Macbook Slow to Boot

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Macbook Slow to Boot

My Macbook Has just started to boot very slowly ( Around Ten Minutes).
A grey loading bar appears while it is booting and stays for this time.
No changes have been made to the macbook recently and I have all the latest updates installed.
I have doen a verify and reapir on the permissions with no affect.
I have also used idefrag to defrag the drive but again this hasnt helped

Macbook 13.3 2.1 Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.2), 4gb RAM, 500Gb Hard Drive

Posted on Dec 29, 2009 3:54 PM

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Answer 1

baltwo

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Dec 29, 2009 4:32 PM in response to dmanson79

See:

Mac Maintenance Quick Assist,
Mac OS X speed FAQ,
Speeding up Macs,
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
Essential Mac Maintenance: Get set up,
Essential Mac Maintenance: Rev up your routines,
Maintaining OS X, and
Myths of required versus not required maintenance for Mac OS X

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Answer 2

TildeBee

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Dec 29, 2009 5:27 PM in response to dmanson79

dmanson --
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
We're other Mac users, helping each other find solutions.

In addition to baltwo's good advice,
you might want to check your Font Book application for duplicate fonts.

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dmanson79 Author

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Dec 30, 2009 3:38 AM in response to dmanson79

I have been thru the different suggestions on all the pages.
Cleared the cache and startup items.
done all the general maintenance
there were also quite a few duplicate fonts which i have resolved but still the issue persists
Thanks for the help so far

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Answer 4

baltwo

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Dec 30, 2009 12:33 PM in response to dmanson79

Next step is to reinstall the 10.6.2 COMBO update, repair permissions, and restart. If that doesn't do it, Boot with the install disc and reinstall SL, check out that normal booting occurs and then incrementally update it. If still no go, hook up an ext HD to the machine, install SL onto it, don't migrate, and see if it operates the machine normally. If so, then some software process is causing the issue and tracking that down will be daunting.

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dmanson79 Author

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Jan 9, 2010 2:58 AM in response to dmanson79

Had to format the disk and reinstall. all ok now. thanks

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baltwo

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Jan 9, 2010 10:52 AM in response to dmanson79

Thanks for the feedback. Good computing.

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