Unusual startup results with Sonoma

I loaded Sonoma two days ago from my fully updated Ventura. On its first startup Sonoma took about twice as long as Ventura to boot up the desktop. It also moved my Mac icon and my backup icon from their normal top right corner location. Also Sonoma startup substituted a different and active desktop image from my Ventura one. After my problems appeared, I returned to my original Ventura desktop image. It didn't help. What's going on?

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Posted on Sep 28, 2023 12:16 PM

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Sep 28, 2023 12:33 PM in response to ocdownhiller



ocdownhiller wrote:

I loaded Sonoma two days ago from my fully updated Ventura. On its first startup Sonoma took about twice as long as Ventura to boot up the desktop. It also moved my Mac icon and my backup icon from their normal top right corner location. Also Sonoma startup substituted a different and active desktop image from my Ventura one. After my problems appeared, I returned to my original Ventura desktop image. It didn't help. What's going on?


It always seems to take a bit for the code to settle in, that is not so unusual.


Shutting down and restart more than once is always recommended exactly for this reason.


Do you have a current issue?


Unusual startup results with Sonoma

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