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 mac and try to switch to Slack -- Slack will be frozen for 30 seconds to several minutes with the colorful spinning pinwheel.
Many people have been experiencing this issue, both recently and in the last several years:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/565240/microsoft-remote-desktop-freezes-constantly-apple
Please look into this, it's a productivity killer. And if there's anything I can grab for you that will help (like a snapshot of a process using the Mac activity monitor) please let me know.
EDIT: I just attached a sample and spindump of Slack (the macOS process that gets the spinning wheel of death after copying text on the remote windows machine).
15 Comments
- reese1000Copper Contributor
Same issue. I average probably 2-3 hours per day on RD with frequent copies in/out of the client. I've had it happen when copying from RD to Chrome and Sublime. Today, I have gotten the beachball of death 4 times. MacBook Pro M3, everything up to date.
- rpulliamCopper Contributor
Yes -- this happens all the time and my brand new MacBook Pro is frozen for minutes. Please fix this Microsoft.