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From: Tinkerer Atlarge on 5 Apr 2010 20:19 My powerpc mac (OSX 10.4.11) suddenly takes a lot longer to shut down. This might have been caused by auto-updates to Safari 4.0.5 or iTunes 9.1. I can't think of any other reason. Does anyone know a way to make it shut down faster ?
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?= on 5 Apr 2010 21:25 Tinkerer Atlarge <tinkerer(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > My powerpc mac (OSX 10.4.11) suddenly takes a lot longer to shut down. > This might have been caused by auto-updates to Safari 4.0.5 or iTunes > 9.1. I can't think of any other reason. > > Does anyone know a way to make it shut down faster ? Could it be that it's taking longer to log off than to actually shut down? Try logging out of your primary user account and then shut down from the login window or from a different user account. Is that any faster? PS shutting a Mac down is really only necessary if you need to remove the battery (laptop) or unplug it (desktop). If you don't need to do either of those, you would probably benefit from using sleep mode instead of shutting down. -- K. Lang may your lum reek.
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 6 Apr 2010 16:23 Király wrote: > Tinkerer Atlarge <tinkerer(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> My powerpc mac (OSX 10.4.11) suddenly takes a lot longer to shut down. >> This might have been caused by auto-updates to Safari 4.0.5 or iTunes >> 9.1. I can't think of any other reason. >> >> Does anyone know a way to make it shut down faster ? > > Could it be that it's taking longer to log off than to actually shut > down? Try logging out of your primary user account and then shut down > from the login window or from a different user account. Is that any > faster? > > PS shutting a Mac down is really only necessary if you need to remove > the battery (laptop) or unplug it (desktop). If you don't need to do > either of those, you would probably benefit from using sleep mode > instead of shutting down. It looks as if the OP's Mac could be a G4, and then there are lots of problems to let it go to sleep, since sleep isn't supported with mounted extra PCI cards such as USB 2.0, SCSI or Firewire cards... My guess is that more log and/or cache files are open or very large activity log files are not stored or deleted, caches not emptied, and the temporary files are not deleted at close down. It is known that temp files sometimes can cause this especially on 10.3.x and 10.4.x on G4s. - Some of my friends have the exact same problem with their older dual G4/533mhz, so I'll have to go out there to see, if I'm right about my thoughts.... MainMenu 1.7.4 can delete all these stored caches, temp files and more, - if you can find the ver. 1.7.4 anymore. The new ver. 2.x is no longer freeware. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Jolly Roger on 6 Apr 2010 20:44 In article <1jgiv8b.1j8is5s9mdov9N%tinkerer(a)optusnet.com.au>, tinkerer(a)optusnet.com.au (Tinkerer Atlarge) wrote: > My powerpc mac (OSX 10.4.11) suddenly takes a lot longer to shut down. > This might have been caused by auto-updates to Safari 4.0.5 or iTunes > 9.1. I can't think of any other reason. > > Does anyone know a way to make it shut down faster ? I'm betting a peek at the /var/log/system.log file would tell you exactly why it's taking so long. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Tinkerer Atlarge on 6 Apr 2010 22:12
Kir�ly <me(a)home.spamsucks.ca> wrote: > Tinkerer Atlarge <tinkerer(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > My powerpc mac (OSX 10.4.11) suddenly takes a lot longer to shut down. > > This might have been caused by auto-updates to Safari 4.0.5 or iTunes > > 9.1. I can't think of any other reason. > > > > Does anyone know a way to make it shut down faster ? > > Could it be that it's taking longer to log off than to actually shut > down? Try logging out of your primary user account and then shut down > from the login window or from a different user account. Is that any > faster? Makes no difference. > PS shutting a Mac down is really only necessary if you need to remove > the battery (laptop) or unplug it (desktop). If you don't need to do > either of those, you would probably benefit from using sleep mode > instead of shutting down. Unfortunately I am currently doing something which requires frequent reboots.. Cheers |