Mavericks Takes 4-5 Minutes to Boot

Question

I recently reinstalled Mavericks on my iMac and transferred my settings/datas from a Time Machine backup. Everything seems to run just fine, but it takes 4-5 minutes to boot. I thought it could have something to do with permissions and ACLs since I also changed my home folder name. After following step 1 provided here http://discussions.apple.com/thread/5275515?tstart=0 my system took the usual 15-30 seconds to reboot on the first try but back to 4-5 minutes each time afterwards.
Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks!

Answer 1

you are welcome
Are you familiar with using the root account under OSX ?
If not, here is how to enable it:
in Finder click on Go in menu
at the top of the Screen  from the Go menu select Computer
there click on Macintosh HD <if your harddisk has a different name, choose that name instead>
click on System
click on Library
click on CoreServices
open the app named Directory Utility
in Directory Utility click on Edit in menu at the top of the Screen
from the Edit menu select Enable Root User
you will be asked  to enter a password for root
if you want to keep the root account active afterwards, choose a secure and strong password
Now let's get back to the original problem:
Let's assume your current account is called Waldorf and the new one is called Stadler
Log out of your current account and log into the root account
Now open Terminal from the /Programs/Utilities folder
Enter the following commands into terminal one at a time:
cd /Users/waldorf
cp -Rpv Documents/* /Users/stadler/Documents/
cp -Rpv Movies/* /Users/stadler/Movies/
cp -Rpb Music/* /Users/stadler/Music/
cp -Rpv Pictures/* /Users/stadler/Pictures/
Depending on the amount of data contained in Waldorf's home directory, those commands might take some time to complete. Now you need to change the owner of your files to the new account
cd /Users/stadler/
chown -R stadler:staff Documents/
chown -R stadler:staff Downloads/
chown -R stadler:staff Movies/
chown -R stadler:staff Music/
chown -R stadler:staff Pictures/
chown -R stadler:staff Public/
If everything went well, you now can log into the Stadler account and should have all the files from Waldorf and hopefully boot time will be significantly shorter.
It is generally not a bad idea to deactivate the root account again after you have finished. Working with root allows to do things that normally cannot be done in Finder. Yet there is absolutely no safety net (such as the trash bin) and a slight mistake can have grave consequences. If need rises it can be activate in a short moment.