Energy saver settings won't stick

I've set my iBook to NOT dim the screen prior to going to sleep. I've also disabled the screen saver and have set the display to sleep after 1 hour. Still, the screen dims (not much, but noticeably) after just a couple of minuts of inactivity. It seems that the energy saver settings have no effect. Does anyone else see this behavior?
Joe

Keep in mind that the "Energy Saver" lock is the same lock as all the other system Preferences locks. If one is unlocked they all are.
My Macbook never has gone to Sleep on it's own, ore rarely if at all. I have attributed it to a 56 dialup accelerator that I use as that program also causes it to take about 31 seconds to go to sleep any time you manually select Sleep from the menu. I just point this out because maybe you have some application that is causing a problem with Sleep.

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Energy saver settings do not stick when set in system preferences

For some reason when I restore the default settings for the energy saver settings, the settings go back to a custom setting I set months prior of Display Sleep at 1 minute.
Here is what I am doing:
Going to "System Preferences"
Going to "Energy Saver"
Pressing the button "Restore Defaults"
Everything goes back to the default settings of Computer Sleep of 10 minutes and Display Sleep of 10 minutes and I close the window out.
Problem happens: A bit later I come back to my iMac and wake it up, the setting is back to 1 minute of Display Sleep (which I did months ago, I no longer want that).
I have even locked the setting to prevent further changes. Which locks the settings in place like it should I believe. However, once the iMac sleeps and I wake it up in a couple of hours it switches back to the old setting I made months ago, 1 minute of Display Sleep, which I no longer want.
Thanks in advance for any assistance!

i have the opposite problem... i would like to use custom Energy Saver settings but they will not "stick." instead they keep returning to the default settings. i followed the advice on this thread, thinking it might solve my problem too. but it did not. any suggestions?
i had one hunch - that it might have something to do with the file of same name but with ~orig at the end (see image below). should i remove the other file as well?
thanks!

Energy Saver settings don't "stick"

It seems like at random times the settings I have set in Energy Saver, which I lock, become "unlocked." For example, I have Energy Saver set to put the display to sleep after 8 minutes of inactivity and for the hard drive to go to sleep after 10 minutes. The lock in the lower left corner of System Preferences is locked...for sure.
It'll work fine; then one day I'll lift the lid on the MacBook; use it for awhile; will set it down, thinking it'll go to sleep if I'm not back in 10 minutes; I'll come back an hour later, only to find that while the MacBook's screen is off, the HDD did NOT go to sleep as it's set to. I'll open System Preferences, and find that somehow the lock in Energy Saver is now UNlocked.
How does this happen? Am I missing something here? What causes the Energy Saver lock to become "unlocked?" I've been burned by having a drained battery several times, and I can't figure out what I'm missing to ensure this doesn't happen as REPEATEDLY as it is?

Keep in mind that the "Energy Saver" lock is the same lock as all the other system Preferences locks. If one is unlocked they all are.
My Macbook never has gone to Sleep on it's own, ore rarely if at all. I have attributed it to a 56 dialup accelerator that I use as that program also causes it to take about 31 seconds to go to sleep any time you manually select Sleep from the menu. I just point this out because maybe you have some application that is causing a problem with Sleep.

Machine goes to sleep faster than Energy Saver settings

Hi all,
(I've searched for existing threads aboutthis but couldn't find any. Hope I'm not "re" posting)
I use my laptop (MBP 2.4, 8gb, INtel Core i7) to play music live, so I need it to not go to sleep for at least... 30-40 minutes as I will frequently not touch it directly for that long as I'm busy playing my instruments. But it goes to sleep consistently after about 10 minutes even though I've got the display set to sleep abfter 1.5 hours and the computer to sleep after 2 hrs.
Then I noticed the same thing on my Mac Pro in my studio. Same Energy Saver settings, still goes to sleep after about 10-15 minutes. Which means I have to re-enter my password there too. Same thing on my older MBP. Theyr'e all on Lion 10.7.4.
This is very annoying. Anyone know what I'm doign wrong?
Huge thanks!

I'm not sure why Energy Saver is doing that, but you may want to download Caffeine from the Mac App Store. It's a menu bar application that you can click and unclick that, when clicked, keeps your Mac on until it is unclicked or if you close the laptop lid/manually put it to sleep.

Energy Saver settings not controlling shutdown

I've reset the SMU and PRAM and my problem continues to return. The computer shuts down in about 30 minutes regardless of what settings I put into Energy Saver. The only way I can prevent it is to open an image in Photoshop and then open an edit screen in a NIK plug-in. It still tries to shutdown but this stops it. I've noticed if Lightroom is running as well that it gets shutdown (even if playing a slideshow) and then the computer tries to quit but Photoshop stops it.
This has been going on for several months. I posted previously here and only response was to reset the above, which I do periodically. Any other suggestions? Is this a software or hardware problem?
I just want control back of my Energy Saver settings. It's almost impossible to download anything that is of any size - say an Apple 150Mb update.

Hi Mel
Set Computer sleep to Never, Display Sleep to say 10 minutes and uncheck the box "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible"
Then click the Schedule... button and make sure that the boxes for Startup, Wake, Sleep, Restart, Shutdown are unchecked and click OK.
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New member: My Settings won't stick; I don't know how to create a signature

My Settings won't stick; I don't know how to create a signature
How can I correct these two difficulties please?

