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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Energy Saver - Computer Sleep
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1597966" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Well, that's interesting. Your iMac will sleep when booted from an external hard drive but not from the internal drive. Not sleeping in Safe Mode eliminates third party activity so it has to either be something going on in the background or the hard drive. How full is your hard drive; in other words, how much free space remains? A full or nearly full hard drive will generally not sleep because of the swapping going on.</p><p></p><p>Something else you can try.... create a test account and give it admin rights. Log on to the test account and see if you can put the machine to sleep. Let us know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1597966, member: 46727"] Well, that's interesting. Your iMac will sleep when booted from an external hard drive but not from the internal drive. Not sleeping in Safe Mode eliminates third party activity so it has to either be something going on in the background or the hard drive. How full is your hard drive; in other words, how much free space remains? A full or nearly full hard drive will generally not sleep because of the swapping going on. Something else you can try.... create a test account and give it admin rights. Log on to the test account and see if you can put the machine to sleep. Let us know. [/QUOTE]
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