Hi Adam, Have you got Time Machine backing up hourly?
Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 6 Jun 2020, at 9:39 pm, Adam Lippiatt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all > > I am having trouble getting my 27 inch late 2013 iMac (running 10.15.5, but > was happening 10.15.4) to go to sleep. > > I have tried the usual things like ejecting external drives, unplugging them > and plugging them back in. > > Zapping the PRAM. > > I had this problem a year or two ago and the ejecting and reconnecting the > drives did the trick but not this time. > > Apple says something else to try is to “update the firmware” on the external > drive. I am not sure I have ever had any luck finding firmware for drives. > > I have looked at the processes preventing sleep and there are a number of > them. This list goes up and down but never seems to get to zero. > > useractivityd > sharingd > apfsd > hidd > cupsd > backupd-helper > backupd 4 > mds_stores > > Does anyone have any thoughts? > > Thanks > > Adam > > > > > > _____________________ > Adam Lippiatt > [email protected] > 0402 301 706 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
