Mac freezes when doing simple operations, after update to Sonoma 14.4.1

Nellie Ray Wilson wrote:

Since updating to Sonoma 14.4.1 my Mac has repeatedly stopped to obey commands altogether, in situations like when renaming a file. Have had to restart the computer to get it operative.

Are you saying this is an on going issue...?

please clarify your statement above

After a major update, your Mac needs a certain amount of "awake but not too busy" time to do two things related to Spotlight Indexing.

• recompute the idea of metadata including every word in every document on your Mac, to make spotlight indexing reasonably fast.

You can see if it is done with this part by asking it for a spotlight search. If it is not ready, it will tell you it is not ready, wait a while.

• update your Time machine backups. This depends on first completing the Spotlight index, because that index is used to make backups reasonably fast.

To check if that has completed, use time machine preference pane to check the status of your most recent backup. if it has completed a backup since your software update, the delays and freezes attributable to that cause should cease, and we will have to look for other things.

Hi. I'm having nearly the same problem, except I can relaunch Finder to get control back.

My system has been on and awake, and idle plenty, and my last backup was an hour ago.

The 3 files I had trouble renaming were fresh downloads from Facebook via Safari, and had the characteristic long (48-characters.mp4) filenames.

In trying to recreate the issue for this post, of course, it worked without problem, even though I needed to relaunch Finder 3 times just prior.

It has happened a few times before today, but I wrote it off as user error.