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  Problem with system preferences paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink - 2014-07-29 11:21 -0500
    Re: Problem with system preferences Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2014-07-29 09:54 -0700
    Re: Problem with system preferences Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-07-30 08:42 +1200
    Re: Problem with system preferences dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2014-07-30 07:05 +0100
      Re: Problem with system preferences Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-07-30 12:31 -0400
    Re: Problem with system preferences Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-07-31 00:12 +0000

#62571 — Problem with system preferences

Running 10.8.5 on a two year old MacBook Pro.  It totally ignores my
energy saver settings in system preferences.  Other than moving to
Maverick, is there anything I can do, or look for to correct this.

TIA

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#62572

On 2014-07-29 16:21:00 +0000, paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink said:

> Running 10.8.5 on a two year old MacBook Pro.  It totally ignores my
> energy saver settings in system preferences.  Other than moving to
> Maverick, is there anything I can do, or look for to correct this.
> 
> TIA

Try deleting the associated preference file. That would be 
"com.apple.PowerManagement.plist", found in the main Library 
("/Library", in the "SystemConfiguration" folder. If you want to reset 
scheduled wake-ups, etc., there's another file named 
"com.apple.AutoWake.plist".

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#62591

In article <1lpjl3v.1a1uekd1iw93b3N%paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink>,
<paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink> wrote:

> Running 10.8.5 on a two year old MacBook Pro.  It totally ignores my
> energy saver settings in system preferences.  Other than moving to
> Maverick, is there anything I can do, or look for to correct this.
> 
> TIA

Energy Saver seems to be quite buggy in many versions of OS X. There
are various reports of issues with it. I'm almost sure it's what causes
my display to go to sleep for no reason under OS X 10.2 (despite all of
the Energy Saver options being turned off / set to "never").

You can try deleting the Energy Saver preferences, but it's unlikely to
help for long, if at all.

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#62628

<paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink> wrote:

> Running 10.8.5 on a two year old MacBook Pro.  It totally ignores my
> energy saver settings in system preferences.  Other than moving to
> Maverick, is there anything I can do, or look for to correct this.
> 
> TIA

So what does it do? Refuse to sleep when you want it to, sleep when you
don't want it, or what? And in what situation did it last work?

I've had situations where, for various reasons, my Mac would not sleep
when I wanted, and others when it would sleep when I didn't want. Both
solved by third party programs.

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#62641

In article <1lpl4lp.1qy15tby9zcu6N%dcohenspam@talktalk.net>,
 dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) wrote:

> <paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink> wrote:
> 
> > Running 10.8.5 on a two year old MacBook Pro.  It totally ignores my
> > energy saver settings in system preferences.  Other than moving to
> > Maverick, is there anything I can do, or look for to correct this.
> > 
> > TIA
> 
> So what does it do? Refuse to sleep when you want it to, sleep when you
> don't want it, or what? And in what situation did it last work?
> 
> I've had situations where, for various reasons, my Mac would not sleep
> when I wanted, and others when it would sleep when I didn't want. Both
> solved by third party programs.

Or they could be caused by third-party programs. I came back from a trip 
a few days ago, and I noticed that my MBPro wasn't going into display 
sleep when it was idle. I checked my preferences and they had the normal 
settings. Then I remembered that a few days ago I had started Jiggler 
while I was watching an online bridge Vugraph broadcast. This is an app 
that fakes jiggling the mouse every couple of minutes, to prevent sleep 
and screensaver. It has an option to auto-quit after a settable period 
of time, but I forgot to use it that night, so it was still running 
since then.

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#62651

On 2014-07-29, paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink <paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink> wrote:
> Running 10.8.5 on a two year old MacBook Pro.  It totally ignores my
> energy saver settings in system preferences.  Other than moving to
> Maverick, is there anything I can do, or look for to correct this.

Enter this command into a terminal window, then copy the resulting
output and paste it in a reply here:

pmset -g assertions

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