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Slow boot up time after update to 10.6.6

Plater

Plater

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Original poster
Dec 30, 2010
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Toronto
Hello, kinda new to the forum.

Just got my back book over the christmas and im VERY happy with it. So the problem started yesterday, after i recieved the email from apple saying that mac app store is open!

I ran system upgrade right away to try out the new mac app store. So with the system update, there are also some updates about aperture, and also it said something about the Mac Firmware Update. (not too sure if this was relevant)

Anyways. after the update, my start up time have increased dramatically. It used to be instant start up to the login screen, but now it takes atleast 50sec-1min to load the login screen. I dont do much on this comp, just some documents, WoW, and aperture (about 50 pictures stored).

I tried running the VRAM and the NRAM reset thing. But still didnt help.

Anyone have any thoughts?
 
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millerb7

macrumors 6502a
Jun 9, 2010
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Plater said:
Hello, kinda new to the forum.

Just got my back book over the christmas and im VERY happy with it. So the problem started yesterday, after i recieved the email from apple saying that mac app store is open!

I ran system upgrade right away to try out the new mac app store. So with the system update, there are also some updates about aperture, and also it said something about the Mac Firmware Update. (not too sure if this was relevant)

Anyways. after the update, my start up time have increased dramatically. It used to be instant start up to the login screen, but now it takes atleast 50sec-1min to load the login screen. I dont do much on this comp, just some documents, WoW, and aperture (about 50 pictures stored).

I tried running the VRAM and the NRAM reset thing. But still didnt help.

Anyone have any thoughts?
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Do you have other HDD's attached? Internal or external?
 
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jenzjen

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Aug 20, 2010
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Same here, this happens time/time depending on what else the software update touches. For me, my MBA went from ~15s to 30s boots, so checked to make sure Mac was the startup disk then reset the PRAM and SMC - no improvement - so I just left it on for a few hours so OS X could do whatever housekeeping it had to do - now back to 15s.

Just give it time.
 
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jenzjen

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Aug 20, 2010
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Mine was back to zippy somewhere around 4 hours, as that was the next time I had to restart it.
 
Retrostarscream

Retrostarscream

macrumors member
Sep 13, 2010
99
17
Miami FL
I am personally having major issues with 10.6.6, which I gather are a spotlight issue of continuously indexing my Windows 7 partition on every reboot.

The result is a extremely sluggish OSX experience, rendering it almost usable.

If you have a Windows partition on your machine. I'd highly advise against it. Here are a couple of Apple discussion threads relating to this issue.

http://discussions.info.apple.com/th...art=0&tstart=0
http://discussions.info.apple.com/me...ageID=10244970
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....art=0&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....11846&tstart=0

This is a proposed solution of placing your boot camp partition in the privacy field in spotlight preferences, although I have yet to verify it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
 
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