Contactsd process is taking too much memory. It is possibly causing the constant slow down, rainbow rings, and freezing. Is it in of i go to the activity monitor and with it? What is it doing??
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iMac 21.5″, macOS 14.2
In Disk Utility>View, select Show all Devices, highlight the top left entry.
Run Disk First Aid on all items in the left panel, from top down.
You can use Drive DX to possibly get a better view of Drive health…
https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx
Are you running any VPN, Anti-Virus, or Cleaning apps?
We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...
Using EtreCheck - Apple Community
EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info. Give it Full Disk Access.
Give etrecheck Full Disk Access before running.
Thanks for Old Toad’s etrecheck instructions…
Slow iMac 2017 - Apple Community
Thank you. I’ll try this. I am not running anything. Mine is 2019 iMac.
OK, fingers crossed.:)
How to manage Contacts to free up Memory space
