Re: How to keep the thing from going to sleep

[GMail Valter Psicof]

> Hi there: I was using Audacity to digitize a couple of LPs over the
> weekend, and discovered the hard way that when the Mini goes to sleep
> Audacity stops capturing the signal.

That sounds odd.
I have an Early 2009 iMac with OSX 10.6, and in my experience the Mac never
sleeps when it's "doing" something (i.e., some app is actually working).
OTOH, it goes to sleep (in its own time) when all the apps are idle.

> I went into system prefs and told the display not to sleep
That should be irrelevant. When the display goes black, the Mac works as
before; only the screen is off.

I second Bruce suggestion to reset the power manager, and SMC:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

IMHO, if everything works correctly, you should not need to set your Mac to
never sleep: the app receiving and processing data (as long as it is
continuous) should be enough to keep the Mac from going to sleep.


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Re: How to keep the thing from going to sleep

[Bruce Johnson]

If setting ‘Computer Sleep’ to ‘Never’ in the Energy Saver prefs doesn’t work 
you probably need to reset the power manager 
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295 and reset the PRAM/NVRAM 
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063



On Nov 1, 2016, at 10:28 AM, Bill Spencer 
> wrote:

Hi there: I was using Audacity to digitize a couple of LPs over the weekend, 
and discovered the hard way that when the Mini goes to sleep Audacity stops 
capturing the signal. I went into system prefs and told the display not to 
sleep, and told the energy saver to stay awake, but neither change worked...I 
still had to jiggle the mouse from time to time to be sure it all went 
correctly. What was I missing? I (obviously) don't really want to have to 
babysit the system like that in the future when doing this. As always, my 
thanks in advance!

***

Bill Spencer in Maryland
Mac Mini 2.6 GHz i5/10.11.6

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How to keep the thing from going to sleep

[Bill Spencer]

Hi there: I was using Audacity to digitize a couple of LPs over the 
weekend, and discovered the hard way that when the Mini goes to sleep 
Audacity stops capturing the signal. I went into system prefs and told the 
display not to sleep, and told the energy saver to stay awake, but neither 
change worked...I still had to jiggle the mouse from time to time to be 
sure it all went correctly. What was I missing? I (obviously) don't really 
want to have to babysit the system like that in the future when doing this. 
As always, my thanks in advance!

***

Bill Spencer in Maryland
Mac Mini 2.6 GHz i5/10.11.6

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