VERY Slow Shutdown

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VERY Slow Shutdown

Hi, After installing Vista on a Boot Camp partition, my iMac take forever to shutdown - like 3-4 mins. The only way to stop this is by ejecting the partition just before I restart the computer. Is there a fix for this at all as I nearly always forget to eject the partition.

thanks

iMac 20" 1gb ram, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 24, 2008 11:02 AM

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V.K.

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Mar 24, 2008 11:27 AM in response to Jjpeacha

are you using macfuse or something like it to make the NTFS partition writable?
I had this problem (didn't take nearly as long as it does for you to shutdown) but only after I installed macfuse.

Don't know of any real fix but as a workaround you can install a logout hook that will unmount your bootcamp partition automatically.

The easiest way to do this is to install [loginwindow manager|http://www.bombich.com/software/lwm.html] and make it run the following script on logouts:

diskutil unmount /Volumes/bootcampvolumename

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Jjpeacha Author

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Mar 24, 2008 5:14 PM in response to V.K.

Ahhh so its MacFuse that is making this happen! Thanks alot for point this out to me, and giving me a link too =]

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Jjpeacha Author

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Mar 24, 2008 5:43 PM in response to V.K.

I seem to be having trouble understanding how I would do this, can you help me with it please.

So far I have opened TextEdit, pasted in what you said and saved it onto my desktop as "logout.sh". I opened up the app and then ticked the logout option and typed in /Users/James/Desktop/logout.sh but when I press test it comes up with some variable problem.

Thanks!

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joshz

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Mar 24, 2008 5:45 PM in response to Jjpeacha

You have to plug in your boot camp volume's name for "bootcampvolumename"-you can't just copy and paste exactly as written.

Good luck!

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V.K.

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Mar 24, 2008 6:10 PM in response to Jjpeacha

First, joshz is right and you have to substitute the name of your bootcamp drive instead of bootcampvolumename. If the name has spaces, put it the name in quotation marks like this:
/Volumes/"My bootcamp"

Next, if you are saving it as a separate script file you need to do it correctly.

1. make sure that the text in Text Editor is formatted as plain text and you are saving it with no extension. Change the extension by hand in Finder afterwards if you want that .sh at the end.

2. make the script unix executable.
To do this open a terminal window, type
"chmod 755 " (no quotation marks but don't forget the space at the end). Drag your file logout.sh to the terminal window and press enter in terminal.

You should be now set to go. You can test that your script works by dragging logout.sh to terminal and pressing enter. This should (hopefully) unmount your bootcamp disk.

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