 Yeah. Andrew's having an issue. Okay. So here's my issue. Well, I am having odd behaviors on my 2019 iMac, a 16 gigabyte 3.6 gigahertz core i3. It has a 1 terabyte drive with only about 250 gigabytes used. There are three or four issues that cause problems. Number one, attempts to use the Finder search result to use a Finder search result in the Finder become non responsive and having causing them to have to relaunch the Finder. Number two is attempts to search in the mail app results in the mail app becoming non responsive and having to force quit the mail app. Number three is attempts to print any document to PDF using the printed dialogue about box results in that in the app that created the document to become unresponsive. I'm seeing a theme here. Yeah. Force quit and restart the app or work around for this problem is to open in preview and then save the PDF file from there and that works fine. Number four, attempts to tag a file with a color marker do not work troubleshooting steps that he's gone through are and have been done to resolve this issue resulted in temporary elimination of these issues, but they returned in a matter of minutes or hours. So he's tried SafeBoot. He's tried running Titanium software Titanium software maintenance scripts, which is a great set of scripts and reinstalling Big Sir from the recovery partition by starting with command R. He says I'm left left wondering if there could be some corruption in one or more preference files, but I have no idea which ones might be the culprit. So my first question is, what other repair actions should I take to attempt to resolve these issues on the current iMac and OS? And I think he's also somewhat wondering. Is it time to upgrade? Yeah, exactly. Do I need a new Mac? Yeah. And that was that was sort of where the question came in. I think maybe the title of the subject of the question was, you know, is it time to upgrade to M1? And like, I'll address that first. No, not necessarily. I mean, it's never a bad time, except that it is, right? Like, you know, you it's going to cost you money. All of those things. I don't I wouldn't. Well, listen, I had a 2019 iMac Intel here in the studio similar to what he has. I think mine was a little faster than his, but not like not to the point where it would make a difference for the things he's talking about. And I would still be using that if it weren't, you know, lightning strike this past summer. You know, it's so no, I don't think this is the reason to upgrade. There's a few things I'd try if this remind I know you said you ran titanium software's maintenance scripts, titanium software, the folks that make Onyx. Yep. I would I would make sure that for this scenario, especially that I would go into Onyx, go into maintenance and turn on everything. And that includes rebuilding the mail index. It definitely includes rebuilding the spotlight index. There's something clearly something wrong with spotlight on this computer. At least that's based, you know, you said you're sensing a theme here. It was like, yeah, same, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And, and, you know, you already did the big sir reinstall over the top. That would have been sort of the next thing that I would try if I were there. And failing all of that or having tried all of that because it seems like you might have kind of done the, you know, the obvious things for us, which means either you've been listening long enough or you, you know, you learn these things on your own somewhere, I would, you know, open activity monitor and sort by CPU by, you know, and make sure in activity monitor, you go to view all processes so that you're seeing the entirety of the system and see what it like see what's chewing your CPU in those moments where it's bogged down. It is not uncommon for me. This is, I mean, I'm Dave and I'm a nerd to run with activity monitor open just for these reasons so I can see what's going on or I use, you know, I step menus or, or stats or, you know, one of those things that lives in the menu bar, but it is sometimes even clicking on the menu bar is impossible in those moments because things are so bogged down. So having a window open with activity monitor already running sorted by CPU showing all processes that can be really informative for troubleshooting the exactly this kind of thing. So that's, that's, if I were there, that's what I would do. I don't know. What do you, what do you think, Adam? Yeah, I mean, so he says he's done a reinstall of big serves that I'd be curious if that's just an over the top, like reinstall or is that a complete wipe in reinstall? I mean, no, I think that's the over the top. Yeah, that's the extreme option. And I don't know that you're there yet. At the same time too, I'm wondering, because I still run a 2019 Intel Mac. I mean, mine's a 16 inch MacBook Pro and I've got a Core i7 instead of an i3. I'm curious why he's still on Big Sur. He explained that in a part of, you didn't miss it. I took it out. He's on Big Sur because he had some issues with a file maker database that he didn't want to upgrade. They didn't want to upgrade at the time, but he did say, look, if upgrading to a more recent OS is necessary as part of this, he's like, I don't mind the expense. Yeah, the only reason I'm hesitating on that is because it probably doesn't. If you're having these issues, they're not going to go away by doing an over top install of another operating system. That's kind of what I'm getting at. So like if some of the other recommendations you gave didn't work, depending upon, I mean, if he's just been doing over the top, over the top, over the top since he got the thing, I mean, I fell in this camp where every three, four years I would generally nuke and pave and just restart because you just build up crud over the years and it's a pain in the butt and I hate doing it and it's not fun and I recommend it, you know, only in the most extreme circumstances. So I would try some of these other things like Dave's recommended and if there's not a resolution there, then you might have to bite the bullet and try a nuke and pave, like do all your backups, make sure you've got the multiples and you know where everything is and you know where all your software is to reinstall and all that fun stuff. But yeah.