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Q: Slow shutdown on Yosemite

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)

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 10:31 AM

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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 

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 12:54 PM

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  • by humangobo,

    humangobo humangobo Jun 8, 2015 9:43 AM in response to Tin Omen
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    Jun 8, 2015 9:43 AM in response to Tin Omen

    THANK YOU!!

     

    I'd been looking to try and find some Parallels stuff still on my system, which there weren't, so I was at a loss.. til I saw this mentioning to look for any other uninstalled stuff, which for me was the Logitech Control Center, and something for a Xbox 360 Controller driver, and now on shutdown/reboot, it takes all of 1-2 seconds for that 'waiting' icon to disappear and shutdown

  • by ChoreoGraphics,

    ChoreoGraphics ChoreoGraphics Jun 10, 2015 2:21 PM in response to dbail22
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    Jun 10, 2015 2:21 PM in response to dbail22

    Macbook Pro early 2011 - trashing Parallels and all associated files took me from 2-1/2 minutes shutdown to a few seconds.

     

    Almost bought a new Mac to get rid of this problem which has plagued me since upgrading to Yosemite.

  • by neilrahc,

    neilrahc neilrahc Nov 6, 2015 8:48 AM in response to dbail22
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    Nov 6, 2015 8:48 AM in response to dbail22

    This also worked for me - Parallels on 2012 MacBook Pro Yosemite.2.5 minute shutdowns.

     

    Cleaned disk space. Ran Disk Utilities Verify/Repair. Still slow shutdown.

     

    Removed Parallels. Still S-L-O-W shutdown. Removed the parallels files from LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons. After one more slow shutdown it now shuts down instantly!

     

    Thanks very much for posting this solution!

  • by rayvandy,

    rayvandy rayvandy Nov 21, 2015 6:16 PM in response to dbail22
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    Nov 21, 2015 6:16 PM in response to dbail22

    I fixed mine by disabling "Firmware Password" via firmware password utility in Recovery menu (pressing command+r upon starting mac). It boosts shutdown time from 30 sec to 5-10 sec.

     

    I hope that Appple get this fixed soon.

     

    Im currently using Macbook Pro Retina Mid 2015 with El Capitan.

  • by Xelio,

    Xelio Xelio Jun 24, 2016 9:21 AM in response to dbail22
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    Jun 24, 2016 9:21 AM in response to dbail22

    I Finally remove TOTALLY Parallels by this command: 


    cd /Library/Parallels/Uninstaller/Parallels\ Hypervisor/  


    sudo ./Uninstaller.sh 


    Insert your root psw then run the command. Wait the full uninstall, then try to restart your macbook.

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