spinning beach ball for some apps after upgrade 13.7.1 to 14.7.1

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spinning beach ball for some apps after upgrade 13.7.1 to 14.7.1

after a direct upgrade from 13.7.1 to 14.7.1, i get the spinning beach ball for opening and saving documents in some apps, namely microsoft office m365 (v16.90.2, latest) and bbedit (v15.1.2, latest, app store build). the phenomenon seems to root in some misconfiguration in privacy settings regarding files and folder access and full disk access. excel for instance asks for access granting to a file on the desktop despite having full disk access. bbedit just spinns the ball for 5-10 seconds before opening the target file.

am i alone?

regards,

raoul.

Mac Studio, macOS 14.7

Posted on Nov 5, 2024 6:47 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 12, 2024 1:32 AM in response to Raoul Schaffner

Hi,

no you are not. For me it was only updating from 14.7.0 to 14.7.1 but one of the disk related security updates seems to have broken something.

I always get a "this app needs access to this location" warning when opening files from the synced onedrive folder. So I don't know if it affects more than ms office apps because in my personal case it affects word, excel and ppt.

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Answer 2

Nov 6, 2024 2:43 PM in response to Raoul Schaffner

Similar here. I have 14.6.1 and using MS Word on documents that are Autosaved to OneDrive. Seems like I have to wait 5 seconds after every editing change.

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Answer 3

Nov 13, 2024 11:04 PM in response to Raoul Schaffner

thank you for your replies. i finally managed to upgrade to 15.1 after resolving app incompatibilities. the privacy settings problems mentioned before were solved by that upgrade.

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