Re: Sleep during upload

2013-07-08 Thread Severin Crisp
Many thanks for that Ronni, now I see it all! Severin On 08/07/2013, at 1:17 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Severin, > In past versions of OS X, the system would not enter sleep if applications > were running and writing files to disk or running lengthy computational > tasks, but this has chan

Re: Sleep during upload

2013-07-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Severin, In past versions of OS X, the system would not enter sleep if applications were running and writing files to disk or running lengthy computational tasks, but this has changed in the latest releases of OS X, (Lion & Mountain Lion) where " programs must invoke a power assertion "in or

Re: Sleep during upload

2013-07-07 Thread Severin Crisp
Thanks for both those two suggestions, Ronni. I had already figured that out as a workaround. But why? Surely with a long upload, apart from anything else there are disk reads, so why does it still sleep. Cheers Severin On 07/07/2013, at 5:59 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Also DON'T have "put

Re: Sleep during upload

2013-07-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Also DON'T have "put hard disks to sleep when possible" selected. Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 07/07/2013, at 5:57 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Severin, > > Change your setting in System Preferences > Energy Saver - Computer Sleep - > to 'Never'. > Change it back to what setting you wish after u

Re: Sleep during upload

2013-07-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Severin, Change your setting in System Preferences > Energy Saver - Computer Sleep - to 'Never'. Change it back to what setting you wish after uploading. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 07/07/2013, at 5:36 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > Annoyingly my iMac (OSX 10.8.4) goes to sleep d

Sleep during upload

2013-07-07 Thread Severin Crisp
Annoyingly my iMac (OSX 10.8.4) goes to sleep during a long unattended upload and pauses the upload. I can not understand this. Severin Crisp Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 633