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Slow boot time on mac osx el capitan

I am running El Capitan on a mid-2012 MB Pro with 4 GB RAM. The OS runs perfectly once booted, very fast and no issues. But, the boot time has gone from about 5 seconds to sometimes almost 2 minutes. I checked Activity Monitor after boot time and using about 2.3GB out of 4GB. I have tried the following based on everything I have researched:


1. Reset the PRAM

2. Set the startup disk properly

3. Ensured nothing is set up to load at startup

4. Disabled Spotlight (due to concerns about indexing)

5. Reset the mail logs


Nothing has worked to improve boot time. I really don't wont to reinstall everything. There has to be a solution here.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 27, 2015 5:16 AM

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User profile for user: leroydouglas
leroydouglas
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Dec 1, 2015 5:39 PM in response to JimLemieux

Is this an SSD or HD or a fusion drive(s)?


Your 5 secs boot time seems incredibly fast even for a SSD.


You can verify your Macintosh HD is selected in the StartUp Manger


>System Preferences>StartUp Disk


You can perform a safeboot to clean system caches SafeBoot http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564


You can Try resetting the SMC http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964



Disabled Spotlight (due to concerns about indexing)

This does not seem to be the answer, once indexing is done it is a none issue—and is quite a handy feature on many fronts.




MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan(10.11.1), i7 480GB SSD 16GB RAM iPhone5 iOS9.1, Parallels10.0.2

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Slow boot time on mac osx el capitan

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