slow shutdown

[hasek3139]

so ive had a recent problem with my MAC

when i used to shutdown it took all of 6 seconds, it went to a blue screen then shut down

but since about a week ago its been taking almost 15 seconds and when the blue screen comes up a loading circle appears at the bottom

any one got any ideas what is wrong?

MBPU 15

2.4 GHZ core 2 duo

2 GB RAM

250 Gb HDD (i have 105 gb of free space)

 

[dreary]

trying cleaning your HDD some and it should be fine.

 

[GGJstudios]

Try quitting all your apps before you shutdown. If it shuts down normally, then the culprit is one of your apps that's hanging. You can try using Activity Monitor to see which one it is, but it's possible the shutdown process will close AM before the app that's hanging.

trying cleaning your HDD some and it should be fine.

How would that have anything to do with the shutdown process? And what do you mean by "cleaning"?

 

[hasek3139]

i do close every windows down, i even turn the wifi off

 

[rgarjr]

Try sleeping it instead..

 

[GGJstudios]

i do close every windows down, i even turn the wifi off

Closing windows doesn't necessarily mean quitting apps. If you close all Safari windows, for example, the app is still running. Check your Dock to make sure no icon has the light under it, indicating that the app is still active. Or you can Command + Tab to make sure no apps are running. That still doesn't preclude a process that could be running, but apps are more commonly the problem.

 

[definitive]

i've had a slow shutdown problem on snow leopard a week after i installed it. the way i solved it was by repairing permissions + cleaning cache/temp files through onyx. you can also try using disk utility.

 

[Malithion]

Have you restored from a Time Machine backup lately?

 

[hasek3139]

alright let me clear something up, i DO close out of all applications, nothing is running

i will try onyx, and c if that works, and post back....thx

 

[Benito]

Run a disk permissions on disk utility, that usually helps.

 

[hasek3139]

so i put in my snow leopard install cd, and

started up from the disk, and ran disk utility from there

shutdown is all good

thx everyone and lets all get xcited from iphone OS 4.0!

 

[Nice]

my macbook was shutting down slow too, and i could not figure out what was the problem. but then i remembered that it started to do that after i installed Parallels 5 and deleted it from the apps folder. then i have noticed that on the parallels CD there is an uninstall icon, so i have started it, and since then my shutdown is fast again