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Hi,
I have disabled Power Nap but I realize that it still is working when on AC. I have a set of rules in Mail.app to keep the mailboxes organized, and I have an iPhone where I only push the Inbox.
Problem is, I don't want Power Nap to update my e-,mail because it also distributes e-mail to the folders on the rules. Sometimes I only pick my macbook later on the day and I need to have all the e-mail I+m receiving on the IMAP inbox.
Does anyone know how to uninstall Power Nap? (macbook retina mid 2012 here)
or better yet
Does anyone know how to go deeper on the Power Nap (maybe by editing preferences files) and select which operations I want Power Nap to do and not to do?
I know I can solve it by closing the Mail.app before I put my computer to sleep, but I actually like to keep it open, I keep all the apps I use on a daily basis open so when I wake it up it's faster to start working.
Kind regards,
João de Sousa Aroso

Going to try it, although it will make me have to check for mails manually while the laptop is on right?
edit: it doesn't. Somehow the mails are pushed to my laptop although mail is in manual setting. Nevertheless I don't believe this will solve the power nap issue. Mail.app behaviour is the same, even having manual checking or not.
Is there anyone who knows how to manually configure the actions while power naping?
Thanks...

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Yeah I still have the same problem BTW; it still does not work.
The second I open the lid and take it out of sleep mode, it starts to backup automagically, but when it's sleeping EVEN when it's connected to AC power, TM backups do NOT work to my OS X Server.
I don't understand what the problem is here.
I didn't before but I do have FileVault turned on now -- should that make a difference?
In either situation it didn't work, but now that I think about it, I could understand why it wouldn't backup while asleep. Apparently the encrypted volume will stay encrypted during sleep and even at the lock screen; it's not until you open the lid and log in from the lock screen that it will unlock the encrypted boot volume.
But even still, I did *not* have FV turned on before, and this still did not work.
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Thanks for your help everyone...Looking forward to a solution that works.
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I found this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4158709
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