Is there a way to automatically shut down laptop when power button pressed?
Of all the things I am having to struggle through a learning curve on MacOS (converted from Windows), this might seem like a rather benign concern, but I'm going to ask anyway. . .
I would like for my laptop to automatically go through a shutdown process when the power button is pressed - that is, bypass the dialog box that appears when hitting the power button that gives you the option to restart/shutdown, etc.
I've looked in all of my system preferences without anything that controls the behavior of this button so I imagine there might be a terminal command or an app that might accomplish this?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
I'm trying to set up my MacOS to have the power button automatically go through the shutdown process as IF I had actually clicked on a confirmation box to shut down the computer.
I don't know of any way of doing that... perhaps there's a 'haxie' out there that would generate a shutdown command when pressing the power button, but I don't know of one.
Sorry,
Clinton
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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 16288 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 1
Anonymous UUID: D7593072-5BAD-47CF-B33A-451E1AC0D89D
Wed Feb 13 19:58:38 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002c4794): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f816fb5fb, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0xffffff806a85c628, CR3: 0x0000000000100000, CR4: 0x00000000001606e0
RAX: 0xffffff7f81758320, RBX: 0x0000000000000000, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0x0000000000000008
RSP: 0xffffff8091b23c80, RBP: 0xffffff8091b23cb0, RSI: 0xffffff800b62f000, RDI: 0xffffff806a54a000
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0xffffff800b5c7980, R10: 0xffffff800086edd0, R11: 0x00000000cccccccd
R12: 0xffffff806a54a1c8, R13: 0xffffff806a85a000, R14: 0xffffff800b62f000, R15: 0xffffff806a54a000
RFL: 0x0000000000010286, RIP: 0xffffff7f816fb5fb, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
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0xffffff8091b23930 : 0xffffff8000220792
0xffffff8091b239b0 : 0xffffff80002c4794
0xffffff8091b23b60 : 0xffffff80002da55d
0xffffff8091b23b80 : 0xffffff7f816fb5fb
0xffffff8091b23cb0 : 0xffffff7f816fade7
0xffffff8091b23ce0 : 0xffffff7f816fb1bd
0xffffff8091b23d10 : 0xffffff7f80cd5832
0xffffff8091b23d50 : 0xffffff7f81783383
0xffffff8091b23da0 : 0xffffff7f81785692
0xffffff8091b23de0 : 0xffffff7f817857c4
0xffffff8091b23e20 : 0xffffff7f80cd94c5
0xffffff8091b23e60 : 0xffffff7f80cd9628
0xffffff8091b23e90 : 0xffffff7f80cdcfd7
0xffffff8091b23ef0 : 0xffffff800063d4d6
0xffffff8091b23f30 : 0xffffff800063c250
0xffffff8091b23f70 : 0xffffff800063c0f4
0xffffff8091b23fb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
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I tried that with no improvement. I think I might have to have the fans replaced. do you know if this is a particularly difficult procedure? Something wierd that I've noticed is that if I have a video on for more than several minutes, the fans comes on, and also when I am on a Skype video conference for awhile. Otherwise, the fan jst doen't come on as the intels heaten up to the point the the auto shut down kicks in...any advise? This definitely interupts my work! Thanks for your help and input thus far!
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My macbook suddenly shut down, and when rebooted, imovie project was completely gone. No record of it at all. Have been working on it for days, and it has always been there. Other projects are still there. Any way to restore it? Thanks.
I figured it out!!!
Hey guys! Here's what I did that saved my project.
-SHORT VERSION-
Use the Finder window on your Mac to copy and paste your old project (the one not showing up in imovie) to a new folder so that iMovie will see it.
-LONG VERSION-
CONDITIONS:
The project has to exist on your hard drive. To see if it's hiding around somewhere go to:
Home (your name)>Movies>iMovie Library (right click and select Show Package Contents)
In the iMovie Library folder (the default is usually the date) open it to see if your Project is inside. If it is, you are in luck!
