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Intel iMac suddenly taking 10+ minutes to start up
Giga Gopher
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I've just noticed recently that my iMac has been taking a very long time to start up. I push the power button and it goes the the grey screen with the apple logo and that little spinny "loading" symbol. It stays there for a couple of minutes before going to the light blue screen which it stays at for about 7-8 minutes before the mouse appears, and finally the Finder.
I haven't installed anything recently and my only login item is SizzlingKeys4iTunes (it enables custom hotkey controls for iTunes); I've had that as a login item for years now.
What should I do? I've been thinking that reinstalling OS X would fix it right up but I'd like to know if there was something quicker I could do.
I haven't installed anything recently and my only login item is SizzlingKeys4iTunes (it enables custom hotkey controls for iTunes); I've had that as a login item for years now.
What should I do? I've been thinking that reinstalling OS X would fix it right up but I'd like to know if there was something quicker I could do.
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Yup yup, do this.
Also standard answer to any odd mac issue, have you checked your disc permissions?
Except when you try and do an OS update (say, from 10.4.8 to 10.4.9) and you forgot to do a permissions repair before running the installer... then when it reboots you find it won't load up OSX (just sits forever at the grey screen, or panics)... i've found you can usually save it with a fsck (or a disk repair, for those who like their GUIs. It is a mac after all) though.
Anyway, if you've got your OS disk handy, pop it in and boot off it, then run up Disk Utility (I think it's in the tools menu... It'll be up there somewhere anyway) and give a disk repair a shot.
This is a myth that's been spun out of what was originally said by Mac-gurus. "Disk permissions is not a panacea" was the original meaning: it won't fix everything. This was back in the day when people were still looking for active things to do when stuff didn't work right. Pressing as many buttons labelled "repair" as possible made people feel better.
However, for things like programs booting slowly, programs not being able to write to places, after upgrades and such, repairing permissions can help, because if there are files that aren't read/writeable that should be, these sort of behaviours can crop up.