refers to shutting down the computer, the process of powering down the computer
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How can I shut down using keyboard shortcut and not reopen windows on login?
I upgraded from OS X 10.6 to OS X 10.8 a few days ago. I find that when I use the keyboard shortcut (ctrl-opt-cmd eject) to shutdown, on startup all the perviously open applications are re-opened ...
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Xserve shuts itself off and boots at will
Okay, there's a lot of smart Mac guys here, so lets see if any of you can figure out this stumper.
Our Xserve G4 (RackMac1,1) went incommunicado a few years ago was left in this state until I pulled ...
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What is Shutdown Cause -108?
My rMBP 15" just shut down by itself when idling, screen turned off.
When I rebooted it, I checked the Console to see why it shut down, and found this message: 10/27/12 1:21:36.000 AM kernel[0]: ...
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Why does my Mac Pro running Snow leopard freeze on blue screen on shutdown?
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Mac Pro freezes on blue screen on shutdown. Restart seems to work quite happily, it's just shutting down that my Mac Pro doesn't want to do.
The chime has decided to become super quiet of ...
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Back up and shut down
At the end of the day, I would like my MacBook Pro to back-up to both Time Machine and Backblaze (or verify that it has done so) and then shut down. Could someone write please write a script that ...
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How to instruct OS X to wait for an application to close before interrupting a shutdown?
I'm using several virtual machines that take time to be paused when I want to reboot the system. It prevents OS X Lion from shutting down properly, because the VMware process is still running seconds ...
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Ipad Log Files - Ipad2 suddenly shut down when watching film on OPlayerHD
i have ipad2 32 GB with version of 5.1. when i was watching film with OPlayerHD Lite, suddenly machine has shut down itself and 2 minute later opened itself again. this was happened three times in the ...
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Lion shutdown menu, locks computer
I'm having a weird problem.. When I go to the 'Apple' Menu in finder, and select the 'Shut Down...' button, it locks the computer. Not shutting it down.
I'm running Lion 10.7.3 on a late 2011 macbook ...
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iTunes interrupts shutdown
I'm on Lion.
Everytime I try to shut down my laptop, I get a popup that tells me that iTunes has interrupted the shut down.
When I try to shut down again (without quitting iTunes, or changing ...
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OSX 10.7.2 can't shut down
When i click on shutdown nothing happens. I've tried repairing and verifying the hard-disks. Rebooting in safe mode, resetting PRAM, SMC. Nothing seems to work.
The only 2 ways i can shutdown now is ...
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shutdown command - what can be wrong?
I have a late 2012 iMac. I use to shut it down with the shutdown command, in order to be able to delay the shutting down.
Here's how I use it:
sudo shutdown -h +30 # shuts down in 30 mins
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MBP: MacOS 10.6 hangs up after login
I've got a MacBook pro with snow leopard installed. All worked fine, just now I had to install OpenAfs, which requires a reboot. When I tried to reboot, the pc stopped shutting down: All I could see ...
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System Tray sometimes empty in Windows 7 in Boot Camp?
For some reason, sometimes when I boot into Windows 7 in Boot Camp, the System Tray will be empty. So when I try to restart via the Start Menu, nothing happens. I have to manually shut down power, ...
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My OS closes down after 5 seconds of inactivity (with the alert pop-up)
Since yesterday, when i'm running my computer, it shutDowns after 5 seconds of running. In order to make it work, i need to press continuously the escape key so the popUp alert who close the computer ...
