Hi, Usually, right after an install of Mavericks, there is optimizing of your HD/SSD and indexing of the files that goes on for the first while in the background. Just leave your computer logged in for a bit and this will continue doing its thing and the slowness/busy-ness should go away.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 1, 2014, at 11:44 AM, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > I would not say its slow, but rather, its busy doing something that did not > happen in Mountain Lion. I have not added anything new to Mavericks so not > sure what it is. Whatever it is, its causing VO to stutter badly but after > about 30 seconds, its ok. Cold boot or restart, same thing. > > From The Believer. . . > . . . what if it were true? > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > > On 10/1/2014 9:14 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: >> Hi! >> I thought i was alone with this slowlyness thing with voiceover at startup. >> I wonder if it has to do with how old the mac is. >> And ofcourse how much to load at startup. >> I have a mac mini with 8 Gb of ram. >> mid 2011. >> /A >> 1 okt 2014 kl. 05:59 skrev The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com>: >> >>> Finally upgraded to >>> >>> Mavericks 10.9.5 from >>> >>> Mountain Lion. >>> >>> Some things I would like to >>> >>> address. One, at least once, >>> >>> when starting from a cold boot. >>> >>> Finder crashed and I had >>> >>> trouble using Voiceover to get >>> >>> out of it. >>> >>> Also the App Store crashed when I ran it from the Apple menu, sent report >>> to Apple. >>> >>> Did some more cold boots >>> >>> and while Finder did not crash >>> >>> again it appears that something >>> >>> is going on after the login but >>> >>> things settle down, I would >>> >>> say, in about 15-20 seconds. >>> >>> During this time Voiceover is >>> >>> sort of choppy. This did not >>> >>> happen in Mountain Lion. >>> >>> While checking out this OS, >>> >>> there are some oddities. One, >>> >>> when in Launchpad for instance, >>> >>> when navigating, sometimes an >>> >>> item is spoken twice but not all >>> >>> of them and not each time I >>> >>> navigate to one that had been >>> >>> spoken twice. I have been >>> >>> experimenting with verbosity >>> >>> but not sure how to get the >>> >>> right balance between hearing >>> >>> too much and not enough. >>> >>> Overall the upgrade seems good except for the above. >>> >>> From The Believer. . . >>> . . . what if it were true? >>> ancient.ali...@icloud.com >>> >>> -- >>> 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. -- 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.
