10.8: A fix for slow shutdown times

Apr 08, '13 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

At first my MacBook Air would shut down in one or two seconds. A year or so ago it started taking thirty seconds or more. Annoying but hardly fatal. Anyway, I found a trick that helped me:

This returned the Mac to an almost instantaneous shutdown.

[crarko adds: This makes sense, and if you have a lot of open window states to be saved that would obviously impact the shutdown time. Still, sometimes the obvious is worth pointing out. This tip should probably apply to 10.7 as well.

Hello again, I'm filling in once more this week while Kirk is otherwise occupied -- Craig A.]

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