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ckline_oz
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Dec 05, 2023
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Remote Desktop for Mac 10.9.4 often causes spinning wheel of death when copying from Windows machine

Starting in the last version or two, I frequently get the "spinning wheel of death" after using Remote Desktop for Mac to copy from the remote Windows client. This manifests when I switch back to the...
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DamonDCD
Copper Contributor
Nov 10, 2025

For anyone on this thread - how many of you are running a single, simple RDP session versus multiple RDP sessions?

I'm not 100% sure yet, but it seems to me that the problem is much more likely to happen if I have more than one session open.

I used to have two sessions open most of the time, and I would come across the bug much more frequently.  Over the past few months I've switched so now, 99% of the time, I have a single, full-screen RDP session open to a full desktop.  Once in a while, I have to open a second session to another machine - this could be a RemoteApp (for testing), could be a second windowed and/or full-screen RDP session.  Sometimes this session is only open for a few minutes, sometimes I leave it connected for days.

I think the problem appears to happen more frequently when I have had more than one session open at a time?

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    vivacz
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 10, 2025

    I was working with multiple open RDP connections at the same time. So maybe yes. I had to switch to another RDP solution because this was no longer acceptable on my part.