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My Apple MacBook Pro will not go to sleep - what can I do?

Asked by tichance (1points) June 4th, 2009

I put my MacBook Pro into my bag and it overheats as the machine never goes to sleep.

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robmandu's avatar

Check your system preferences – can’t remember which exactly right now – and ensure that you’ve got it config’d to go to sleep when you close the screen.

jrpowell's avatar

Could you try running “pmset -g” in the Terminal. (without quotes) It should look similar to what is below. I would like to see what yours outputs.

john-powells-imac52:~ johnpowell$ pmset -g
Active Profiles:
AC Power 2*
Currently in use:
sleep 10
displaysleep 10
autorestart 0
hibernatefile /var/vm/sleepimage
hibernatemode 0
powerbutton 1
halfdim 1
womp 1
ttyskeepawake 1
disksleep 10

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richardhenry's avatar

@MrGeneVan Get a more helpful answer. <3

Cardinal's avatar

Helpful, you say. Tylenol Simply Sleep puts me to sleep QUICK.

Really, my OSX desktop was acting like that early on. During one of the Genius Bar tech visits, he made a small adjustment and all is fine now. Don’t know what he did.

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