Auto sleeping after scheduled wake!??

How do I prevent my Intel iMac from going back to sleep shortly after its scheduled wake? I have it scheduled to wake in the moring and sleep at 10pm. It is waking up to the login screen, which is what I want, but it then goes back to sleep if no activity, which is what I don't want, because I have some processes running during business hours.

I called Apple. Turns out (now follow carefully) if the computer WAKES up to the authentication screen, it will go back to sleep in 30 seconds, if no one authenticates. This makes sense, because if the computer goes to sleep, you don't want someone to wake the machine by accident, by moving the mouse; HOWEVER, if the machines is SCHEDULED to wake up (i.e. because you want it to wake up, like in the morning, to run processes during the day) you DON't want it to go back to sleep, just becaue no one was there to authenticate (i.e. why would there be, since it was purposefully set to wake up via the schedule!). You want it to wake up to the authentication screen, for security.
SOLUTION request for Apple: Don't put the computer back to sleep after 30 seconds, after a SCHEDULED wakeup.

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Hello there, peijinc.
I understand your MacBook Pro seems to be taking longer than expected when coming back from sleep. It sounds like you may be seeing the Mavericks feature called Safe Sleep. The following Knowledge Base article offers up an explanation of how that feature works:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5963
If you feel that this period of time is greater than normal, this article offers some practical steps to troubleshoot your Mac:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5357
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If the steps above do not resolve your sleep-related issue, try these additional recommendations.
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I have set my mac to wake at a certain time. The mac wouldn't do this so I deleted a number of plist files per another post, com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, com.apple.AutoWake.plist, com.apple.PowerManagement.plist.
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Around 4 years ago, I noticed that my computer stopped going to sleep. I first noticed it shortly after adopting Gmail for my email platform and was subsequently able to isolate the issue down to Gmail and other websites, such as Huffington Post, which auto-refresh. Apparently, any website that auto-refreshes at shorter intervals than the auto-sleep is set to kick in, prevent the computer's auto-sleep function from activating.
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The auto-sleep function was built before websites auto-updated and needs to be updated to accomodate them. For the average user, it doesn't make sense for the computer not to sleep just because Gmail is open. Just because some website auto-refreshes in my browser, doesn't mean I never want my computer to sleep. By the same token, if I wanted to turn off auto-sleep I could easily do so from within Energy Saver Preferences. The two should be independent, so the user has the choice.
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IMO, do not take this nightly automatic maintenance into account as it should not, and does not, influence your work and habits.
--> Since 10.4.2 the nightly tasks run automatically anyway (delayed), even if your computer was asleep at the default scheduled times. A very good enhancement, that would be perfect if only we could leave our computers ALWAYS on without restarting ever.
Still no automation if shut down at night neither.
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