Putting a device into a low-power mode where only RAM is powered to conserve power at the expense of time to resume operation
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Can Mountain Lion take a sleeping Mac and write the RAM to disk after a timeout?
Is it possible to configure OSX Mountain Lion to go from suspand-toRAM to suspend-to-disk after certain amount of minutes?
The default sleep mode seems to be suspend-to-RAM until the battery is ...
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How to determine when a Mac is in Power Nap state?
I've got a mid-2011 Macbook Air running Mountain Lion. Power Nap is enabled. My Time Machine back up goes to a USB external hard drive. My current workflow is to sleep my computer when not in use, ...
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Something keeps waking up my Mac, how do I find out what it is?
I have a Mac Pro that draws about 250 watts (so I read somewhere) when it's running full-bore. It apparently draws less than 90 when it's sleeping. For whatever reasons I like to leave it on ...
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Is it safe to unplug a drive while MacBook is asleep? (i.e., does sleep unmount drives?)
Is it safe to unplug a drive while MacBook is asleep? (i.e., does sleep unmount drives?)
I think probably not, at least if a file operation was running when you put the computer to sleep, I guess it ...
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How do I change Mac OS X's sleep behavior with respect to USB plugging/unplugging?
If a USB device is plugged or unplugged, my MacBook Pro wakes up from sleep. Can this behavior be changed somehow? That is to say, I do not want my Mac to wake up when a USB device is unplugged.
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Sleeping screen (Cinema Display) keeps waking up. How can I make it sleep until mouse is moved?
I have my Mac Pro (Cyrus) configured not to fall asleep completely but to let the screen sleep when not used for half an hour. I also use the keyboard shortcut for forcing the display to sleep.
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Enable standby mode / deep sleep on SSD macs with mounted SD-card
This question arose from the comments page of The Nifty Minidrive's Kickstarter page
The Nifty Minidrive is essentially a microSD card adapter that fits perfectly into the SD-slot of the MacBook Pro ...
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Disable sleep mode for a specific app?
Can I disable the sleep mode for a specific application so that my mac won't go on sleep until the app is closed?
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Why does my MacBook Pro's keyboard freeze when it wakes up so I have to hard reboot?
Sometimes, but not every time, when I open my MacBook Pro to wake it from sleep, the keyboard doesn't respond, so I have to reboot my Mac using the power button.
There's a good chance that it happens ...
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Can an AppleTV wake a Snow Leopard Mac for playing back iTunes content?
Is it possible to have an Apple TV wake a WiFi connected iMac running Snow Leopard for playback of iTunes content?
I vaguely remember a new revision of the AirPort routers supporting this through ...
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When waking up my MacBook Pro, the external monitor unpredictably displays “snow flakes”
I can't seem to pinpoint a specific cause for this, but sometimes when I wake my MBP the external screen gets fuzzy, like a TV with no reception, but I can faintly see my desktop behind the noise. If ...
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iCal DAV The Server Responded with an Error (HTTP 302) after sleeping
Often when my Macbook Pro Retina has been asleep, I get the following upon waking up:
It is irritating because I get the bouncy iCal icon in my doc and have to dismiss the error message every time. ...
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Fix Better Touch Tool so that it doesn't prevent sleep?
I noticed that the application Better Touch Tool is preventing my Mac from going to sleep. The screen will shut off, but the computer won't go to sleep. Is there a way to disable any of the settings ...
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how to find out the start time of last sleep
Is there a command to find the date and time at which a Macintosh computer last entered the sleep mode?
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How can I prevent my Macbook Pro 2011 from going to sleep when I close the lid?
This is not a duplicate of this question as it does not work: Is there any way to set a MacBook Pro to not sleep when you close the lid?
I have a Macbook Pro 2011. I want to be able to close the lid ...
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Is it bad or unhealthy to put my Mac to sleep?
I am wondering if it is bad or unhealthy to always put my Mac to sleep or should I shut it down instead? What I mean by putting it to sleep is that the display and hard drive are sleeping.
The reason ...
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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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OSX Lion freeze after sleep
Sometimes, after I wake up my MBP from sleep I get the screen shown in picture. Once I click somewhere in the middle of the screen I get the log in window. When I log in all the windows/apps that were ...
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External monitor resolution setting is lost after MacBook “wakes up” from sleep
I have recently purchased an external monitor that I am connecting to my MacBook Pro (Late 2009) using the MiniDisplay-to-VGA adapter. I have both the external monitor and the MacBook's monitor set to ...
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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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MacBook Pro randomly restarting
I'm new to daily Mac use, but I think I have my settings correct. My laptop is kept plugged in at work - never runs on battery. In my Energy Saver system prefs, I have Computer Sleep and Display Sleep ...
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iPhone sometimes goes to sleep running Pandora, sometimes doesn't
I use my iPhone4 to listen to Pandora radio at work. I have it plugged in to a standard charge/sync cable, and a headphone jack to my speakers.
Sometimes the screen stays on indefinitely, showing me ...
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Can I change the action that occurs when I close my laptop's lid?
Is there any way to change what happens when I close the lid of my laptop?
Do macs have the option of hibernating vs. sleeping like PC's do?
If so, which of these is the default behavior when I ...
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prevent second hard-drive from spinning up after standby
I have a MacBook Pro with two harddrives, an SSD in the main slot and a larger, normal drive in place of the superdrive.
Because of power consumption and noise I managed to get my Mac to not ...
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How can I prevent external hard disk from sleeping when connected to Airport Extreme?
I have a 1TB external hard disk from Seagate connected to the USB port of my Airport Extreme and everytime I need to access it I have to wait some time until it leaves the sleep mode.
Is there a way ...
