Extremely Slow Startup on Mac
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I have a brand new MacBook Pro with a quad core i7 and 8GB of RAM, which should be ample power for MatLab, however, when I open MatLab it literally takes minutes to open (I timed it and it took 3 minutes and 5 seconds to open). I am running R2013b. I have the toolbox path cache on and it is a brand new computer with a fresh install of MatLab so the directory shouldn't be too big. Any ideas on why it is taking so long? I can run very intense programs on here without any issue-it only seems to be MatLab.
Thanks!
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Rachid Lougrini
on 30 Apr 2015
Edited: Rachid Lougrini
on 30 Apr 2015
Yes it worked...if you can add a Matlab exception in your anti-virus, so the virus won't scan Matlab, that will help. It will not scan Matlab at the startup anymores so it opens fast. If you can't add an exception, you have to disable the anti-virus for the moment you want to open Matlab... Thanks Al
++++I have MacBook Pro, i7 8GB in RAM, early 2011++++
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Image Analyst
on 24 Nov 2013
Did you try a search http://www.mathworks.com/searchresults/?q=mathworks+support+team+AND+%28mac%29&q1=mathworks+support+team&q2=&q3=%28mac%29¬q=&c[]=answers_en
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Image Analyst
on 25 Nov 2013
Al: it looks like what they told you was one of the items in the support search that I referred you to:
It's basically the same reason though the Answer they gave was for Mcafee instead of for Avira. But the issue I suppose could happen for any virus scanner and any operating system. I think they should make the answer more general (not mentioning only Mcafee).
Priyanka Sharma
on 14 Jul 2023
Edited: Priyanka Sharma
on 14 Jul 2023
If anyone is still having this problem then I have writtne a dedicated article on Mac slow startup. It is not neccessarty that your Mac is booting slow because of MatLab. In this article you will find possible reasons and solutions to fix Mac slow boot.
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