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Increased Shut down time on 10.7 Lion

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GerMo

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Since upgrading to Lion, I have enjoyed it a lot.
Unfortunately, I have noticed on both my mid-2010 Macbook Pro 17" and 11" Macbook air that the boot up and shut down times have dramatically increased.

Most importantly, it is the shut down time. Before when my macs were running snow leopard, my mba took less than 5 seconds to shut down, but now, it takes at least 20 seconds! My macbook pro takes more than that.

This is just unacceptable. Has anyone out there experienced this and know of how to fix it?? Any help/suggestions are welcome.
 
how often do you actually shut down your mac? most people these days just put it to sleep, maybe shutting it down when they go away, or something...

i imagine it's taking a 'snapshot' of open apps, windows...so it can restore them on reboot.

15 seconds every now & then doesn't seem so bad, considering all of the above...
 
fisherking said:
how often do you actually shut down your mac? most people these days just put it to sleep, maybe shutting it down when they go away, or something...

i imagine it's taking a 'snapshot' of open apps, windows...so it can restore them on reboot.

15 seconds every now & then doesn't seem so bad, considering all of the above...
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well I shut down both my mbp and mba everyday. Maybe I should just not shut down my computer at all. But it's still quite annoying when I sometimes switch to bootcamp and I have to wait for ages.
 
i see that same on my test machines, my imac and mbp w/ssd get the spinning wheel for 25 secs before shutting down, both SL upgrades, with and without FV2 installed.
 
acurafan said:
i see that same on my test machines, my imac and mbp w/ssd get the spinning wheel for 25 secs before shutting down, both SL upgrades, with and without FV2 installed.
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You have exactly the same problem as mine. I get that spinning wheel too and it spins for ages before it actually shuts down.
 
Try ejecting your Boot Camp partition (right click -> eject). It will come back after the next boot.
 
jman240 said:
Try ejecting your Boot Camp partition (right click -> eject). It will come back after the next boot.
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nope, doesn't work. As a matter of fact, I only have bootcamp on my mbp not mba.

Btw, I have officially timed the shut down of my mbp, it takes 47 seconds! mba, on the other hand takes around 23 seconds.
 
I can confirm the spinning wheel is there on my late 2009 Mini while restarting as well, it takes additional 30 seconds to restart.

Is it there when your MBP restarts or just when it shuts down?
 
It might be because of the saved state feature. When you shut your Mac down and then back on, do some applications start automatically?

Besides, I've noticed that the new Mail.app tends to take a few time closing.
 
mabaker said:
I can confirm the spinning wheel is there on my late 2009 Mini while restarting as well, it takes additional 30 seconds to restart.

Is it there when your MBP restarts or just when it shuts down?
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It's there for both restarting, booting, and shutting down.
 
VicAnd7 said:
It might be because of the saved state feature. When you shut your Mac down and then back on, do some applications start automatically?

Besides, I've noticed that the new Mail.app tends to take a few time closing.
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Nope, every time I shut down my macs, I uncheck the box "Reopen windows when logging back in". That's what I thought the problem was at first, but it seems like it isn't. This is quite annoying!
 
GerMo said:
Nope, every time I shut down my macs, I uncheck the box "Reopen windows when logging back in". That's what I thought the problem was at first, but it seems like it isn't. This is quite annoying!
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I asked that because I had the same issue, but I wrote an app that automatically disables save state and shut downs the Mac, and it shuts down as fast as SL.

Care to give it a try? CleanShutDown

Let me know if it improves your shut down time!
 
Interestingly enough, the shutdown time of my MB was dramatically improved by Lion, and startup time is only slightly increased.

Weird.
 
Same here. Boot up times slightly increased but shut down time dramatically decreased. Launching apps is also increased as well. At any one time i have multiple safari tabs opened, mail, calendar, iTunes, pages, numbers, vmware, adobe reader, adobe illustrator and adium all set to automatically open on boot.

Everything is great so far except for boot time. Took exactly 1 minute to start up....
 
VicAnd7 said:
I asked that because I had the same issue, but I wrote an app that automatically disables save state and shut downs the Mac, and it shuts down as fast as SL.

Care to give it a try? CleanShutDown

Let me know if it improves your shut down time!
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Tried it out, nope doesn't help. The loading swivel is still there and shut down time takes 24secs.
 
To those that are affected by this problem, I guess our only hope is for Apple to patch the problem in 10.7.1
 
basher said:
You mean 10.7.2
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No, I said 10.7.1, so I mean 10.7.1.
You must've read some reports saying that 10.7.2 will be the next update because Apple has already seeded the beta versions to the developers. But for now, i'll say 10.7.1 because we are currently running 10.7 which is 10.7.0, and if you can count properly, 10.7.1 is the next update. And that is just what I hope will happen, but according to some reports, they say Apple isn't releasing any bug fixes yet.
 
I'm experiencing the very same problem on my mid-2010 15" MBP. At first I thought it was because I did an upgrade from SL, but I have since performed a clean install of Lion and the startup/shutdown speeds are the same..:(
 
iThinkergoiMac said:
Interestingly enough, the shutdown time of my MB was dramatically improved by Lion, and startup time is only slightly increased.

Weird.
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I'm seeing a HUGE decrease in shutdown and startup times on my Early 2011 13" MBP w/ a OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. On Snow Leopard my startups were longer than with the stock HDD.

FYI; I put SL on my SSD by just copying my installation from my HDD using OS X's Disk Utility and I installed Lion as a regular update; no fresh installs at all.

The trend I'm seeing here is that anything older than early 2011 is having issues. I wonder if it's hardware/chipset related?
 
My shutdown time is easily 3-4 times longer than under SL as well. Boot time seems unaffected though, and since I rarely shutdown/reboot, it doesn't really bother me.
 
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