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Caffeine shouldn't prevent it from sleeping anymore anymore unless you have an HDMI plugged in it.
Perhaps it was Amphetamine with the relevant setting to prevent sleep with built-in display closed.
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You're kidding right? I hate that behaviour of MacOS. If I told the OS to shut down/restart, I meant it. Kill everything and get on with it, I shouldn't have to babysit. If I told it to update, I didn't mean "oh pretty please but if it's too hard don't worry about it", I meant "I know this ii. update is going to take an hour for a point release for some reason, but I'm going for a walk now - go ahead so IT gets off m…
Can’t you just wait two minutes for it yo cycle through all open apps and click “don’t save”/“terminate” on all of them?
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What's insane here? Waking the machine up is a legitimate use case, and it's easily traceable and configurable.
A machine doing something I didn't tell it to is insane. I am the user. I use the machine, not the other way around.
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So just like Windows since... 7? Or something like that. I can guarantee you that a Mac will still shut down when its battery is empty. Unfortunately Apple hasn't yet cracked unlimited power.
Macs sleep on low battery, then hibernate RAM contents to disk when really really empty. You never lose data.
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are there devices which are allowed to wake your computer? powercfg -devicequery wake_armed if anything shows up, disable those devices with this command: powercfg -devicedisablewake "Device Name" I quickly googled this but I don't expect a lot of people to know what to search for, so if you've already found this and tried it, then I really am out of ideas this time. if you haven't tried this, try it, and I really ho…
I got rid of that PC a year ago :P But trust me, I tried literally every trick in the book, including the one above. No devices had the capability to wake up the PC(yes, including the mouse and the keyboard), disabled all wake timers, disabled all networking(in fact unplugged the ethernet cable).....it would still wake up in the middle of the night. It was the most confusing thing I ever dealt with in computers.
in your case I would scrutinize the task scheduler for tasks that are allowed to wake the PC.
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Haha I should have mentioned that one as a repeat offender. After the Surface wakes up, reboots, makes noise, gets hot, and drains 20% of its battery, if I then run "powercfg.exe /lastwake" it'll pretend that it did not wake up X_X And in my case, there wasn't any non-Microsoft drivers on the system. The issue appears to be that they do magical stuff when they spot a WiFi connection, or when my WiFi router does its d…
Offtopic: > or when my WiFi router does its daily reboot. Damn, I think that might fix 99% of the issues I have with my WiFi router.
I DO NOT understand how all routers I have ever owned are total garbage, but they all have been.
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note that it won't report reasons the machine was woken from hibernate, since hibernate isn't a sleep state. also, run the command as an administrator. not just using an account that is an administrator. use an elevated cmd prompt or PowerShell window. if you're doing all that, idk what's going on. You can, however, see what devices are capable of waking your machine, and then disable them, by using the commands in m…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ No hibernation, yes admin, yes elevated prompt, nada. Disabling devices has never worked for me either, again I'm legitimately surprised that these things have ever worked for anyone since it's never had any effect whenever I've tried it.
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Similar to PowerNap from Apple https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/what-is-power-nap-m... Although I don't think Apple recommends not keeping your laptop in a bag.
FWIW: 1) Looking at System Preferences right now, the setting for Power Nap reads as follows: > [x] Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter > While sleeping, your Mac can back up using Time Machine and periodically check fro new email, calendar, and other iCloud updates This indicates that it should not have any affect on a sleeping MacBook in a bag (presumably disconnected from power). 2) That said, I ha…
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Offtopic: > or when my WiFi router does its daily reboot. Damn, I think that might fix 99% of the issues I have with my WiFi router.
I have a $300 Ubiquiti Dream Machine and that thing CANT be scheduled to reboot. doesn't matter because Ethernet dies twice a day, and I need to use my phone to get to the admin page to restart the thing. most annoying and expensive router I've ever owned. I DO NOT understand how all routers I have ever owned are total garbage, but they all have been.
Hm, or you could just use a Raspberry Pi.
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are there devices which are allowed to wake your computer? powercfg -devicequery wake_armed if anything shows up, disable those devices with this command: powercfg -devicedisablewake "Device Name" I quickly googled this but I don't expect a lot of people to know what to search for, so if you've already found this and tried it, then I really am out of ideas this time. if you haven't tried this, try it, and I really ho…
I got rid of that PC a year ago :P But trust me, I tried literally every trick in the book, including the one above. No devices had the capability to wake up the PC(yes, including the mouse and the keyboard), disabled all wake timers, disabled all networking(in fact unplugged the ethernet cable).....it would still wake up in the middle of the night. It was the most confusing thing I ever dealt with in computers.
It's possible auto wakeup was enabled in the BIOS, with the wake time set to the default of 00:00.
Alternatively, if it was a different time, perhaps *that* was the default, or maybe the value accidentally got changed.
Alternatively-alternatively, maybe the BIOS had a bug in it that somehow enabled auto wake without presenting an option. To tackle this, I would've reset the BIOS settings. (I once had an ADSL2+ modem that randomly started flaking out and not connecting correctly. Changed every accessible setting I could, no dice. Factory reset = instantly back to normal.)