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My Early MacBook Pro 13 with i5 and 8GB RAM would start very quickly on older OS versions.
Ever since the Big Sur update, I get this strange loading bar and it takes considerably more to boot up once I enter my password.
It seriously went from 5-7 seconds to some 20seconds.
I ran a clean instal (and reset to factory settings) of Big Sur. As well as PRAM and SMC reset.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.1
Disconnect any external drives and restart in Safe Mode ( Shift ) key immediately at startup. It will do a Disk Repair, clean cache files and only load Apple Software required to start the computer. Thus, it will load more slowly - Normal. Once logged in let it run 5 - 7 minutes and then do a normal boot.
Hi, didn't work.
I booted it up in Safe Mode. Logged in and waited for 5minutes. After which I restarted the MacBook Pro and logged in regularly.
Still have this annoying "loading bar progress" during each boot up. (the loading bar is once you enter your password). Not during Apple Logo boot.
File Vault on mobile computer ON or OFF >> subjective. Using FileVault is an Extra line of defence against lost or stolen machines.
Thank you for marking as Solved mate
Very Best in the New Year
Using File Vault ?
It seems that YES it was turned on by default (like I said. I did complete clean instal of the new BIG SUR OS and set the settings to factory).
Should I turn it off?
Thank you for tips so far mate :)
Slow start up
