Macbook Pro slow to shut down.

Hunter80 on 28/10/2014 - 20:29

Hi,
I have macbook pro:
- 17 inch, late 2011 model
- 2.4 GHz, i7
- 8GB Ram
- 1GB Graphics card
- 256GB SSD drive, more than half currently free
- Running OSX Yosemite.

From last month or so the shutdown process has started taking about 2 minutes. It used to be 2-4 seconds before.

Even startup takes about 20 sec and it used to be less than 10 sec.

Not that it makes a lot of different, but I know its just something as simple as a program not shutting down gracefully.

I think one of the reason maybe that I installed bootcamp partition but got rid of it after couple of days via bootcamp option.

I have cleared cache and don't have many start-up programme either. Always try to shut the apps as I go.

Any help/assistance/suggestion will be appreciated.

Computing

Comments

  • [Deactivated] on 28/10/2014 - 20:39
    -5

    In before the 'Macs are shit, serves you right, should have bought a Dell, I can build you a desktop for $50'

    • Hunter80 on 28/10/2014 - 21:22

      Thanks, I will create a forum under "Need help to build a Dell Desktop", if I ever have to get a good Dell desktop.

  • ozhunter on 28/10/2014 - 20:48
    +1

    Did you clean install Yosemite?

    • Hunter80 on 28/10/2014 - 21:21

      I just updated from App Store, have I missed something?
      By clean install, Do you mean a fresh install from a disk? Or else?

  • ShamelessBargains on 28/10/2014 - 21:00

    Yosemite has significantly longer boot up and shut down times I have found. Takes a minute to boot up my Air when it used to take 14 seconds. Clean install might help too.

  • rockman117 on 28/10/2014 - 23:33

    Why bother shutting down? I just put my MBA to sleep and takes 1sec to open

  • RockyRaccoon on 29/10/2014 - 06:15

    Get AppleJack (free) and install, then run Applejack when you boot up.

    It repairs a lot of things like caches and permissions, which may be corrupted.

    More details here

    http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15667/applejack

    Download here

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack/files/AppleJack/Ap…

  • Hunter80 on 29/10/2014 - 07:28

    Can it be because I installed Bootacmp and deleted the drive?

    • [Deactivated] on 29/10/2014 - 09:37

      Possibly but unlikely. I am assuming this started happening before putting on Yosemite as you said its been happening for about a month and Yosemite has only been available officially for a couple of weeks?

      Sounds like the SSD may be playing some silly buggers, but can't tell.

      You installed Yosemite correctly, installing from the App store is how you are meant to install it.

      Perhaps Yosemite/Mavericks were doing updates during shut downs? But it should show and tell you that its doing updates so its unlikely.

      Edit: Boot camp installation and deletion is a pretty good culprit. I've installed it a few times and have noticed a slow down in load speeds.

  • timmypete on 29/10/2014 - 10:07

    With an earlier OS update I found issues with having VMware and Parallels virtualisation tools installed concurrently caused issues, but there are hundreds of things that could be causing this.

    As has already been mentioned, upgrade installs can be more problematic than a fresh install, but this might not be an option in your situation. If you have more information, there might be a simpler fix, and there is a relatively easy way to find out exactly what is happening during the shutdown process: verbose mode.

    Boot your machine in verbose mode by holding down the command key and V. Instead of the usual black screen and loading animation you'll get a text rundown of what exactly is happening. On shutdown, the same thing will happen, and you might get some clues from processes that take a long time to complete or noticeable gaps between updates.

    Given you can't screenshot and the processes rush by, perhaps keep a camera/phone nearby to take a snap of what is on screen.

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