How Can I Prevent My Computer From Sleeping

I left my computer overnight to transfer footage in Final Cut Pro. My settings on ENergy Saver are set so that the "Put Hard Disk to Sleep WHenever Possible" is unchecked. However when I woke up this morning the screen was black and asleep and so was my external harddrive - a G Drive. So none of the files went through. How can I stop this?

Hi Molly, if it's not honoring your settings, & not sleeping due to heat or such, might try this...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these files to the Desktop.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist
(Then Trash the original of these last two, as "moving" them only copies them.)
Then reboot once more & setup your Energy Saver prefs.

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