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SLOW shutdown?

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ProPedderKustom

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Jan 11, 2008
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Has anyone experienced a much slower shutdown? Each down I shut down the computer it goes to a grey screen and does the grey spinning beach-ball at the bottom center of the screen. Startup is very very fast but shutdown has been slow just like this since day 1.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
 
Same here, slow shutdown and slower boot. Mac Pro and MBP 13" (2011). The Mac Pro is a clean install by the way. Due to a ton of weirdness after a standard upgrade (the first time ever that I have issues after an upgrade).
 
My boot is slower than SL, but I have find that once I login the System doesn't feels laggy, as I has been loaded during the boot up. It's seems like a fair trade to me.
 
the slow shutdown only occurs occasionally on my system. i'm running an apple ssd, 10.7, and always uncheck the "open windows" box when shutting down. start up always fast though.
 
Same here: 15 inch late 2008 MBP, upgraded to Lion, and a complete restart takes really long. I never timed it, but I can say that shutdown and boot takes about 2-3 times longer than on SL.

What's the point of shutdown anyway? If my documents are saved, and all the settings are saved, what the hell more does the computer do before powering off? If I were to power off my computer right now, nothing would get damaged or lost unless I have unsaved documents, so what's the point? You get prompted to save your stuff before shutdown anyway.
 
I noticed that the shutdown time on Lion is slower than Snow Leopard but it doesn't bother me much. Startup time is about 45 seconds for me.
 
Mine is pretty slow, I've timed it and it's just under 2 minutes for both shutdown and startup. My HD's pretty full though. Working with a 13' MBP Mid 2010 w/ 250 GB HD. Either way, the only reason I shut down is if I'm going to be leaving it somewhere for a very long time, say I'm going on holiday, or I reboot it if I need to install new software, other then that it's just asleep. ;)
 
I spoke with an AppleCare rep today and she had me do a PRAM reset [didn't work] and then a reinstall of the OS [which didn't work]. Not sure why I am having this issue with a BRAND NEW machine. Frustrating...
 
I don't think the age of the machine matters, it's just something within Lion itself. Doesn't seem like there's anything you can do to fix it, I'm suffering the same problem myself.
 
After a bunch of fresh installs trying various thing, it turns out that migrating my Applications from my previous Time Machine backup [from my late 2010 MBA on Snow Leopard] was causing the problem. When I migrated everything EXCEPT for the applications, the problem disappeared. I'm reinstalling apps now but my machine needed to freshening anyway.
 
As somebody switching from Windows to Mac OS X a few times a day this can be VERY annoying! Not cool Apple!
 
I actually had the same problem. I haven't done a clean install since 2009 so I thought Lion was a good pretext to do so and so I did. Shutdown times have improved dramatically, it's a great machine again (Mac Mini 2009) and it's flying super fast as it should be. No slowdowns whatsoever.
 
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