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Im not making fun of the other threads. The past couple of days when i shut down my macpro, the dock and top navigation bar disappear and it just shows my background. I have to hold the power button to shut it down. Has this happened to anyone else? I don't wanna call apple support because they're idiots.

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[bsamoul]

sounds like a program isn't quitting

[darkphantom]

lol, is this thread fo real?

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what do you think it might be? I usually have final cut pro running most of the time. Ohh and i have littlesnitch too but i doubt its that because of that, it worked fine before.

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Originally Posted by darkphantom

lol, is this thread fo real?

Ya man lol

[darkphantom]

I'd help you, but you know....MACs are supposed to be intuitive, so I can't use them =/

I have to deal with PCs...you know...the hard stuff -_-

if it were a PC, generally you have a task manager where you can see what is running and what might be causing the problem, MACs? no clue.

[bsamoul]

It could also be the OS hanging up, maybe you updated software recently and something went wrong

[endofanera7]

Mac = Ftl

Pc = Ftw

[EZ_TUR90]

Wusup Taron. It could be from Final Cut Pro, when I installed in mine it would take a good 10 minutes to bootup and shutdown. Which Final Cut do you have, and are you importing footage from a HD cam?

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Originally Posted by bsamoul

It could also be the OS hanging up, maybe you updated software recently and something went wrong

do you think it might be because i've been running the shit out of it for the past week? It was rendering a 3D animation for like 3 nights, and ive been editing a video during the day lol. Is there like a defragment program for leopard? I know there was one on xp and sped it up pretty well

[.:bHd:.]

Originally Posted by EZ_TUR90

Wusup Taron. It could be from Final Cut Pro, when I installed in mine it would take a good 10 minutes to bootup and shutdown. Which Final Cut do you have, and are you importing footage from a HD cam?

I have FCP 6 and i import the footage from a Sony HDV deck. I have the deck connected to a broadcast monitor and those 2 are on most of the time too. Ive been running this setup for a while now i dont know why this just started happening

[EZ_TUR90]

It could be that you were editing it for 3 days but I highly doubt it, once I transferred my footage to an external hard drive it started booting up normally.

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Ya I'm gonna start deleting some useless files to see if that'll help.

[snipersix]

Originally Posted by .:bHd:.

Im not making fun of the other threads. The past couple of days when i shut down my macpro, the dock and top navigation bar disappear and it just shows my background. I have to hold the power button to shut it down. Has this happened to anyone else? I don't wanna call apple support because they're idiots.

Try zapping your PRAM by restarting your computer
and hold down command+option+P+R

you should here a sound, hold it down till you hear the sound 3x then let go. See if that fixes your problem.

[inabis]

Download Onyx and run the tests...it'll tell you whats up. Also, shut down your computer and reset the PRAM and such (Onyx will help you). As long as Onyx says your good, you'll be fine. Otherwise, it'll tell you what the problem is. Good luck.

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html


Edit: Haha I got sniped by sniper 6

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Originally Posted by inabis

Download Onyx and run the tests...it'll tell you whats up. Also, shut down your computer and reset the PRAM and such (Onyx will help you). As long as Onyx says your good, you'll be fine. Otherwise, it'll tell you what the problem is. Good luck.

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html


Edit: Haha I got sniped by sniper 6

I have Onyx and have no idea why i didn't use it this time lol. Thanks for the help I'll run it after work

[b335i]

Try Yasu....it has fixed a few MP's that I have encountered with the same problem.

[Greeney]

Just leave it, its part of the OS shut down procedure. Although if it sits like that for over 30 mins, check software update and such.

[PLAYON]

Originally Posted by .:bHd:.

Im not making fun of the other threads. The past couple of days when i shut down my macpro, the dock and top navigation bar disappear and it just shows my background. I have to hold the power button to shut it down. Has this happened to anyone else? I don't wanna call apple support because they're idiots.

Go to Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor

This program is like pressing CTRL+ALT+DELETE for PCs, it will give you a list of whats running on your macbook, and where your resources are being used up, etc. . .Sort by %CPU and you can see what programs are dominating your memory, and preventing your system from shutting down.

[bsamoul]

you can also go to disk utility and run permissions tests and stuff. i would try that too