It would get to the grey apple with the spinning gear wheel underneath it, and sit there for a minute or two. After a few days it's back to the slowness, the spinning wheel on every action, and a version of Photoshop that is pretty much unusable. My 2007 iMac has been a bit sluggish starting up for years, but it was never much of a nuisance. Update: The solution marked as correct, from manu_torres below, is only a temporary fix, sadly.
After using Safe Mode, you can shut down your Mac and then boot into Recovery Mode to see whether the process is successful. Any others with same problem would be reassuring too! 10 seconds later, you need to press and hold the Power button until the startup disks and Options appears.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) running macOS Catalina v 10.15.1Īny help / ideas much appreciated. I've also checked to see if it makes any difference using an external monitor, hard drive, mouse etc. I've tried restarting (MacBook Pro and PS CC 2020) and deleted PS CC 2019 and Bridge 2019 in case those were interfering with it. This has only happened since updating to PS 2020, and I've checked all my preferences (performance etc.) and nothing has changed - they were all successfully imported to the new version. You can see Safe Mode on the login screen. When you see the login screen, you can release the key. Press the Power button and immediately press & hold the Shift key. In the end, everything works fine, but being forced to endure an unwanted wait of 5 seconds every single time you try and do anything is incredibly frustrating. How do I restart my Mac in Safe Mode Click the Apple menu at the top-left corner on the screen. Before the following measures, the Mac was devastatingly slow and taking an age to open apps like Word, Excel, Outlook, Photoshop, Illustrator and then being taken over by the spinning beach ball leading to force quits and loss of work. The only exception seems to be using a Plug In (Exposure X4) which works perfectly and with no delay at all. Here's how we completely fixed a rainbow spinning wheel of death inflicted Mac Mini (late 2012, Server) running Mojave Mac OS. After updating to Photoshop 2020, pretty much every action I try on Photoshop (right clicking on a layer, moving mouse to "edit" menu, creating a new layer, after "save" or "save as", applying a filter, opening a file, closing a file) I get about 5 seconds, sometimes longer, of the spinning pinwheel during which time Photoshop hangs and is unusable.