Hello everybody. After Mavericks reinstall, my shut off time is longer than it was.

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Hello everybody. After Mavericks reinstall, my shut off time is longer than it was.

Hello. About a week ago I reinstalled the Mavericks, prior I use to have 2-3 seconds shut off time, I have now 12 seconds. I am using now OS X 10.9.2 version, Late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 15. The reason why I made the reinstall: I didnt knew that in order to use win 7 I dont have to install it via Boot Camp. After I have installed win 7 via Boot Camp I also installed Parallels version 9, used it in trial mode, worked awesome. Meanwhile I wanted to make free the partition that Ive used for win 7 via Boot Camp (70 gb), because Ive realized that it is not needed for me to run win 7. Stupid me, I didnt delete it via Boot Camp, bottom line is that I was not able to delete it at all, Ive tried from recovery mode, disk manager, was not able to delete the partition. At the moment I still had a very good shut off time, about 2-3 seconds, everything was ok despite of the fact that I was not able to access the 70 gb. I have now a boot time of 11-12 seconds, not bad but this time was also shorter prior reinstall. Ive dowwnload the OS X from apple store, made a bootable usb drive using DiskMakerX. Booting from this usb drive I was able finally to erase the entire drive and made the reinstall. I am using now parallels version 8 instead of 9, because I had an activation key for version 8, works fine. So, I would say that my longer shut off time is not affected by me using parallels 8. I tried to repair the disk from recovery mode, didnt changed my shut off time, made the smc reset and also made pram reset. Nothing helped. What is there to do, how can I have the same very short shut off time? I rarely turn off the mac, but still this is very annoying. Thank you for reading, waiting for ideas and advices.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Other OS, OS X 10.9.2

Posted on Mar 25, 2014 6:29 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 25, 2014 6:32 AM in response to István Dániel

That is not an unusual amount of time to startup or shutdown with Mavericks...my MacBook Pro is similar. While it is a little longer than it was with Mountain Lion or Lion, it is not a real problem.

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Answer 2

Mar 25, 2014 6:40 AM in response to Ralph Landry1

The startup time is fine, the longer shut off time is the thing that bothers me. I also have sometimes longer shut off times then 12 seconds. Comparing to the 2-3 seconds that I had earlier, I find the actual shut off time long, I am using a pci ssd.

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Answer 3

Mar 25, 2014 6:50 AM in response to István Dániel

Not sure but it looks like Mavericks writes a lot more info on shutdown than the older Mac OS X versions were doing. With some more apps it has more to keep track of and setup for restart.

With the Windows material, the system could also be trying to track that info in a different way now. It is always very complex when there are different OSs and partitions to track.

After it settles down for a few days, you might want to look at your setup and see if you need to do some houskeeping chores...but definitely not with cleaning software as that causes all kinds of problems. Just look at the cleaning tasks you can do with Mac OS X itself to organize and remove cookies, etc.

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Answer 4

Mar 25, 2014 7:21 AM in response to Ralph Landry1

Before the reinstall I had not problems what so ever. How can you explain that?

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Answer 5

Mar 25, 2014 3:45 PM in response to István Dániel

You can reestart in verbose mode (pressing cmd+v) and see what happens in the shut off.

In the shut off, every process receive the order to shut off. System gives some time to do it and then starts to force quit them.

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Answer 6

Mar 30, 2014 4:45 AM in response to el_mancebo

I have started in verbose mode. Pressed shut off and everything is fine, see the video in the link. Something else must be the problem.

http://youtu.be/1diPTtGPsE4

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Answer 7

Mar 30, 2014 5:11 AM in response to István Dániel

The times you are talking about are not out of line, since you did the verbose mode startup and shutdown you see the number of processes that have to terminate correctly. In addition, if you have the closing dialog box checked to reopen windows, and have items in your startup sequence list that are to be restarted, such as apps that were in use, you are adding those items to the sequence that need to have their state preserved so they can restart.

All of which comes down to, your times are not unrealistically long.

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Answer 8

Mar 30, 2014 5:48 AM in response to Ralph Landry1

Before I made the reinstall I used the same apps as I use now. The bottom line is that after reinstall the mac is slower then it was. Something must have gone wrong when I tried to delete the boot camp partition and wasnt able to delete it. Thank you anyway for the help.

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Answer 9

Mar 30, 2014 8:33 AM in response to István Dániel

The problem is really not so much with Mavericks as with the BootCamp partition. You need to use BootCamp Assistant to correctly remove that partition.

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Answer 10

Mar 30, 2014 8:36 AM in response to István Dániel

Be sure to read through http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5639 and see if that gives some help clearing out the BootCamp partition.

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Answer 11

Mar 30, 2014 10:06 AM in response to Ralph Landry1

That is what I am thinking also. Unfortunatelly the partition that was made via Boot Camp was not erased using Boot Camp. This must be the source of my problem. I think that although Ive erased the all disk, I might have some corrupt files on the disk.

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Answer 12

Mar 30, 2014 10:12 AM in response to István Dániel

A search using the Serch box on the grey bar at the top returns http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.home.search&local e=en_US&q=Bootcamp and more using variations on BootCamp. There was another thread not too long ago by a user having a great deal of trouble getting the partition erased and the space back for Mac OS X use. Been looking back to see if I can find that thread and how it finally resolved.

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Answer 13

Mar 31, 2014 7:33 AM in response to Ralph Landry1

Thank you, I am also trying to find a solution for my problem.

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