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MBA slow shut Down

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  • 26-07-2012 3:41pm
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    Deep Thought
    Registered Users Posts: 4,398 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Purchases MBA June 22, its 256GB with 8GB Ram

    Have noticed that it seems very slow shutting down....

    Not sure whats going on....

    Any advice appreciated

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



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    DubDJ
    Registered Users Posts: 5,359 ✭✭✭DubDJ


    Deep Thought wrote: »
    Hi

    Purchases MBA June 22, its 256GB with 8GB Ram

    Have noticed that it seems very slow shutting down....

    Not sure whats going on....

    Any advice appreciated

    My MBP was really fast shutting down when I first got it. 3 - 5 seconds and it was a 7200rpm HDD. Now it takes around 25 - 30 secs. I just put it down to having so many files now and installed apps. I don't know if this is an actual problem. Although SSD should be a lot faster.


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    bertie4evr
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭bertie4evr


    Try going into safe mode and rebooting it then.


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    #4
    Deep Thought
    Registered Users Posts: 4,398 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    Done that and update to 10.8 bit still takes ages to shut down

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



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    cornbb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    Because Mountain Lion will try to relaunch all of the applications that were open when shutting down and will attempt to restore their windows, it is possible that one of more of your applications is responding slowly when the OS sends it a message that it is about to shut down and waits for a response.

    Try quitting all open applications before shutting down. Does it still take a long time? If so, its the OS. If not, its an application. I feel that it is unlikely to be the OS on such a new machine, unless there is some major bug.

    Out of curiosity, are you shutting the machine every time you're finished using it? There's usually no particular need to, these days OS X is designed around the concept of letting the machine sleep between periods of use, shutting down is usually an occasional thing unless you have a specific reason for doing so.


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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭taylorconor95


    When you shut down, do you have the check box 'reopen windows when logging back in' checked? If so, try shutting down without it.


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    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,020 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    How long is ages? After I've been using my machine for a while (a few months), shutdowns take a bit longer, it's been the way on all my Macs. But we're only talking 10 sec mac of the grey screen and pinwheel spinning.


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    Deep Thought
    Registered Users Posts: 4,398 ✭✭✭Deep Thought


    It takes about 22secs...to shut down, I have unclicked the box.

    I shut down when going to bed, otherwise I leave it on

    The narrower a man’s mind, the broader his statements.



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