Re: Delay after "welcom to voicdOver" message

2018-07-17 Thread Chris Moore
Hello, Just for something to try, I reset the energy saver preferences to factory defaults and the situation improved considerably. I have a hard drive in this mac mini with no SSD. I’ll continue monitoring the situation. Thanks for all you responses. Chris > On Jul 11, 2018, at 11:58 AM, 'E.

Re: Delay after "welcom to voicdOver" message

2018-07-11 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Login options might also be worth a look at to see what apps are listed. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.| --Carl Sagan On 7/11/2018 8:00 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: As others have men

Re: Delay after "welcom to voicdOver" message

2018-07-11 Thread Jonathan Cohn
As others have mentioned, I would suspect a piece of code that is waiting forI/O probably network based that is not occurring or takes a while to get in sync. If you turn off WiFi and disconnect any physical ethernet connections to you still have a delay? Usually on my systems I get a few mentio

Re: Delay after "welcom to voicdOver" message

2018-07-11 Thread matthew dyer
Also, Do you have any apps like dropbox installed?  Here on my imac 2013 my machine comes up and only takes a few seconds to load the finder.  I did do a clean install as I have had some issues with my machine booting, but a restore saulved things and now all is well. Matthew On 07/11/20

Re: Delay after "welcom to voicdOver" message

2018-07-11 Thread 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries
Hi Chris. How old is your Mac? Perhaps it is trying to keep up with the OS. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 11, 2018, at 8:39 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > > Hello, > After I hear the welcome to voiceOver message, there is a long delay (at > least 2 minutes) before I can open apps or use the finder.

Delay after "welcom to voicdOver" message

2018-07-11 Thread Chris Moore
Hello, After I hear the welcome to voiceOver message, there is a long delay (at least 2 minutes) before I can open apps or use the finder. I’d like to understand what is causing this delay and whether I can do anything about it. TIA Chris -- The following information is important for all memb