Mac Air takes a very long time when manually putting to sleep

I put my Mac Air in sleep mode from the apple icon after Im dont using it but sometimes takes a very long time to shut down. Then Im not sure if sometimes it goes into sleep mode by itself first. My mac notebook as soon as you hit sleep it shut down instantly. Anyone else have this problem?

Similar Messages

My macbook air takes a very long time to start how can I fix this?

It was fine when I turned it off and the next day when I was starting my computer it took for ever. How can this be fixed. I didn't install anything or made any changes.

Here are a couple of suggestions that I've used to speed up my Air when it seems to slow down
- Try lowering the number of start-up programs. To do this go to System Preferences, click on the Users and Groups option and then go into the Login Items tab. From here you can delete any of the programs that you don't really need when you're first starting up.
- Your system might have a lot of cache and junk files. To clean these out I use a third party tool called CleanMyMac. This one needs a paid license but I'm sure there are other ones, maybe even free ones if you looked hard enough.
- Your hard drive could just be over cluttered. The thing with MBA's is that they have such small capacity hard drives in comparison to other MacBooks. You should usually keep 20GB of free space or more if possible. The more free space you have, the better. You could do this by deleting any of your unwanted documents, pictures, videos, etc. and that can help up your system speed. Another option would be to store whatever you can on an external hard drive or something along those lines.
- Lastly, you can go into System Preferences and disable anything that you don't use regularly. For example I've got bluetooth disabled because I rarely use it.
Hope I helped!
-Matt

I have a 5.4 tb external hard (1.87 tb used) drive, which seems to take a very long time when the Time Machine is in the cleaning up phase, why?

I am wondering why the Time Machine gets stuck during the Cleaning Up phase of Backing Up???

Hallo Kieth ,
I am not quite ready to restore the full iphoto library , as I have days of work re - imputting titles,descriptions and enhancement . I hope that your suggestion works , as I use my Macbook basically to work with digital photography. Through time , I will need to delete my library to recover more disc space and I would hate to have to spend more time re - imputting titles and descriptions all over again .
Thanks for your interest and advice.
regards - Alan

Why is it that it would take a very long time [if ever] to change or adjust the tempo of a loop in the audio track when i set it to adjust regions to locators? Until now the spinning wheel of death is still very much spinning. thanks for any help. Is th

Why is it that it would take a very long time [if ever] to change or adjust the tempo of a loop in the audio track when i set it to adjust regions to locators? Until now the spinning wheel of death is still very much spinning. thanks for any help.
Is there another way to adjust tempo of loops the faster way, any other technique?

No clue why the final processes have suddenly started to take so long. Two things I'd try: a) capture from an older tape to see if some problem with the new tape is at fault. And b) check the health of your RAM and the hard drive.
The red frame sounds a bit like a glitch we used to have in OnLocation (actually in its predecessor HDV Rack) which was caused by a partial GOP. But that was a product of HDV Rack recording from the live video stream. It turned out that HDV cameras intentionally interrupt the data stream for an instant upon starting to record--specifically to avoid recording a partial GOP to tape. So my gut says that the tape has partial GOPs at the points where you stopped/started recording.

I have a keynote presentation that includes a significant amount of video. When I edit the keynote slides (not the video slides) how can I save the changes without re-saving the videos (because that takes a VERY long time)?

I have a keynote presentation that includes a significant amount of video. When I edit the keynote slides (not the video slides) how can I save the changes without re-saving the videos (because that takes a VERY long time)? I edit the presentation depending on the audience to which I am presenting.

If you add a new slide with just a text box (therefore a very small amount of data), to an existing presentation then save, Keynote will only save the new content to the file, it wont save pre-existing content as its already included in the file.
The time taken to "save" will be very much shorter than a "save as" when all of the existing content is saved again.

Macbook Pro, bought 2012, takes a very long time to start up/restart (5 mins). How do I fix this?

My Macbook Pro, bought 2012, takes a very long time to start up/restart (5 mins) every single time I have shut it down. I try not to shut it down at all now because once or twice, I have got a grey screen, and then nothing. I've held down the power button to shut down again and restart How do I fix all this?

Start up with your built-in Recovery disk by holding down the Command and R keys when starting. Open Disk Utility from there and use it to REPAIR your disk (you've already verified it and it came up with errors).
With any luck, your problems will be solved. While I was there, I would also repair permissions.
Good luck,
Clinton

Why do the mac updates take a ridiculously long time

why do the mac updates take a ridiculously long time? 10 hours? this is ridiculous - my ISP is 40mbps

Which updates were you trying to get? If you are going to a very busy web site or server, the connections could be extremely slow. But to wait so long invites troubles.
If the machine is terribly slow, that should be an indication some maintenance or repair may be needed first. Some keyboard shortcuts can be used to check and attempt repair, and the problem likely is in the Mac.
Everything from the amount of RAM installed, to the total capacity of the HDD (or SSD) vs free or unused space on the drive, is important to the function of the OS X. Or there may be an issue, if the OS X checks out OK, in the internet connection. If you use wireless mostly, check the connections by wire instead.
Try to not get into a position where you end up using 'force quit' if the computer appears to freeze up. In the process of an update or upgrade, that's almost never a positive outcome.
Good luck & happy computing!

Why it takes a very long time while itunes backup my iphone?

I am using a iPhone 5S with iOS8.
When I sync it with itunes, step 2 of 7, Backing up, takes a very long time, it took more than a hour.
Is something goes wrong??

