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From: billy@MIX.COM
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Subject: Re: Mavericks Sleep
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:24:21 +0000 (UTC)
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John Varela <newlamps@verizon.net> writes:

> OS X 10.9.2 running in an iMac. With this new installation (I 
> upgraded to Mavericks from 10.8.5 just last weekend.), sleep is 
> behaving very strangely.
> 
> When the system is put to sleep and wakened soon after, Mavericks 
> behaves like earlier versions. But if it's left asleep for a while 
> (I haven't done enough testing to know how long a "while" is but I 
> think it's of the order of an hour) it executes a restart. The menu 
> bar items have to be reinitiated, all the apps that I know were left
> open are closed, I have to re-sign in to 1Password, etc.

Not a restart, but it's relaoding a memory image, and then doing
what needs to be done to resume running it.

Feed this into your favorite search engine -

  OS X Safe Sleep, Hibernation and Standby

> I have gone over all the System Preferences and cannot find anything
> that looks like it could be causing this.

You can set the time it stays in sleep (before going into standby)
up to 24 hours, or disable the standby mode.  Launch the Terminal
emulator and "man pmset" for details.  Or buy a copy of -

http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerToolSys2.html

and just use it to set Safe Sleep as you'd like.

> Am I missing something or should I submit a bug report?

Heh.  The bug here is crappy user-level documentation.  As in none.

Billy Y..
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