The simplest solution to this problem would be just make the machine
hibernate instead of sleep.
Here is the command:
sudo pmset -b hibernatemode 1
When on battery power and the sleep command is issued, the laptop will
write the memory to disk and then powerdown the machine. I tested it
on my 1st gen. Macbook Pro, and it worked as advertised.
man pmset in the Terminal will give you the nitty gritty details about
the command, but I found an article online that explains it nicely:
http://www.pengekcs.com/2007/09/08/mac-os-x-hibernate-sleep-mode/
Regards,
Todd
On Mar 18, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Todd Higgins <[email protected]>
wrote:
Does you friend have a newer Mac (Powerbook G4 SD and newer)? If
so, I
would tell him to just put it to sleep. By default the contents of
RAM is
written to a disk image. Details on Safe Sleep can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1757
Yeah, this is a way cool feature. Sleep your MacBook, pull the
battery out
(unlucky for the new MBP 17" owners) for a second or two and then
pop it
back in. Next time you power up your MB it's right back where you
left it.
Probably not a long term recommended solution, but I've appreciated
this
feature way too many times than I should have.
Towards a less brutal solution, on OS X, you might think about
looking into
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Unfortunately whilst this gives the name of the file in plain
English, the
path is given in some kind of code which fortunately can be decoded
using
AppleScript. Look here for some hints how to sort the list
chronologically:
http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=17554
My initial thoughts would be to work with the listed Documents, not
Applications. Have the user set the Recent Document to a reasonable
number.
By sorting chronologically you should be able to remove any files
that were
opened the day previously, unfortunately if it's set to 20 and he
opens 20
files and closes 10 of them on the same day, when he starts again
it's going
to open all 20 :-(
HTH
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