Mavericks very slow shutdown, how to fix it?

SOLVED slow shutdown as follows:

WhiteHat Aviator was repeatedly showing up as com.whitehatsec.aviator.dmg in Disk Utility. There's no uninstaller, but I removed Aviator by deleting:

Library/LaunchAgents/com.aviator.agent.plist

Library/Aviator (containing com.aviatorupdate.agent, RunUpdate, UpdateAviator, etc.)

Library/Caches/Aviator

Library/Caches/AviatorEngine

Library/Caches/UpdateEngine-Temp/com.whitehatsec.aviator.dmg-etc.

Library/Caches/UpdateEngine.503/Downloads/com.whitehatsec.aviator.dmg

Library/LaunchAgents/com.aviator.agent.plist

Library/Application Support/Aviator

Library/Preferences/com.whitehatsec.aviator.plist

Library/Saved Application State/com.whitehatsec.aviator.savedState

As a huge side benefit, my system no longer hangs for a minute on shutdown!

For further details, see solmaker posts at: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6337331

I was able to fix slow shutdown on my MBP by doing the following (as recommended by a user on MacRumors forum)..

1. Turn off wifi
2. Open Keychain
3. Locate all wifi network password entries and delete them (delete all occurrences you can find in every Keychain group).
4. Restart your Mac
5. Reconnect to your wifi network

This reduced shutdown on my Mac to about 3 seconds! 🙂

Strangely enough, uninstalling Microsoft's Remote Desktop app fixed the slow shutdown times for me as well.

Now if I can only figure out how to reduce the amount of time it takes for Mavericks to come up after logging in...

Radnor wrote: Now if I can only figure out how to reduce the amount of time it takes for Mavericks to come up after logging in...

Have you tried EtreCheck? http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Start a new thread, someone should be able to help you. Login should be almost instantaneous.

Mateus109 wrote:

Radnor wrote: Now if I can only figure out how to reduce the amount of time it takes for Mavericks to come up after logging in...

Have you tried EtreCheck? http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Start a new thread, someone should be able to help you. Login should be almost instantaneous.

Thanks for the link. However, after hours of tinkering and searching I found the culprit: my laptop has been trying to connect to a nonexistent Active Directory server. I'm not currently connected to the company intranet, so I guess after a few days it loses whatever information it had cached and extended my login while it tried to find the server.

I solved the long-login-problem by removing the Active Directory server from the authentication search policy via the Directory Utility.

Confirmed iCloud issue on my Mac. Singed out of iCloud and it goes down within 1-2 seconds.

My Machine is a Macbook Pro 17" I7, with a 128gb super fast SSD.....when I first installed mavericks it would shut down in less then 1 sec...

I messed around with iCloud and adding cool voices to the text to speak in Sys Preferences and the machine was then shutting down in 10 secs...

So....I looked online andI searched and searched, and none of the fixes I found fixed my slow shutdown issue....

Open activity monitor look for LaunchDaemons that had to do with iCloud KILL em

open up the following

Shift + Command + G

type in the following path

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/

drag any .plist

that start out with com.apple.icloud

to the trash, it will ask for admin pswd....

then empty trash....

restart the machine and try shut down, my machine is back to less than 1 sec to shut down..

Loving My Mac again...

This seems to work: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=20211216#post20211216