Recently my iMac started to have boot times that can take almost 2 minutes before you get to the desktop. This is compared to boot times that were close to 15-20 seconds or so in the past. The system is around 6 months old and running macOS Mojave 10.14.6 with only one login item, which is Dropbox. The system runs fine otherwise but I havent been able to narrow down the cause of the slow boot so far. Any ideas?
You might reconsider having MalwareBytes run all the time in the background. It just uses up system resources. I have it but run only once in a while if I think I might have installed some adware or malware. I don't see a need to run it full time.
Boot into Safe Mode and then reboot normally to see if there's any difference in the boot times.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.
I've also heard those comments about Dropbox. It will be easy for you to either prove or disprove them.
You might reconsider having MalwareBytes run all the time in the background. It just uses up system resources. I have it but run only once in a while if I think I might have installed some adware or malware. I don't see a need to run it full time.
Boot into Safe Mode and then reboot normally to see if there's any difference in the boot times.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.
I've also heard those comments about Dropbox. It will be easy for you to either prove or disprove them.
So I uninstalled Dropbox and there was no change. I also uninstalled Battle.net (dont really use it) and that didnt change anything either.
Once I uninstalled MalwareBytes, the system booted normally in about 27 seconds. I guess I need to open a support ticket with that vendor to see whats up with that. I suspect a recent version update they pushed out to the client is when it started.
Post the entire report here by using the little page icon at the bottom of the window.
Some other smart people are pointing at DropBox as a possible cause of the slow downs.
Disable it and see if things speed back up.
Definitely open a a support ticket with the developer. He's very responsive and will definitely what to look into the situation.
Slow or delayed start up times
