Has anyone experience recent beach balling at startup with macOS Sequoia. It takes about a few minutes to stop and start using it.
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"stop and start using it"... not sure what you mean.. are you seeing beach balling loading the login screen or loading the desktop after logging in? Some more specifics would be helpful.
after logging in, I have to get up and walk away to let it finish the beach balling and actually use my mac, is what Im saying. There is nothing in allow in background running. My fusion drive is 5-6 years old. I have applecare on this machine. Until the drive goes belly up or apple stops support it. So I will have to live with it until then.
I did find through etracheck that a runaway user process is consuming over 90 perfect the CPU and points to an apple file called BackgroundShortcutRunner. There’s nothing in it. Any thoughts?
thank for your input.
I tried looking for it, in activity monitor it shows up as "Background task management." I don't see it as your doc says. I don't know if I told you that I am running macOS Sequoia, the latest one. The thing is what gets me is I did a reinstall, using Apple's method of resetting the Fusion Drive, using recovery to re-install macOS Sequoia, put all my data back. I've already ruled out a malware. Im right back to same problem of a few minutes of logging in and have to wait about 5 minutes for everything to settle down. There is nothing in "Allow in Background" pane. Apple support is telling after a four hour deep diagnostic system, at the Apple Store that the Fusion Drive many have trouble keeping up and showing signs of slowly petering out. Since I am under Applecare+ for Mac, two things, wait for the drive for completely fail, they'll will replace it. Possibly get a free new superseded system, if the support starts to run out. Thank god, I have Time Machine and have everything backed up. Sorry for the long response.
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I found the BackgroundShortcutRunner files (see screenshot attached). Use a find files app to locate it. I don't know how to deal with these files. I don't have it in Activity Monitor. Can I safely delete these files? Need a little help. This is the file(s) that is eating up my CPU according to Etracheck. I read the attachment you sent. still a little foggy.
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Come to find out that BackgroundShortcutRunner controls the wallpaper background. It enables and disables by a slider under quick action.