Macintosh computers with solid state disk drives will sometimes perform activities while asleep. This is called Power Nap. Look for it in System Preferences Energy Saver. The summary below the check box reads: While sleeping, your Mac can back up using Time Machine and periodically check for new email, calendar, and other iCloud updates
More details are at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204032 Best Wishes, Jonathan Cohn On 10 October 2017 at 10:11, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There are a few things that remain active during sleep, but downloading > usually is not one of them. If you are concerned about security and wish > to limit access, just put the display to sleep but leave the computer > awake. This is accomplished in the Energy Saver pane of System Prefs. For > best security, you should have your Mac set to require your password after > sleep or screen saver, which is in the General pane of System Prefs. With > both of these items set as suggested, your computer will be loced once the > display goes to sleep but all background activities will continue naturally. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Oct 10, 2017, at 01:53, Ramy Moustafa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all: > > I set my studio mac mini computer to sleep after 5 mintes, but > yesterday, I need to leave it downloading a bing thing, so, when I > came today, I don't know if he was downloading or not, I saw some > progress, but not the progress that I was looking for in about 12 > hours, > so, in this issue, what can I do? > must I disable sleeping or what? > > > -- > Ramy MoustafaSaber > Music instructor @: > Faculty ofmusical education > Music arranger and Sound engineer @: > Harmony Recording Studio > https://www.facebook.com/HarmonyRecordingStudio.eg > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark > at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark > at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
