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  • Re: Slow login in Tiger

    From Simon Slavin@slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co.uk to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac on Friday, April 07, 2006 22:11:13
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    On 05/04/2006, Jim Webster wrote in message <C05888E4.4BEC%jsibleywebster@mindspring.com>:

    Hi, I'm running 10.4.5 on an iMac halfdome. Three users are installed on
    the system; my wife and son have no trouble logging on, but when I do,
    the login is painfully slow--it takes nearly half an hour for my desktop
    to come up!

    Do you have any drives or folders in the Dock ?

    Simon.
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  • From Hugh Gibbons@party@myhouse.com to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac on Sunday, April 09, 2006 04:04:00
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <e16n31$90b$4$830fa795@news.demon.co.uk>,
    Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@hearsay.demon.co.uk>
    wrote:

    On 05/04/2006, Jim Webster wrote in message <C05888E4.4BEC%jsibleywebster@mindspring.com>:

    Hi, I'm running 10.4.5 on an iMac halfdome. Three users are installed on the system; my wife and son have no trouble logging on, but when I do,
    the login is painfully slow--it takes nearly half an hour for my desktop
    to come up!

    Do you have any drives or folders in the Dock ?

    Simon.

    I have both my Documents folder and my Applications folder on the Dock
    and my 500 MHz G3 iMac loads my login in seconds, not minutes. I doubt
    that's the problem.

    I would try bypassing login items. Hold down the shift key while
    logging in to prevent the login items from loading. If this makes
    login normally fast, your problem is in your login items. Find the
    one that's causing the trouble and disable it.

    (You'll find these in System Preferences->Accounts->Login Items)


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