My imac takes about eight minutes to be fully functional after a cold start or from the sleep mode. The hard drive sounds like it has to go through a number of gyrations before being fully loaded. When I first bought the imac start up was much faster

My Imac takes about 8 minutes to be fully functional after a restart or awakened from the sleep mode. I can hear the hard drive making a number of gyrations before it's ready to let me do stuff. This is a 5 year old machine and was much faster in the beginning. Any suggestions?

Impossible to say however it may need more RAM, or if you have been turning it off every day it isn't given the opportunity to run it's daily, weekly and monthly maintenance. This is all done in the background in the middle of the night. I would recommend following the steps in 25 Ways to Speed Up Your Mac until you find the cause of your slowdown.

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Hard drive sounds like it's about to take flight...won't boot at all.

Got one for ya. I just updated my G4 to 10.4.7 and now when I boot:
1) Button lights up
2) Hard drive sounds like a teen driving a Ferrari to prom in first gear.
- that's it. No screen, mouse, keyboard, start-up noise ( I so miss that wonderful "BONG!" noise, now. ) Nothing.
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tia,
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Starnerg wrote:
I intend to use it as a backup. Im not goint to be using the Windows computer anymore. I plan on copying over GB's worth of folders. Im not sure what "TM" is...
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are you using sample base instruments in those projects a lot using exs or kontakt? when paths to samples get messed up for some reason it can result in along waiting times each time a project is loaded.
lately my kontakt samples get loaded without any sign of activity. if it is a large orchestral score i see a dead screen for quite a while before suddenly everything pops up and is ready to work with. i recall seeing progress bars or similar things in the past though...
repair permissions and defragging (idefrag) may help as well.
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My 2011 Imac takes 5-6 minutes to boot up. Once it boots up the computer seems to run fine. I have tried several things to try and fix the issue but have had no luck. Any advice would be great.
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Richard

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2. Data Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. SyncTwoFolders
6. Synk Pro
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Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
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Referenced software can be found at CNet Downloads or MacUpdate.
Additional Hints
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some hours ago I worked on a logic film underscore project. so i had a quicktime movie loaded in my project.
then I opened the final cut project from which the movie was from. I don't remember if I closed the logic project before, but the actual movie file was just a bounce, not used by both of the apps.
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