Try unchecking "Automactically fill free space with songs"

It takes a very long time to download an app on my iPad 3

It takes a very long time to download an app on my iPad 3. My WiFi is OK, and the first 75 % of the program downloads in a fast way, but then it nearly stops. The rest (25%) takes such a long time to install

my e-mail is [email protected]

Since itunes and apple tvs latest update I have had problem wtching movies on apple tv via my itunes can any one help, movie takes a very long time to load sometimes never, it use to work really well, whats going on please help?

Since itunes and apple tvs latest update I have had problem wtching movies on apple tv via my itunes can any one help, movie takes a very long time to load sometimes never, it use to work really well, whats going on please help?

You might find useful information in item D1 of Time Machine Troubleshooting.

Takes a very long time to load pages and is laggy

The new''' FF (4) '''was good at first, but recently it is starting to lack the goodness it once had.
'''It is becoming slower and slower by the day and takes a very long time to load pages. Sometimes the "loading" icon circles for 5 minutes, and whether the page loads or not depends on my luck at that time.'''
Also, it has become seriously '''laggy''':
'''Scrolling''' up and down, typing and '''filling out forms''' (like writing this message) etc have slowed down.
I have deleted the history, and cleared the cache, but to no avail.
Could it be some of the add-ons?
Or is it that FF4 was all hyped up and '''''can't stand to it's name'''''? :)
Please help.
Info: Vista 64-bit, 4GB ram, 2.33GHZ....can't be my computer!

You could try to disable this feature for now by toggling this pref on the <b>about:config</b> page:
*devtools.debugger.source-maps-enabled = false

After upgrading to iOS 5, my iPhone 4 takes a very long time to open digitally signed emails. I've tried with the SMIME settings enabled, but that doesn't help either. Any ideas on how to resolve this? Thanks in advance.

After upgrading to iOS 5, my iPhone 4 takes a very long time to open digitally signed emails. I've tried with the SMIME settings enabled, but that doesn't help either. Any ideas on how to resolve this? Thanks in advance.

I suspect you may have a corrupt photo or image that is causing the sync to fail or quit. You might want to try removing all of your photos by deselecting them in iTunes then sync - and try adding them by each sub-folders until you are able to nail down which sub-folder of photos, that causes the sync to stop or gives you errors.

After installing Lion my time machine using a Time capsule backups take a very long time, particularly indexing the back up, does any one know why and a fix?

I have installed Lion over Snow Leopard and noticed a marked increase in the time it takes my time capsule/time machine to back up. It seems to spend a very long time indexing the back up. Does any one know why and more importantly is there a "fix"?

The first index with Lion takes a very long time. Could take over 10 hours. You just have to wait. You can see the progress by opening Console and entering backupd in the search box

Brand New Installation of Snow Leopard Takes A Very Long Time To Log In

Hello All
I installed Snow Leopard onto a friends computer this past weekend and I have run into a strange issue. The computer in question is a Black MacBook 2.16 GHz with 2GB of RAM. The first thing I did was to back up the computer to an external hard drive using TimeMachine. Next, I formatted the drive and zeroed out all of the data. I then installed Mac OS X 10.6 onto the computer. During the initial boot process, I restored the applications, home directory, and misc. files from the TimeMachine backup. The first login took an extremely long time to log in. I figured that the Mac was sorting out the newly restored files and home directory and such and this was probably normal. Then I ran all of the software updates to get the machine completely current. When I rebooted, it took a really long time to log in. I thought maybe the machine was sorting out and installing the new updates (even though it has never taken this long on my MacBook. So I started up from the Snow Leopard install CD and ran DiskUtility and repaired the disk and permissions. Upon another reboot (I timed it this time) it, again, took a very long time ... *8.5 minutes!* I'm at my wits end and am thinking about rebuilding the machine again to see if this build is better. Also, as far as I can tell, the System is working perfectly once I get logged in; no spinning beach ball, hangs, kernel panics or what have you. Also, the machine didn't have this issue before I rebuilt it. Has anybody ever heard of this before? If so, is there a nice fix for it?
Thank you all for reading and have a good day.

Check /System/Library/StartupItems & /Library/StartupItems on the Black MacBook. Any items in either folder is not part of the Snow Leopard install & may be causing the slow starts. Also check System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items, especially if the log in screen comes up quickly & most of the delay is after entering the account password. It is normal to see the iTunes Helper app login item, but any others may be causing the delay, especially if they are not fully compatible with Snow Leopard or are apps that require Rosetta to start up before they will run. The same goes for any items n the "Others" section of System Preferences.
Message was edited by: R C-R

New Photos App take a very long time to upload 20 Pictures, while the Activity Monitor is showing much more data sent (MB) than these two pictues

The New photos app is taking a very long time to upload images. It stays a very long time at 20,104 for example. When I check the Activity Monitor (Network) it shows that the computer is actually uploading stuff. After about 2 hours, only 20 Pics&Videos are uploaded. The uploaded pics and videos are about 500MB while the data sent is around 1GB. I am positive that Photos is the only thing uploading data at the moment.
Anyone else facing this problem?

It can take days, even weeks.
Tell me 2 things and I will tell you the estimated upload time.
1 How big is your Library (in GB)
2 How fast is your upload speed.
Or you can just use the upload time calculator and do it yourself

Mac Air takes a very long time when manually putting to sleep

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for