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wakerider017
Oct 16, 2006, 02:03 PM
When i click to shut off my mac in OSX 10.4.8 it takes 60+ seconds to turn off...

I don't remember it taking this long when i first got it...

What's weird is it botts up in just a few seconds but then it takes forever to turn off...

Is there anything I can do to speed up the shut down?

Disk defrag or something?


2nyRiggz
Oct 16, 2006, 02:04 PM
What apps are you running when/before you shut down?



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quigleybc
Oct 16, 2006, 02:12 PM
I always quit all my apps before I shut down.

that may help
wakerider017
Oct 16, 2006, 02:38 PM
Safari, Mail, iChat and some odds and ends... Think that would do it?
2nyRiggz
Oct 16, 2006, 02:43 PM
^Yes, please log out of everything you are doing before you shut down:o



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wakerider017
Oct 16, 2006, 02:51 PM
^Yes, please log out of everything you are doing before you shut down:o



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Will do..

I am going to try it out now and let you guys know how it goes...

Also I have like 10 things on my desktop... Should I file them? Will that make anything faster?
dops7107
Oct 16, 2006, 03:07 PM
Also I have like 10 things on my desktop... Should I file them? Will that make anything faster?

Nah, makes no difference. Just the same as having files anywhere else on your hard drive.

Some applications may take a long time to quit, especially if you have little RAM. And some refuse to quit at all for me - well, Firefox, specifically.
beatsme
Oct 16, 2006, 05:01 PM
When i click to shut off my mac in OSX 10.4.8 it takes 60+ seconds to turn off...

I don't remember it taking this long when i first got it...

What's weird is it botts up in just a few seconds but then it takes forever to turn off...

Is there anything I can do to speed up the shut down?

Disk defrag or something?

having a lot of open fonts will definitely slow your shutdown time. If you're running a font management utility or even FontBook in OSX, make sure you quit out of those before you do shutdown.