Comments on: MacBook Pro won’t wake up from sleep http://www.leftcolumn.net/2009/05/24/macbook-pro-wont-wake-up-from-sleep/ Covering Mac OS X, Mac Software, and other stuff Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:46:43 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joe http://www.leftcolumn.net/2009/05/24/macbook-pro-wont-wake-up-from-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Joe Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:26:27 +0000 http://www.leftcolumn.net/?p=205#comment-261 Jack: thanks for the comment. I think I've changed my mind about SafeSleep thanks to you guys. Will switch it on so I can calibrate the battery with confidence... Hey SCPlugin looks cool... I will download it and give it a go. I currently use the Terminal to manage all my Subversion stuff but it's not very Mac-like! I have used Tortoise on Windows a few years back and it seems like integration with Explorer/Finder is the way to go... Cheers! Jack: thanks for the comment. I think I’ve changed my mind about SafeSleep thanks to you guys. Will switch it on so I can calibrate the battery with confidence…

Hey SCPlugin looks cool… I will download it and give it a go. I currently use the Terminal to manage all my Subversion stuff but it’s not very Mac-like! I have used Tortoise on Windows a few years back and it seems like integration with Explorer/Finder is the way to go… Cheers!

]]> By: jrep http://www.leftcolumn.net/2009/05/24/macbook-pro-wont-wake-up-from-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-260 jrep Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:45:08 +0000 http://www.leftcolumn.net/?p=205#comment-260 A linkage between "non-removable batteries" and "disabling SafeSleep considered harmful": if you "calibrate" your battery occasionally, by letting it run down, then you're deliberately doing exactly the thing that requires SafeSleep, or causes you to lose all your live work. If you *don't* calibrate the battery, I'm not sure I underdstand the consequences. It's always described in reply to a question like "my battery doesn't last very long any more." But descriptions of the process, especially at Apple, seem a bit obscure; it may be doing nothing more than retraining the stored notion of what constitutes "full" and "empty," to track the degraded battery! A linkage between “non-removable batteries” and “disabling SafeSleep considered harmful”: if you “calibrate” your battery occasionally, by letting it run down, then you’re deliberately doing exactly the thing that requires SafeSleep, or causes you to lose all your live work.

If you *don’t* calibrate the battery, I’m not sure I underdstand the consequences. It’s always described in reply to a question like “my battery doesn’t last very long any more.” But descriptions of the process, especially at Apple, seem a bit obscure; it may be doing nothing more than retraining the stored notion of what constitutes “full” and “empty,” to track the degraded battery!

]]> By: Joe http://www.leftcolumn.net/2009/05/24/macbook-pro-wont-wake-up-from-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Joe Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:50:00 +0000 http://www.leftcolumn.net/?p=205#comment-246 Thanks Brandon, I didn't really consider that! I was more worried about the time it takes to go to sleep. Safe Sleep starts to make sense if the Mac might be sleeping for a while. Personally my Mac is not ever asleep for long, but I can see Safe Sleep has its place. It'd be nice to see some System Preferences control for all this stuff... Cheers! Thanks Brandon, I didn’t really consider that! I was more worried about the time it takes to go to sleep. Safe Sleep starts to make sense if the Mac might be sleeping for a while. Personally my Mac is not ever asleep for long, but I can see Safe Sleep has its place. It’d be nice to see some System Preferences control for all this stuff… Cheers!

]]> By: Brandon Zylstra http://www.leftcolumn.net/2009/05/24/macbook-pro-wont-wake-up-from-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Brandon Zylstra Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:16:09 +0000 http://www.leftcolumn.net/?p=205#comment-245 If you put your laptop to sleep (regular sleep) it will continue to drain your battery. If you leave it like this for a while, and safe sleep is disabled, you'll lose everything, and not be able to use it agin until you are at an outlet. Personally I almost never use UNsafe sleep! By default your laptop only uses safe sleep if it is low on juice, but you can set it to always use safe sleep when it is unplugged. (Or always, but that doesn't seem sensible.) (I believe if it is in unsafe sleep and gets low on power it will hibernate, but I've not tested this recently.) If you put your laptop to sleep (regular sleep) it will continue to drain your battery. If you leave it like this for a while, and safe sleep is disabled, you’ll lose everything, and not be able to use it agin until you are at an outlet. Personally I almost never use UNsafe sleep!

By default your laptop only uses safe sleep if it is low on juice, but you can set it to always use safe sleep when it is unplugged. (Or always, but that doesn’t seem sensible.) (I believe if it is in unsafe sleep and gets low on power it will hibernate, but I’ve not tested this recently.)

]]> By: 40 Useful Mac OS X Shell Scripts and Terminal Commands http://www.leftcolumn.net/2009/05/24/macbook-pro-wont-wake-up-from-sleep/comment-page-1/#comment-161 40 Useful Mac OS X Shell Scripts and Terminal Commands Sun, 24 May 2009 00:37:25 +0000 http://www.leftcolumn.net/?p=205#comment-161 [...] …Also see my post about hibernate mode and Safe Sleep on the Mac [...] [...] …Also see my post about hibernate mode and Safe Sleep on the Mac [...]

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