MacBook Pro Slow bootup

Hi There.

I suffered some grief with my 17" MBP and after lots of work fixed everything except I was left with a boot up time of about 2 mins. I have just bought a brand new 15" MBP top spec. I had figured it was a problem in the OS that was causing the slow boot up so I migrated my old home folder to my new MBP. And yes, it brought the problem with it.

I erased the new MBP and reloaded the OS and did another migrate but without the Settings option. It still had the slow bootup

I just can't figure out what it could be and i would be much happier if my spanking new MBP did not take ages to boot.

Is it possible to copy over applications, music photos etc from a hard drive to the new mac bit by bit to find the problem?

Hope for some help.

Phil.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Aug 27, 2014 1:04 PM

32 replies

MadMacs0

Level 5

5,233 points

Sep 4, 2014 10:49 PM in response to Phil Wade

This isn't really my area of expertise (in fact I'm not sure what caused me to drop by) but your list of Kernel Extensions leads me to believe you have a lot of software attempting to load which is no longer needed. Normally it take only micro-seconds to figure that out and move to try and load the next, but perhaps that is part of the problem. You indicated that you only migrated the user, but with all those extensions I have a hard time believing you haven't migrated a bunch of driver software for items you no longer have or use.

As an example you have loaded up nvidia cuda software, but you don't have an nvidia graphics care (intel and AMD) and according to this, neither is supported.

Hopefully you already know that the only way to get rid of such items is by visiting the developer's site and researching the proper method to uninstall it. Often they have an uninstaller app or script or at least a list of all the files that need to be removed.

Any time you find anything in "Startup Items" you need to be suspicious. That technique was deprecated by Apple many OS's ago and they have threatened to eliminate it some day, but a few developers insist on using it. Make sure everything listed there is something you still need. PACESupport is anti-piracy support for some kind of third party software. I believe that iLok is the primary license issue for Macs. Are you still using that software?

Bottom line: You appear to have a lot of "cruft" left over from previous OS X computing years that needs to go away.

Phil Wade Author

Level 1

31 points

Sep 5, 2014 11:33 AM in response to MadMacs0

Hi MadMacs0

Well! OMG as the young people say these days. Yesterday after i binned MacKeeper i did a restart and all seemed the same. I then did a shut down and did not reboot until today but when i did..... it took all of about 10 seconds 😁🙂🙂. I can only assume it was due to saying goodbye to that nasty program!

So a huge thank you to MadMAcs0 and also to Kappy who has been a massive help over the last week and apologies to OGLETHORPE for not heeding your advice earlier. Anyway I am a happy man tonight. Cheers

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