On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:10 AM, No No <grizzledgia...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Diane:

One, I assume you have set the energy control panel to never sleep, closed Preferences, open Preferences, reset sleep setting. This can over write bad preference settings. You can also find the energy control panel settings cache (with other personal account cached settings in "your account name/Library/Caches/ com.apple.preferencepanes.cache") and delete them. Preferences need to be reentered.
Etc.

Hi Bob,

I had not done any of what you suggested, as it's always been like this. But it was pretty good for over a month, except if I left it with the dashboard up and running - maybe my radar widget prevents it from sleeping.

After I got your reply, I did try setting it to never, exiting, and resetting it. Repaired permissions. Eventually it would sleep again.

I lost power for a few minutes one day last week and it has not gone to sleep since <sigh>

So now I will step through the rest of your suggestions.

Again, this machine has always behaved like this since I got it 10 years ago. As a matter of fact, if you had asked me I would have said I *don't* have sleep turned on as it just never went to sleep at all. When it did in December, I feared my PS was going again as that's what used to happen, I'd leave it on overnight and it would be off in the morning due to the failing PS. The only way to get it back on then was to unplug it and hit the power button. This time it really was sleeping, and I kind of liked it!

Hopefully it will kick itself back in again.

Thanks!

Your welcome. In the old days (15 years ago) we didn't bother with sleep because it didn't work very well or save much power. Sleep is really just a luxury. Off and on is usually the best way. Good luck with your power supply.

Bob

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