RESTORING PROJECT:
Open iMovie
start a new folder under the iMovie Library (again, the default is usually todays date)
Close iMovie
In the finder window (as explained above in the CONDITIONS section) select the files and folders of your project and copy them (in my case these consist of folders called Analysis Files, Original Media, "MYPROJECT", Render Files, Shared Items)
There should now be a folder with today's date in that Show Package Contents folder.
Paste a copy of your project;s files into this folder.
When it is done copying, open up the "Original Media" folder and all of your images and clips should be present.
reopen iMovie. Your project should show up in the Libraries list.
*If your full project isn't showing in the iMovie timeline (mine just had empty bubbles where all my clips and audio should be) try dragging and dropping the clips and images from the project's "Original Media" folder into the import section of your project. Once the files were reimported, iMovie recognized them all and put them back in the correct place for me.
Hope this helps someone! -
Is an immediate automatic shut down possible?
Hi -
Is there a way to override the Energy Saver automatic shut down timer so that the computer shuts down immediately? I'm referring to the dialog that appears with a count-down timer saying this computer will automatically shut down in 10 minutes.
I'm having a bit of a problem staying up way too late on the computer and I'd like the machine to shut down immediately at a preset time, no matter what I'm doing -- kick me off, so to speak. I'm afraid I tend to just cancel the automatic shut down timer dialog.
I realize I could risk losing some data doing this, but I need some sleep!
Thanks experts, S.I don't think there is a way to immeidately shut down your machine other than the 10 minute countdown from the Schedule in the Energy Saver.
Forum, correct me if I'm wrong.
Sorry.
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Adjusting automatic shut-down on battery?
Before installing Mountain Lion this summer, I used to have a slider or some way of controlling when my Macbook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) shut down on battery power. I was able to set it for 10% battery life or whatever, and go through a full discharge cycle. There were also warning pop-up alerts, letting me know when I was in critical time zone with battery life, and I think there was even a message like "you have 15 minutes of battery power left."
Now with ML and the last two updates, my battery reaches about 30% battery life and poof! everything goes black. No warning. No pop-up alert. Just a black screen.
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MacBook Pro automatically shutting down
My Macbook Pro (2010) keeps automatically shutting down almost every time I put the screen down. WHAT CAN I DO??
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Post the messages logged before the boot, while the system was unresponsive or was failing to shut down. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the end of the log extract.
Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message. When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful. -
Dreaded Black Screen and automatic shut-down. Why does this happen ?
Why do I get a Black Screen and automatic shut-down ? My iMac felt warm...and I never hear a fan go on..could overheating be why it shuts down?
Hi Tish,
A few things.
If you bough this iMac used with no original install/hardware test discs, you can call Apple at 1-800-MYAPPLE ask for software sales and tell them you need a set of iMac replacement install/hardware test discs. You'll need to give the Apple rep your iMac's serial number.to get the appropriate discs. There will be around a $16 or $17 U.S. charge for discs.
Since your iMac is still freezing, I now wonder if it is RAM and/or hard drive related.
Your iMac maybe freezing because of serious lack of RAM.
How full is your Mac's hard drive?
You only have 1 GB of RAM installed.
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard really needs more RAM than this.
Intel versions of OS X use more CPU, GPU, RAM and hard drive resources.
OS X, running alone (without any other applications running) can use up between 2 and 4 GBs of RAM memory.
Youf iMac model can 4 GBs of RAM, but only about 3.1 to 3.3 GBs of it will be recognized.
Correct and reliable Mac RAM can be purchased from online Mac RAM sources Crucial memory or OWC (macsales.com).
Without being able to run the Apple hardware test we have no way of knowing the condition of your iMac's hard drive.
The freezing could, also, be caused from a failing hard drive.
If you do not have any backup of your data, this is the time to create one.
Backup your important data to either DVD discs, flash drive/s or purchase an external hard drive to backup all,of your data to.
You can make an exact clone of the data, on your internal hard drive, using a data cloning like CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper. OR purchase the external drive and use OS X Time Machine to automatically backup your entire internal drive. -
When I start iTunes on my home computer (Not a MAC), it automatically shuts down, and gives me the message that the Data Execution Prevention security feature has shut it down...what to do?
For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it, which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
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