90-second login?

[DonEnright@telu]

Hi- my apologies if this has been dealt with a million times.

I'm running 10.3.5 on an emac, G4 1gHz with 256 of RAM.

A couple hundred fonts were recently installed on my computer. Now it takes me 90 seconds to log in.

So I go to Fontbook and disable all fonts (except system) and it takes me 90 seconds to log in. I don't get it!

help.

thanks much

Don

 

[Cheryl]

Do you have automatic login set? Where does it seem to hang? While it starts up, you should see the status on the screen. That will give a possible hint.

Have you repaired permissions? While logged in, go to the Utility folder and run Disk Utility to repair permissions on your drive (the second icon at the left).

 

[DonEnright@telu]

Thanks for your help. Yes, I have repared permissions to no avail.

The boot-up is fine- all the processes zip along. Then I get to the log-in screen, choose my profile, log in, and get the technicolor beach ball show for 90 seconds.

d

 

[Cheryl]

Go to Home>Library>Preferences
Trash
com.apple.finder.plist

Restart, see if the problem goes away.

 

[DonEnright@telu]

Well, that brought it down to 75 seconds.


I appreciate the suggestions! Keep 'em coming.

thanks again

don

 

[Jason]

IIRC putting fonts in font book, whether turned off or on, they will still load into the system's cache or something, for quick usage when turned on...

but i may be full of it...

this is why i still use suitcase instead of fontbook... sloooow

 

[Cheryl]

Do you really need all those fonts?

 

[DonEnright@telu]

OK I took all the new fonts out of the system library and put them in my parter's own library, and that fixed it. Of course, I no longer have all these fabulous fonts but I'd rather have my log-in time back.

 

[Satcomer]

Well, determine what kind of font(s) they are. Maybe a good font utility could fix them for you.

 

[bobw]

Try putting the Fonts in the;

user>library>fonts

 

[DonEnright@telu]

Follow up:

Using Fontagent Pro instead of Fontbook. Problem solved.

 

[fryke]

Yep. FontBook is okay if we're talking ~5-15 custom fonts. If you want/need more, you'll soon give a third party utility a try. I still hope Apple will overhaul FontBook. Up until FontBook 1.0 Apple had basically _no_ way to handle fonts (but manually), but FontBook just didn't hold its promise. I'm waiting for 2.0, as I'm interested in what Apple thinks it can do with font handling...