On a three year old MacBook pro shutdown times after installing Yosemite have gone to more than 3 minutes. First the screen goes black and then the spinning segmented wheel continues for about 3 minutes. No outside programs/util installed except the required Java.
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
After an hour online with Apple Support, and several restarts, and throwing away anything in the two cache folders, resetting the parameter ram, etc. etc. It came down to three files in the Launch Agents and Launch Daemons folder. I had removed an old installation of Parallels from this laptop but left these files in place. After a few restarts and letting the Mac reestablish the cache files the shutdown is now about 2 seconds. I guess software mfgs will have to start including unistall utilities with their programs....
David 🙂
I deleted the files PAPYAPPLE listed and sure enough, after one more painful 2.5 minute shutdown and restart ... shutdown was 3-5 seconds. Thank you!
Thank you so, so much!!
Perfect! I'd installed Parallels as a trial a couple of years ago. The link provided fixed my up in seconds went from 2.5 minutes to 15 seconds!
YES! Annoyed by this problem for months. Thanks very much for this nifty solution...also a result of an old Parallels install.
Slow shutdown on Yosemite
