Users & Groups system preference); anything opening there?

I just checked this. and there was something that had to do with itunes on there, but i removed it. I'm still getting the beach ball though.

 

[BLUEDOG314]

If you have any reasonably new OS you should be using filevault 2, which I believe started in 10.8.

At boot, do you see the loading bar then enter your password, or do you see loading bar after entering password? If the latter then filevault 2 is turned on.

Either way, try booting in safe mode by holding shift at startup and see if the issue persists and let us know.

 

[judojustin]

If you have any reasonably new OS you should be using filevault 2, which I believe started in 10.8.

At boot, do you see the loading bar then enter your password, or do you see loading bar after entering password? If the latter then filevault 2 is turned on.

Either way, try booting in safe mode by holding shift at startup and see if the issue persists and let us know.

Ok so i rebooted in safe mode where it acted suuuuper sketch. Inopperably slow. Chromd Wouldnt even load this page. Also had a wierd white bar flash across the screen a few times. I hope its not a flashback. Ive been clean for almost 6 years : /

 

[BLUEDOG314]

It will act "sketch" haha, basically only the necessary kernel extensions are loaded, you'll see weird graphical anomalies/distortion.

How recently did you do a fresh install? I assume you installed all your apps via download, cd, whatever and manually migrated over files?

Lastly is the 840 a Pro or Evo? I know there was some weird firmware thing with the Evos. You may want to manually enable trim on it too.

 

[judojustin]

It will act "sketch" haha, basically only the necessary kernel extensions are loaded, you'll see weird graphical anomalies/distortion.

How recently did you do a fresh install? I assume you installed all your apps via download, cd, whatever and manually migrated over files?

Lastly is the 840 a Pro or Evo? I know there was some weird firmware thing with the Evos. You may want to manually enable trim on it too.

Sorry its actually an 850 EVO V-nand

 

[judojustin]

Sorry its actually an 850 EVO V-nand

I enabled trim. Its still doing it. I guess its time to reinstall sierra again : /