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<blockquote data-quote="NPuter" data-source="post: 678331" data-attributes="member: 34479"><p>What happened to your computer was normal...</p><p></p><p>Your battery died. It happens to mine too. OS X really should go into sleep mode at around 3%.</p><p></p><p>When your computer goes into sleep mode (when you close the lid) the contents of your ram is written to your hard drive. that is the "sleep image"</p><p>You'll notice that there is a noticeable time gab between when you close the lid of your computer and when the sleep led starts pulsing... that's the sleep image being written...</p><p></p><p>if your computer were to run out of battery when it was asleep, the next time you plug it in and turn it on, the sleep image will return and you should not have lost any work...</p><p></p><p>however, in your case, your computer was turned rather then sleeping when it ran out of battery, therefore there was no sleep image to return to...</p><p></p><p></p><p>now you may be asking, "Why does the computer not make more sleep images (say, every minute) just in case the computer were to turn off." </p><p></p><p>A sleep image takes a while to be written. In my case with 4gigs of ram it takes 30sec.</p><p>So, it would not be practical for OS X to take 30sec to write a sleep image every minute of so...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So there you go <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>Hope it makes sense <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NPuter, post: 678331, member: 34479"] What happened to your computer was normal... Your battery died. It happens to mine too. OS X really should go into sleep mode at around 3%. When your computer goes into sleep mode (when you close the lid) the contents of your ram is written to your hard drive. that is the "sleep image" You'll notice that there is a noticeable time gab between when you close the lid of your computer and when the sleep led starts pulsing... that's the sleep image being written... if your computer were to run out of battery when it was asleep, the next time you plug it in and turn it on, the sleep image will return and you should not have lost any work... however, in your case, your computer was turned rather then sleeping when it ran out of battery, therefore there was no sleep image to return to... now you may be asking, "Why does the computer not make more sleep images (say, every minute) just in case the computer were to turn off." A sleep image takes a while to be written. In my case with 4gigs of ram it takes 30sec. So, it would not be practical for OS X to take 30sec to write a sleep image every minute of so... So there you go :) Hope it makes sense ;) [/QUOTE]
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