Many thanks Mark, that fixed it. Ed > On 10 May 2015, at 07:00, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Hello Ed, > > I suggest that you reset the system PRAM. > > To reset the PRAM, power on the Mac while pressing Option+Command+R+P until > the startup chime is heard, twice. > > It may be necessary to perform this several times until you are successful. > It can be tricky. > > Good luck, > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edward Green > Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 10:23 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Macbook Air suddenly slow to boot up > > Hi, > > My 2012 Macbook Air has suddenly become slow to boot up. > > I am running Yosemite and have the hard drive encrypted. I used to be able > to enter the password a couple of seconds after the startup sound, but since > last week, I have had to wait around half a minute before the password box > appears. > > I’m not aware of having installed anything in particular over the past seven > days. Does anyone have any ideas about why the machine may have suddenly > become slow to boot and what I might try? The machine does not seem to be any > slower during actual operation. > > Cheers, > > Ed > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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