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<blockquote data-quote="bonds1972" data-source="post: 1577094" data-attributes="member: 324198"><p>Ahhh, that makes perfect sense now. Thanks bobtomay..</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I shutdown and restart my machine every time i finished my work, so that would mean everyday. It's kind of a habit since my PC time.. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>I have around 348.12GB of free HDD space available, and I believe half of that are image files I use to process my photos. The only 'heavy' application I use is CaptureOne, and my iPhoto library is about 66GB in size. </p><p></p><p>Like I mentioned in my previous post, I have tried everything to try to speed up my machine:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hardware<br /> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><br /> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Upgraded my RAM from 4GB to 8GB</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Upgraded my HDD from 250GB to 750GB</li> </ul></p> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Software<br /> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><br /> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Clean install my OS from Mountain Lion to Mavericks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Try every possible thing suggested by google search, deleting caches, deleting .plist, cleaning up my desktop, clearing trash, clear out my login items, reset pram/nvram, etc</li> </ul></p> </li> </ul><p></p><p>It takes around 3 minutes to boot up, since the time I press the power button until the login window. And approximately 1 minute to shutdown, as soon as I click the shutdown button until the white screen disappears.</p><p></p><p>I don't believe it is a hardware problem, because right after I did the Mavericks clean install and before I install any applications and restoring all my data files, it starts up pretty fast (around 30 secs).</p><p></p><p>Not sure what I'm doing wrong here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bonds1972, post: 1577094, member: 324198"] Ahhh, that makes perfect sense now. Thanks bobtomay.. I shutdown and restart my machine every time i finished my work, so that would mean everyday. It's kind of a habit since my PC time.. ;) I have around 348.12GB of free HDD space available, and I believe half of that are image files I use to process my photos. The only 'heavy' application I use is CaptureOne, and my iPhoto library is about 66GB in size. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I have tried everything to try to speed up my machine: [LIST] [*]Hardware [INDENT] [LIST] [*]Upgraded my RAM from 4GB to 8GB [*]Upgraded my HDD from 250GB to 750GB [/LIST] [/INDENT] [*]Software [INDENT] [LIST] [*]Clean install my OS from Mountain Lion to Mavericks [*]Try every possible thing suggested by google search, deleting caches, deleting .plist, cleaning up my desktop, clearing trash, clear out my login items, reset pram/nvram, etc [/LIST] [/INDENT] [/LIST] It takes around 3 minutes to boot up, since the time I press the power button until the login window. And approximately 1 minute to shutdown, as soon as I click the shutdown button until the white screen disappears. I don't believe it is a hardware problem, because right after I did the Mavericks clean install and before I install any applications and restoring all my data files, it starts up pretty fast (around 30 secs). Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. [/QUOTE]
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