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How to select which disks are allowed to sleep?
There is an option "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" in Mac OS X's preferences:
Is it possible to configure which disks Mac OS X can put into a sleepy state? For example, I want to ...
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Mac wakes on scheduled power event that recreates itself every day
At 2:14 every morning, my Mac wakes. Looking at the logs, I see it's a scheduled event, but nothing shows up in System Preferences > Power. When I go to terminal, and run pmset -g sched, I see
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While my MacBook sleeps, the network drops off?
I have just moved over to a Macbook Pro from my old Macbook. Thanks to the Migration Assistant, it was an easy task, but I am now having an annoying issue: I have both computers on with all the same ...
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iMac sleeping even when set to never sleep
Running 10.7.5, I've got a fairly new iMac (6 months old) 27", set to never sleep, yet when I got in to work this morning it was asleep. How to fix this?
Output from pmset -g in Terminal:
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Mountain Lion aggressively hibernates
Recently, my MacBook Pro (mid 2012, 15 inch, 10.8.2) has started going into what seems to be hibernate mode after several hours asleep, whether it's plugged in or on battery. When I unplug it, it ...
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Disable Stand By Mode on Retina MacBook Pro?
I learned that the retina MacBook Pro has a Deep Sleep Mode that is initiated when left idle for a long time. This, however, causes my laptop to take about 3-5 seconds to wake up after it sleeps, such ...
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How to not let the system sleep when putting display to sleep with Ctrl+Shift+Eject in Mountain Lion?
In Lion I always used Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Eject ⏏ to put my display to sleep when I walked away from my computer. The system would continue running and not go to sleep.
Now in Mountain Lion when I put ...
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Mountain Lion sleeps too aggressively
For me, Mountain Lion always seems to sleep whenever there is no user action, even when the computer is still doing something. In my case it always sleeps in the middle of running a batch operation in ...
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Energy saver: do the battery settings apply during charging?
I have my Macbook pro 17 (early 2011, OSX 10.6.8) set to turn off the display at 30 minutes on AC, and 10 minutes on battery.
I've noticed recently that if the battery is charging (the little battery ...
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How can I tell whether a drive is asleep?
Is there an application or command-line utility for Mac OS X to query a hard-disk to see if it is 'asleep' or 'awake' right now? (i.e. as controlled by Energy Saver / pmset disk sleeping preferences). ...