Sorry, not clear. I meant "My Settings" (top right hand corner of FCE Discussions window), not in FCE itself. The time zone setting is accepted but the next time I look it has reverted to USA GMT-8 hours, and some other settings are similarly affected
and by "signature" I meant some text that always appears at the bottom of Discussions messages, saying somethink like "Mac Pro 2.0 GHz, FCE 3.5" etc. I can't see a place to specify that.
(But now I see something has appeared!)
Thanks.
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Strange behaviour of the Energy Saver settings

I noticed that the two sliders in the Energy Saver settings seem to work in tandem. If I set the Display to "Never shutdown" (I used this as I don't want my display/TV to go off in the middle of a movie as the mac sees there are no user interactions), and then try to adjust the sleep timer to anything (15min, 30min, etc.), it aligns the slider for the Display at the same point!
Is it happening only on my mac or is it the way it works for others?

That would be the simple logic. But, the scenario I mentioned is also a logical one. I have noticed that when I am watching a long Youtube video or an online movie from sites like Jaman, the screen would go off even though the system access is alive. At that time I have to scramble to the mouse/kbd to reactivate the display.
At the same time, I want to put the mini to sleep after 30min of inactivity. Hence, I want to set the sleep timer to 30min and the display to "never".
The energy saver settings show two separate sliders and there is no indication that they are attached at the hips.
Since it works this way for you as well, then I am not doing something weird. I think this is a bug in the OS.

My macbook pro's screen constantly goes dim. I have set the energy saver settings for battery to 7 mins but it goes dim if the period of inactivity is less than 7 mins. Please help. MBP 13" OSX 10.6.8 (2011)

My macbook pro's screen constantly goes dim. I have set the energy saver settings for battery to 7 mins but it goes dim even if the period of inactivity is less than 7 mins. Please help. MBP 13" OSX 10.6.8 (2011)

Doesn't sound like it. It sounds like you're being logged-off.
Does your Mac go through the complete Restart cycle -- black screen, gray and/or blue screen momentarily, startup chime, etc?
If you're not sure, do a Restart just to watch the process; the next time the problem occurs, see if it's the same.
You need to know which it is, as these will have very different causes, and different places to look for a solution.

Drive sleep too quickly - all drives, regardless of energy saver settings

i have a g5 quad which from day one has had "narcolepsy issues". all drives (boot and secondary internal sata, fw400, fw800, usb2, and esata) have a tendency to spin down very soon, resulting in SBBODs. sometime for the standard few seconds but often indefinitely resulting in "not responding" status in both the finder and drive dependent apps like final cut pro.
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i have heard of others having this issue but have yet had anyone propose any solutions.
help! - wG
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I would first try a PMU reset and nvram reset. Instructions here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300341
and here:
http://www.macosg.com/group/viewtopic.php?t=5819
Secondly I would create another user account and see if the problem persists.

EMacs Energy Saver function won't work.

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harrytroeger,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
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Mac does not sleep after setting Energy Saver settings

Hi, got a slight problem after installing Leopard. The thing is that my Mac seems to ignore the settings specified in Energy Saver Preference Pane, the screen is put to sleep as it should, that's working fine, but the computer does not go to sleep when designated. I can put it to sleep manually (or by using Schedule) but setting an inactivity time doesn't work.
No visible console messages or similar, no external HDDs or other external devices, no bluetooth, no file sharing, no bad apparent application/process running, no spotlight indexing, as you see I have tried a few things to fix the problem...
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Ok, seems like I fixed the problem, the numerous things I tried must have solved it, probably the SMC or PRAM/NVRAM fixed it, though I'm not sure, but anyway it's working now, so I'm good.
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Energy Saver Preferences won't load

Hi,
I have a late 2011 MBP running Lion 10.7.4 and under system preferences I cannot open Energy Saver Preferences, Desktop and Screen Saver Preferences and Spotlight Preferences. I have googled and attempted all suggestions with no luck. Here is a rundown of what I have attempted so far.
1) Verifty Disk Permissions
2) Repair Disk Permissions
3) Verify Disk
4) Repair Disk
5) Went to /Library/Cache and deleted the two com.apple.preference.cache files
6) Used Terminal to do sudo commands
7) And Finally...did a fresh install of Lion.
Now I will copy my log from Console and maybe somebody can help me out...
7/13/12 1:01:28.128 PM System Preferences: Error loading /System/Library/PreferencePanes/EnergySaver.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/EnergySaver : dlopen(/System/Library/PreferencePanes/EnergySaver.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Ener gySaver, 265): Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSObject
Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
Expected in: /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
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If anyone has any suggestions please help.

A re-install won't touch anything in your Home folder.
Try this...
Quit System Preferences
Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library"
and delete these files/folders:
/Preferences/com.apple.system preferences .plist
/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.<12digitHexNumber>.plist
/Preferences/By Host/com.apple.systempreferences.xxx.plist of them)
and com.apple.PrefPane.Network.xxx.plist (the X's will be numbers)
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Energy Saver preferences won't save, I want to kill my mac

When I change the preferences in Energy Saver, in the System Preferences, to shut down the computer at 10 am, it won't save the change.
I go ahead and unlock Energy Saver (I'm the Admin), make my changes, lock it, and exit. Upon re-entry to the Energy saver screen it shows none of my changes. I tried restarting after making my changes and that did nothing either.
Some number of months ago I told my computer I needed it to shut down at 3:30 am because I often forgot to shut it off when I went to bed. Now it's seemingly perma-stuck on shutting down at 3:30 am when I don't need it to. Frequently I need to leave a download going but my bleeping computer shuts off at 3:30 am in the middle of the download and I have to either start over or wait 5 hours for it to finish when it could've been downloaded while I slept.
This is a ridiculous problem to be having and I can't figure out why the changes won't save.

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Thanks,
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