My iMac 27" Late 2013 is taking ages to shutdown. It goes to the white screen and the spinning wheel goes on forever and I have to hold the power button down to force shut it down. After trying several things I realized that it only happens when I have file sharing enabled.Can someone please help me figure out why this is happening. My MBP shutsdown fine even though file sharing is enabled.
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iMac 27" doesn't shutdown
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While I can't help with why it's behaving like this, I can tell you that repeatedly forcibly turning the machine off while it's working (or trying to work) is a recipe for disaster.
Yes I know it's a terrible idea to keep force shutting down my iMac, which is why I'm hoping someone here can help.
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I am seriously considering a clean install of 10.9.1. Would this help?
Mine takes around half a minute to shutdown - very irritating when your startup is 8 seconds.
Try disconnecting any attached device to the Mac. Perform SMC reset.
Kernel log might give you an idea about what's going on. Check it in the console.
Well I went ahead and did a clean install and things seem fine but I'm only having trouble with my Epson printer. Before I did the clean install, all I had to do was connect the printer, go to sys prefs>printers, hit the '+', select my epson 1390 and hit add and it went ahead and download and installed the relevant drivers. However, now, after the clean install, it says software for 'software for this printer isn't available from apple' when I hit the '+' and select my printer. Also the add button is greyed out. So did the clean install remove some printer that previously comes with the mac?
I only see one Epson model 1390, and that's the EPSON Stylus Photo 1390.
Is that the Epson model that you have?
Your system should see that printer, as the software is provided from Apple.
You could also download and install the master set for all supported Epson printers from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1398
If you don't have the Stylus Photo 1390, then you have to go to Epson for that download. That's a fairly old printer, so I expect that Epson won't support it on Mavericks, either.
Is that the Epson model that you have?
Your system should see that printer, as the software is provided from Apple.
You could also download and install the master set for all supported Epson printers from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1398
If you don't have the Stylus Photo 1390, then you have to go to Epson for that download. That's a fairly old printer, so I expect that Epson won't support it on Mavericks, either.