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Lion - Macbook randomly wakes up from sleep when lid is closed
I have aluminium macbook (not pro). I have recently updated to Lion. So far so good - had some minor issues with printer, sshfs, mac fuse. Managed to resolve almost all of them.
There is one issue ...
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Why does battery die during sleep mode?
I'm running MacOSX 10.5.8 on a MacBook Pro.
I was working on my computer last night. I finished work, closed the lid and expected the computer to go to sleep. I assume this is the Apple Safe Sleep ...
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Switch from sleep to hibernate after set time
Is there a way to set a MacBook Pro (10.8.2) to go into normal sleep when I close the case but then switch to hibernation after, say, 15 minutes? It's clearly capable of going from sleep to hibernate ...
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Does applescript's 'delay' function work when the computer is asleep?
I'm trying to make an alarm clock for myself with AppleScript after my old (physical) one crapped out. I've got a script that'll schedule a pmset wakeup at the requisite time. There's just the matter ...
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Mac not going to sleep after iTunes stops playing
Hardware/Software
MacBook Pro 17" 2009
Lion 10.7.3
iTunes 10.6
Issue
Unlike a lot of posts on the internet, my Mac actually goes to sleep just fine, usually.
However, if iTunes was playing ...
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Why can't I run my MacBook Pro in clamshell mode?
I'm following these instructions to use my mid-2009 MacBook Pro in clamshell mode with a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad. The keyboard and trackpad are paired with the computer and I've got the ...
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How do you change the behavior of the power button in Lion?
On my Macbook Pro, whenever you press the power button it goes into sleep mode. How do I change this to do nothing?
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RAM Disk gets unmounted when coming out of sleep
I have a script set up to create a RAM Disk at login. But I have now noticed that the RAM Disk (And sometimes other networked disks) get unmounted when I put the laptop to sleep and wake it up again.
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Why is my Macbook Pro 2011 video garbled after sleep?
Occasionally when I open my new (April 2011) Macbook Pro I'm greeted by an unusable system with a garbled display. Most often I have to force a reboot (hold down power button for 10+ seconds), but ...
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How to prevent sleep while a Time Machine backup is in progress?
I'm one of those greatly suffering from the problem with TM in which the entire backup sparsebundle on a NAS gets corrupted if the Mac goes to sleep in middle of a backup operation. There's a long ...
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Issues with installing SSD instead of DVD drive?
It is common to replace a MacBook Pro's hard disk drive (HDD) with an solid state drive (SSD), however, that may pose a threat to the HDD if installed in the optical bay instead of the SuperDrive.*
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Can I wake up my Mac wirelessly over the internet?
I am a university student who leaves his Macbook Pro at home and uses an iPad in lectures.
I thought it'd be great if I was able to wake my Mac back at home if I needed to remote control it using ...
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Mountain Lion won't wake up after an extended sleep
I've recently upgraded my MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. Now whenever the machine sleeps for a long time (more than two hours or so) while disconnected from the mains, it won't wake up. I had to hold ...
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Mountain Lion sleep and caffeinate command
I am having an issue where my retina MacBook Pro (10.8.1) will sleep when uTorrent is actively uploading or downloading. I have tried my old go to programs like "Caffeine" and "InsomniaX" to no avail. ...
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Connecting USB devices wake Mac running Mountain Lion only temporarily
On Snow Leopard (10.6), I could wake my Mac by connecting a USB device - in my case, switching on a USB external HDD.
Now, after upgrading to Mountain Lion (10.8), when I connect the USB device, the ...
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Problem with applications not resuming where left off after low-battery sleep/hibernate on Lion
I am having problems with applications re-launching from scratch, rather than continuing where they left off, when resuming my Mac (alumimum MacBook, fall 2008) after its battery runs low. This ...
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MacBook Pro will not wake from sleep after installing third party application
I installed an application called Air Parrot that uses air play with an Apple tv to mirror or extend the desktop. I noticed that after I installed it, I am no longer able to wake my Mac from sleep. ...
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All open applications placed on main display after sleep
I've got an iMac 27" i7, with a secondary monitor hooked up via its display port (adapted from a DVI cable coming out of the secondary display).
After my iMac goes to sleep, when I wake it back up, ...
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Why does my MacBook's monitor go to maximum brightness when waking up from sleep?
I have my MacBook connected to an external monitor (via HDMI), and the brightness of MacBook monitor is set to 50% of max brightness . I usually put my display to sleep when I leave my computer for a ...
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Slow wakeup from sleep with 10.7.2
I'm seeing some seriously slow wakeup times for my Mid-2011 MacBook Air. Wakeup times on the order of 30 seconds or more. Note that the computer is incredibly sluggish or beach balling during this ...
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External HDD Unmounted After Sleep
I have the new iMac 21,5" and a Samsung G3 Station 1,5TB external HDD. When I plug my HDD, connecting to energy and via USB, no problems, Mac OS recognizes it and I can use it normally. The problem ...
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How do I find out what application is trying to wake my MBP?
my mac book pro is refusing to stay asleep. I noticed it will wake up roughly every thirty minutes and display the screensaver password screen and even when the lid is closed I will be able to hear it ...
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iphone sleeps in recovery mode
i am trying to restore 4.3.1 custom firmware made by sn0wbrzee with expert mode.
at the last moment of restore itunes shows 1015 error. so i try to reboot, but iphone not rebooted.
at last I ...
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Mountain Lion always switches to previous application at wake up
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard), I have noticed that always when I wake up my MacBook Pro, a window from the previously active application is moved to the front.
What causes ...
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Sleep / hibernation logic on OS X
I'm wondering what is a logic of sleep/hibernate of the OS X System.
On the lid closing MacBook should go to sleep - it is obvious but.. What if the machine is running only on batteries and it is in ...
