[X4U] Weird hard drive Copy Issue

[Mark Des Cotes]

If you're using so many fonts that it's causing a delay at login you 
should consider font management software.

Mark Des Cotes
Systems Manager/Graphic Designer

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On Feb 4, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

>
> The issue is with fonts at login. The more fonts you have the longer 
> the
> login. Part of my job is graphic/web design so I've got a LOT of 
> fonts. You
> have to. A lot of Mac users are designers so I imagine there are a LOT 
> of
> ticked off users. The excessive login times are intolerable often 5 
> minutes.
> Apple needs to fix this problem. If I have to reinstall the system for 
> some
> reason I will stop at 10.3.5 What I do now is set the auto start/ 
> shutdown
> times in the energy saver panel and have the machine boot up 
> automatically
> half an hour before I start work. I work at a university and we have 
> several
> Macs for student use, they also must have a large number of fonts, and 
> the
> students think the long login times are a joke right away they get the
> impression Macs are inferior and slow.
>
>>
>>>
>>> 10.3.7 was supposed to take care of some FW issues but the problem 
>>> is the
>>> excessive login time which I hate compared to 10.3.5 but if login 
>>> waits are
>>> not an issue...
>>
>> Haven't seen those, nor were any routinely reported while beta-testing
>> 10.3.7. My G4, 450 MP, 1.5 GB RAM starts up in less than a minute. 
>> However,
>> it's a single-uesr machine with auto-login selected.
>
>
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