Why is Yosemite showing a load bar when I boot up my Mac(s)?

I don't mind if there is a progress bar. My problem is it takes ages to load. With Mavericks it stared spontaneously.

The progress bar scared me each time I saw it, and I was this close (holding index finger and thumb up about a quarter of an inch apart) to doing a fresh install.

I think I'm just not used to any progress bar cause I've been using a Macbook with a SSD for so long, but unfortunately I'm back to a HDD.

Thanks for the info.

Hmm..this is weird. This is the loading bar I get BEFORE the login screen. After login I'm fine. And I wouldn't think login items would do this, as suggested to you previously. I have several login items including network drives that automatically map at login and I don't get this after logging in, I get it before.

From everything I've read on all the forums it seems like the bar is normal. People are getting it with a grey background, black background, before login screen, on the login screen. Apparently it's the same process as Mavericks only then it was a wheel and now its a bar; and it seems to change depending on what model Mac you are on. Why change to an icon that was previously used when checking the HardDrive, usually do to a failing disc?...who knows. But I think we are all ok.

I think you have a different problem than others in this forum. A far more annoying problem. Definitely a bummer tho, and obviously not a normal boot up process. Sounds like either a failing HardDrive, or just a bad install. I'm guessing the latter of the two. I had a bad install back with OS X Lion and had to start over with a fresh install. I would do a disk check just to make sure and if it passes which it probably will, I would do a wipe the drive and do a fresh install, which is annoying but....it technology...we're always gonna have issues. Make sure you google how to do an actual fresh/clean install and not just reinstalling if you aren't sure.

iTempo wrote:

Hmm..this is weird. This is the loading bar I get BEFORE the login screen. After login I'm fine. And I wouldn't think login items would do this, as suggested to you previously. I have several login items including network drives that automatically map at login and I don't get this after logging in, I get it before.

There are plenty of things loading before you log in, the more you have the longer it takes before the password prompt appears. If you also have a lot of user login (as opposed to system login) items you'll see another progress indicator.

..yup.

Csound1 wrote:

That's because the problem is in your previous installation, that's why it workied until you migrated it back to your new installation.

Don't migrate anything except data files.

Right, I assumed that, which is why I mentioned migrating system settings. But not migrating anything except data files is not an option. My Promise Pegasus2 RAID drive (that I bought from Apple), at a minimum, requires an extension. So does CrashPlan. I've been unable to find any compatibility info on extensions, and cannot spend 24 hours per attempt in a binary search to determine the culprit. (It's also not obvious where all of the possible culprits reside, as they might be extensions in /System/Library/Extensions, /Library/Extensions, or ~/Library/Extensions, or they might be LaunchAgents or LaunchDaemons in those various places, and possibly other places I'm not aware of. I actually did some experimenting booting into single-user mode and moving certain extensions to a disabled folder, but it didn't change anything.) I still don't have my machine back and it's been four days now. I'm hoping that by tonight the Mavericks restore from Time Machine will be complete and I will have use of my Mac again. I'm not going to even consider Yosemite until the ecosystem has evolved a bit and these kinds of incompatibilities have been identified and updates provided.

I worked for Apple for 19 years and installed pre-pre-pre-Alpha versions of every release of OS X that existed up until I left in 2006, but this is the first time a shipping product has failed so completely for me. Couple this with my iPhone 6 Plus waking up locked into the wrong orientation, including both landscape and upside down, and I'm pretty disgusted with Apple right now. Thankfully iOS 8.1 seems to have fixed the orientation problem, though I can't be certain until I've lived with it a bit longer.

larryy wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

That's because the problem is in your previous installation, that's why it workied until you migrated it back to your new installation.

Don't migrate anything except data files.

Right, I assumed that, which is why I mentioned migrating system settings. But not migrating anything except data files is not an option.

Not the choice I would make but it's yours to make.

Good luck.

The loading bar *****. Another issue I had is there is an App in the dock quickly log off. I always couldn't see the logo when I reboot my laptop.

I did a completely clean installation of Yosemite via USB. Formatted the disk before installation etc... and still have the same slowness issue when logging on that was never present on Mavericks.

As a 2012 macbook pro owner (one with a solid state drive), the idea that OS X Yosemite's new slow log in progress bar is anything but a problem - is ridiculous.

Like most similarly situated owners I bought by macbook pro with SSD and became accustomed to experiencing an almost "instant on" boot up. What an impressive feature.

Why would anyone want to trade down after getting used to such an improvement? They wouldn't. Apple clearly designed this OS version inelegantly. I'm a dedicated Apple user, who expects my user experience to always be enhanced, not diminished. Is this an unrealistic goal? No, Apple created this expectation and I've paid for the privilege of enjoying it, since I bought my first Apple, a Mac SE, decades ago.

I got that with the grey background as well.

Besides, does anyone notice that there is a folder called "Recovered files" in the "Trash" every time?

It is a bit annoying.

I saw that folder after the installation completed, haven't seen it since,

Besides, does anyone notice that there is a folder called "Recovered files" in the "Trash" every time

I suspect you'll find that has something to do with Microsoft Orifice.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4962236?tstart=0

I'll like to add that not only an I concerned because I installed Yosemite and at first DID NOT have this bar, and then because the "télécharger" (French Apple Store, means "Install") still showed that I could install, I took it to mean that my install didn't happen or wasn't complete (because when I clicked the arrow that's part of the button next to the word Install, it said to Install if you want the "complete" version (so it confused me).

So I reinstalled Yosemite (also does this mean I have two on my HD?). After this install (which didn't ask me all of the same set up questions, THEN I had the bar. Also, does anyone else have a small "apple" icon in the upper left corner of there screen on the start-up screen as well?

BTW, I have a "black" start-up screen versus the grey of Mavericks & the first Yosemite install I did. I'm concerned and am thinking about contacting Apple today about it. I agree, it doesn't make sense to have a slower start up. What I like the MOST about having a Mac is the fast start up, so if I lose that advantage, sorry...I may drop my MAC use (and I'm a newly converted MAC user.