System has run out of application memory

You are using Chrome, the most notorious resource hog there is, on a Mac with only 8 GB of real RAM.

Your reports show Chrome and its minions using up the majority of your system resources before you even get started. Consider moving to a browser with a smaller footprint.

the other issue Not showing on your report:

¿what is the date of your most recent backup, and by what method?

A simple restart is all that is needed to free up the memory.

MS Office and Chrome, may require a daly or at minimum a weekly restart to keep thing running smoothly.

Another thing that will also help, is to reduce the number of App Items that you have set to open at Login.

Then only open the App when it is needed and close it when you are done.

Besides remnants of Edge, I also see MS AutoUpdate and MS Excel in Software Installs.

More import, you need to periodically restart the Mac in order to free up RAM.

Restarting is your option, you can do it more often or you can wait until after you get the pop-up.

<< Maybe Apple should figure out how to make Chrome work. >.

Apple did figure out how to make a browser with a lighter footprint that is faster than Google chrome.

It is Safari, and they load it on your Mac free. Firefox is another popular alternative, also faster and also lighter resource use.

<< The backup is on the cloud and it's recent. >>

"On the cloud" is great for sharing photos, but is not a viable backup solution for everything you have. The stuff is not under your control, and is subject to sloppy handling, arbitrary changes in policy, theft, data loss [are they making frequent backups using best practices?], and bankruptcy of the company that holds it. It can easily take three days to restore it at ordinary Internet speeds.

If you do not have a recent local, disk-based backup, your computer is like a ticking Time bomb. You are only one disk failure, one crazy software, or one "oops" away from losing EVERYTHING! Drives do not last forever. It is not a question of IF it will fail, only WHEN it will fail. In addition, you never know when crazy software or Pilot Error throws away far more than you intended.

If you are using another direct-to-disk backup method that you prefer, and you currently have a recent disk-based backup, that is great. If not, you should consider using Built-in Time Machine. Take steps to acquire an external drive as soon as possible. If you buy one, a drive 2 to 3 times or larger than your boot drive is preferable for long term trouble-free operation. Do not pay extra for a drive that is fast.  (You can get by for a while with a "found" smaller drive if necessary, but it will eventually become annoying).

Attach your external drive and use

System preferences > Time machine ...

... to turn on Time Machine and specify what drive to store your Backups on.  It may ask to initialize the new drive, and that is as expected.

Time machine works quietly and automatically in the background, without interrupting your regular work, and only saves the incremental changes (after the first full backup). Time machine backs up every connected drive that is in a Mac compatible format. it can not back up Windows format drives.

Time Machine's "claim to fame" is that it is the backup that gets done, because it does not ruin performance of the rest of the computer while doing its backup operations. You do not have to set aside a "Special Time" when you only do backups. When you need it, your Time machine Backup is much more likely to be there.

How to use Time Machine to Backup or Restore your Mac:

Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support

There is no great wad of stuff to do to get all the benefits of Time Machine.

You connect a large, slow drive, preferably about 2.5 times the size of what needs to be saved, and tell Time Machine to use it to do automatic backups (in the background).

Then go about your work.

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Hello,

I keep getting this error message even though i'm not running many applications. What is the solution