{"id":4021,"date":"2012-04-25T20:50:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2012-04-25T20:50:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:50:36","slug":"slow-or-infinitely-long-shutdowns-on-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/slow-or-infinitely-long-shutdowns-on-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow or Infinitely Long Shutdowns on Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought I&#8217;d share a potential solution for a problem that I faced today.<\/p>\n<p>The copy of Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro had never been activated and given that I hadn&#8217;t used it in ages I thought I&#8217;d wipe it and replace the Windows installations on the laptop with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. In order to tackle this task I simply booted off the Windows 8 DVD, formatted the Boot Camp partition and let Windows 8 complete the installation.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s there things started to go a bit weird.<\/p>\n<p>After rebooting Windows 8 after completing installation it&#8217;d hang on boot and never reach the Start Screen. Booting into Mac OS X seemed to work fine but when shutting down or restarting it&#8217;d get stuck on a spinning animation and never actually shut down or restart which meant I had to resort to holding down the power button to turn off the laptop completely.<\/p>\n<p>So, what did I do to fix it?<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, I removed the Boot Camp partition from my computer through the Boot Camp Assistant in Mac OS X which grew the partition for Mac OS X to take up the entire drive. I then ran the Boot Camp Assistant again with the Windows 8 disc in the optical drive and let it kick off the Windows 8 installation. Once done I also managed to install the Boot Camp software and drivers under Windows 8 without a problem (seems like a number of people have had issues in the past requiring manual installation of each driver and software package).<\/p>\n<p>One other thing that I have noticed is that my MacBook Pro did seem to run a little hotter under Windows 8 than Mac OS X but I&#8217;ll have to do some more extensive testing to see if that still occurs after installing all of the right drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if the above hasn&#8217;t worked you can also try <a title=\"There Was a Problem Installing Mac OS X (Lion) | Boydo's Tech Talk\" href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/there-was-a-problem-installing-mac-os-x-lion\/\" target=\"_blank\">resetting the PRAM on your Mac by following these instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought I&#8217;d share a potential solution for a problem that I faced today. The copy of Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro had never been activated and given that I hadn&#8217;t used it in ages I thought I&#8217;d wipe it and replace the Windows installations on the laptop with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/slow-or-infinitely-long-shutdowns-on-mac-os-x\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96,93,348,152,151,94,92,18,1374],"tags":[10,1898,1595,2361],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvd-rom","category-hard-drive","category-macos","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-optical","category-storage","category-technology","category-windows-8","tag-apple","tag-boot-camp","tag-mac-os-x","tag-windows-8","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Mac-Logo.png?fit=256%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}