On Feb 5, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Bea Hopkinson wrote:
Incidentally I have been shutting down properly - I always do, but sometimes I don't wait for the screen to go black before I shut the lid of the laptop - does that matter?
I might matter. When you close the lid with the laptop running, it puts it to sleep. So if you were in the process of a shutdown when you closed the lid, it could cause the Mac to go to sleep instead of completing the shut down. This could confuse things and cause problems. It shouldn't, but it could.
In the future, I'd wait until it has finished shutting down and has powered itself off before closing the lid. Alternately, you can stop shutting it down entirely and just close the lid allowing it to go to sleep instead. Assuming your battery is decent and you don't spend massive amounts of time with the laptop "off" and unplugged, then sleep should be all you need to do. There should be no need to do a shut down, although a periodic reboot never hurts (although if you stay up to date with Apple's updates, generally they will require the Mac to be rebooted often enough to never have to really worry about a reboot either unless you have trying to solve a specific problem).
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