I sleep my MacBook Pro (running 10.4.11) all the time, numerous times
a day. Sometimes there will be a dozen programs open for weeks. I
think your issues with sleep have been solved.
So far so good.
Now should I also set it to have my hard drive spin down when it sleeps?
That setting used
Same OS, same result: sleep numerous times a day, hard drive spun down. Never
a problem.
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Tom Piwowar wrote:
This illustrates why I have avoided hibernation: it's never worked
reliably enough to be worth it. Stand-by works fine and if I need to
save battery life, I'll turn the system off.
Curiously, the Mac has the same problem. I wonder this is so tough to get
right.
I
I vaguely recall a problem with waking from sleep 5 or more years ago
but can't recall if it was on a Mac or a Windows machine.
We sleep our Macs several times a day and sometimes leave computers on
for weeks at a time and never have a problem with sleep.
Okay. On your advice I have enabled
On Nov 1, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
Okay. On your advice I have enabled sleep on my Mac. From an energy
conservation standpoint I would be happy if sleep now worked, but if I
lose any work you will probably get flamed.
Hi Tom!
I sleep my MacBook Pro (running 10.4.11) all the
I wonder if hibernation problems have to do with the on-board,
always-on, anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall software?
That stuff does cause problems. That is why I keep it off the computers I
set up. Despite this I still see hibernation problems. So I disable that
function.
This illustrates why I have avoided hibernation: it's never worked
reliably enough to be worth it. Stand-by works fine and if I need to
save battery life, I'll turn the system off.
Curiously, the Mac has the same problem. I wonder this is so tough to get
right.
