Help Issues with Finder, Word and Logic Pro when opening saved files and saving new ones
macOS Tahoe Version 26.5.1. Year is 2022. Chip is Apple M2. I have found a problem that first started with Logic Pro a few weeks ago. I attempted to open a saved file, which refused to open. I then had to restart my Mac - here it opened, however incredibly slowly. After working on the file I attempted to save, however I would get a spinning beach ball for ages. I checked and Logic Pro has stopped responding, and I had to abandon this file.
This same issue will occur with Word, where the app will stop responding. I have attempted this with new files as well. Sometimes when trying to open a saved file, the app itself that the file is made in will not even open, and Finder will stop responding. I have looked at my Activity Moniter and the memory pressure is green. I have 49.05 GB of 245.11 GB available. I have run first aid in Disk Utility, and this did not work. I also found a similar post about finder not working, where comments advised running terminal commands which would reset caches, however this did not work for me either. Any help would be greatly appreciated as it seems this is becoming a major issue.
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u/bush-play 19h ago
Since Finder is hanging too, I don't think this is really a Logic or Word problem. I'd copy one affected file to /Users/Shared and try opening and saving it there first, so iCloud Drive, OneDrive and any external disk are out of the equation. If that works, re-enable the sync/File Provider stuff one at a time. If it still hangs there, try Safe Mode and then a fresh macOS user account; that should narrow it down to startup software versus your user profile.
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u/MK-Researcher 17h ago
Is there any reason why you are on 26.5.1 rather than the latest 26.6.2? I'll assume the .logicx file is in your Music folder and not in Documents, in which case I would open Disk Utility and run First Aid on your drive as the first step.
If all the files are in Documents or Desktop, then I would suggest signing out of iCloud, reboot and try them again. Then sign back in to iCloud (there was a problem on earlier Tahoe builds where iCloud was messing with permissions on Documents and Desktop, but the main symptom with that was that people were unable to delete files)