Leopard is Slow Firing up & Shutting Down
I finally upgraded to Leopard on my 4x2.5 GHz PowerPC G5, with 2GB DDR2 SDRAM.
I'm beginning to wish I'd left well enough alone. But I wanted to install another drive and dedicate Time Machine to it.
I can't believe how slow Leopard is to fire up - and flashes screens at me when doing so...one of which is a blue screen. It finally settles into business and lets me work.
Even worse than that, it takes FOREVER to shut down. It was never this slow shutting down before I installed Leopard (at times close to a minute & that's with all programs closed. I noticed it immediately after the installation. My hard drive has a capacity of 465 GB with 233 available, so I do not believe it's from the hard drive being too full.
Any ideas? Anything you can think of for me to try? At this point, I wish I could go back to Tiger.
I'm beginning to wish I'd left well enough alone. But I wanted to install another drive and dedicate Time Machine to it.
I can't believe how slow Leopard is to fire up - and flashes screens at me when doing so...one of which is a blue screen. It finally settles into business and lets me work.
Even worse than that, it takes FOREVER to shut down. It was never this slow shutting down before I installed Leopard (at times close to a minute & that's with all programs closed. I noticed it immediately after the installation. My hard drive has a capacity of 465 GB with 233 available, so I do not believe it's from the hard drive being too full.
Any ideas? Anything you can think of for me to try? At this point, I wish I could go back to Tiger.
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I don't know what Applejack is either, so will check that out. I guess I could add more memory, but even photoshop was running fine before the upgrade. Actually, it does pretty good too, now...but it's just that I know this thing should fire up and down faster than it is. I see two or three blank, blue screens flash at me during startup and it takes a good 30-40 long seconds to shut down...up to a minute sometimes.
The new iMac I got my other half for Christmas has Leopard on it and it shuts down in a flash. Of course there's not as much happening on his machine.
Thanks again for the suggestions. I'll check on those two programs you mentioned.
-Lela
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