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Battery and shutdown issues
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1526891" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Whatever the problem is in keeping your Mac from shutting down properly and timely may also be the reason your battery is draining, if indeed it is draining too fast. My first suggestion is to create a new user on your Mac and work in that account. If you stop having problems, then you have an answer... "something" has gone awry with your user account.</p><p></p><p>If you still have problems even with a new user account, I would just flat out do a clean reinstall of the OS and manually migrate your user data back over. Do a full clone of your system to an external drive so you have a nice secure, bootable backup to recover from.</p><p></p><p>Another thing to try is running the <a href="http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/aht.html" target="_blank">Apple Hardware Test</a> to see if it finds any issues. Also check your hard drive to see if it is failing. An easy way is to use an advanced SMART monitoring tool. I recommend <a href="http://binaryfruit.com/drivedx" target="_blank">DriveDx</a>. It provides a wealth of data for early warning of potential drive issues. Run the "long" self test. That may take a couple hours, but will be fairly comprehensive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1526891, member: 38864"] Whatever the problem is in keeping your Mac from shutting down properly and timely may also be the reason your battery is draining, if indeed it is draining too fast. My first suggestion is to create a new user on your Mac and work in that account. If you stop having problems, then you have an answer... "something" has gone awry with your user account. If you still have problems even with a new user account, I would just flat out do a clean reinstall of the OS and manually migrate your user data back over. Do a full clone of your system to an external drive so you have a nice secure, bootable backup to recover from. Another thing to try is running the [URL="http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/aht.html"]Apple Hardware Test[/URL] to see if it finds any issues. Also check your hard drive to see if it is failing. An easy way is to use an advanced SMART monitoring tool. I recommend [URL="http://binaryfruit.com/drivedx"]DriveDx[/URL]. It provides a wealth of data for early warning of potential drive issues. Run the "long" self test. That may take a couple hours, but will be fairly comprehensive. [/QUOTE]
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