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Reply to Xcode 12 spinning beach balls all the time
Same here (Xcode 12.4, 12D4e) , especially immediately after starting up my computer (fastest Mac mini 2018) which is switched off during the night. It occurs to me: • beach balls occur even without any file or project open. Xcode just stops responding while seemingly doing nothing. No disk, CPU or network activity can be seen. • if I wait it out (for instance 10 minutes) the beach balls will eventually finish and Xcode continues to work as normal. • if I wait it out (which is unbearable), the beach balls mostly will not come back until the next morning. • if I force quit Xcode, sometimes a couple of times in sequence, the problem is gone in most cases. • when Time Machine is doing stuff, beachballs take much longer to disappear. • unpairing all devices and re-adding them does not seem to help. • not using network but only lightning connections for devices does not seem to help. • cleaning out all caches, derived data, etc does not help. It's just terrible. I am afraid to open a new project or switch projects in Xcode because that seems to mean another early lunch break. I am afraid to open a storyboard or nib file because that may trigger another forced 10 minute wait.
Mar ’21