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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: No sleep in Mavericks
Date: 1 Jan 2014 17:44:48 GMT
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On 2014-01-01, Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam@talktalk.net> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-12-31, Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam@talktalk.net> wrote:
>> > Since I upgraded (?) my iMac from Mountain Lion to Mavericks, it will no
>> > longer go to sleep on its own (though I can force sleepmanually).
>> >
>> > I have been able to check that the reason is that mds_stores.maintenance
>> > is running a background task, and I gather that this is something to do
>> > with Spotlight.
>> >
>> > But I haven't been able to figure out more than this (even after
>> > googling). Does anyone know a way of working out precisely what is going
>> > on? I have tried excluding various items from Spotlight, and also
>> > excluding some items from my CrashPlan offsite backup. After a longish
>> > period of time, that process stopped running and normal sleep came back,
>> > but after a restart the process is again running and preventing sleep.
>> 
>> Enter this command in a terminal window and paste the output in a reply
>> here, please:
>> 
>> pmset -g assertions
>
> Essentially that just says what I have already posted, nothing more
> specific.

(snip)

Thanks, yep. I wonder if adding and then removing the drive in question
to the System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy list would help.

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