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**RadianWear** · March 21, 2022, 1:59pm

Hey guys, new user here. I have had Siblime installed for about a week. Used it a few times with no issues, no all of a sudden it constantly freezes after being open for only a minute or so. I have installed zero plugins and have not really done anything with it other than create a few documents. Running Big Sur 11.6, any help is appreciated.

**bschaaf** · March 21, 2022, 3:29pm

Does it happen in safe mode? What version are you running?

**RadianWear** · March 21, 2022, 5:31pm

Stable 4126. You mean run the app in safe mode or the mac?

**bschaaf** · March 21, 2022, 11:26pm

The app, hence why I linked to our documentation on that

**RadianWear** · March 22, 2022, 1:03am

I glossed right over the inline url lol. So far it seems to be working.

**RadianWear** · March 31, 2022, 4:27pm

by so far I mean it works in safe mode, but does not work in normal mode.

**bschaaf** · April 1, 2022, 12:53am

That means it’s likely caused by a plugin. You can narrow down which one is the cause by disabling them temporarily using the "ignored_packages" setting.

**RadianWear** · April 1, 2022, 2:33am

It must be one that came as part of the default installation? It was literally a clean install lol.

**bschaaf** · April 1, 2022, 2:36am

Safe mode starts ST in a freshly installed state every time. If that’s behaving differently to normal mode then clearly that’s not using a clean installation. You can revert to a freshly installed state or simply confirm it’s not fresh by following this: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/revert.html.

**RadianWear** · April 1, 2022, 12:22pm

I am telling you, I did nothing other than run the installer, open it and type. Not sure how much cleaner it gets than that :/. I will try the revert anyway to cover bases though. Thanks!

**RadianWear** · April 1, 2022, 6:16pm

also FWIW I checked the directories when going to revert, and the safe mode data directory where I have no issues is identical to my regular directory with the exception of my user preferences file.

**bray** · January 7, 2024, 6:28pm

I am also experiencing frequent micro-freezes of Sublime Text on a Mac. I have no packages installed.

**Captain** · February 19, 2025, 11:52am

I see that this thread is quite old. But still it seems the right place to post for this particular problem.

I have installed Sublime on a new Mac. After a bit of working with it it did not want to start anymore. I did not find any reason for that so I uninstalled and reinstalled it. After that it worked again for a while. In the mid of editing a file I got a “beachball of death”. After waiting for a while with no change, I found this thread. Then I force quit Sublime and started it in safe mode as suggested here. It would come up without problem. Next I exited Sublime again and deleted the data folder as suggested here to reset the installation. I started it again and it would not come up. After a while I force quit again and noted that no new data folder had been created. There was, however the one from safe mode. I deleted that as well and started safe mode again. Now, also the safe mode would not come up! I force quit, and saw that there was a new data folder at least. Then I started safe mode again and - indeed - now it would come up creating the second data folder “Sublime Text (Safe Mode)” again.
So, now I think that something is wrong with the original data folder’s name or location. But what can I do to make it work again?

**deathaxe** · February 19, 2025, 5:14pm

Apple seems not to care much about opengl anymore and so related apps suffer from their bugs.

**bschaaf** · February 21, 2025, 2:07am

The first thing I’d try is rebooting.

**Captain** · February 21, 2025, 7:45am

Indeed, @bschaaf, thank you for your answer!
Although it feels like a Windows suggestion, I had trouble with finder itself shortly after posting here. That forced me to reboot and since then, things work nicely.
I should have posted earlier that my problem with Sublime has dissolved.

Constant Freezing on Mac