How to Stop Spinning Wheel on Mac Without Losing Work?

How to Stop the Spinning Wheel on Your Mac Computer

Press Option + Command + Escape simultaneously to open the Force Quit menu. From there, you can select a program and click "Force Quit" to end it.

How do you Force Quit a Spinning Wheel on a Mac?

Look at the top-left corner of the screen and click the Apple icon.
Select Force Quit. Or you can also press Command + Alt + Esc .
Select the application you want to force quit. In this case, it's the non-responsive app.
Press Force Quit.

Will the Spinning Wheel Go Away on its Own?

If the app that youre trying to use doesnt respond after about four seconds, most apps will give you this spinning cursor. Sometimes the cursor will go away on its own after a few seconds or even minutes.

How do you Save a Document with the Spinning Wheel?

turn on hidden characters the ¶ button.
click at beginning of document.
scroll to end of document.
click just before the last ¶.*
now do a copy ⌘C
open a new blank document .
now do a Paste ⌘V

How do you Get Rid of the Spinning Wheel of Death?

If the spinning wheel still wont go away or it keeps reappearing, you may want to try restarting your machine. Go to the Apple logo in the upper left corner of your screen and click Restart. If your mouse isnt responding, you can press and hold the machines power button until it powers off.