Mac not sleeping

I have a Macbook Pro late 2012, model 9,2 i7 - I upgraded to Mavericks and now my Sleep command off the apple start menu doesnt work anymore. I have my macbook pro hooked up to an external monitor. This worked fabulously in Mountain Lion. Has anyone seen this? my search of the web has been less than successful.
Thank you in advance !

I have a macbook pro 10,2 that doesn't go to sleep after the time in system settings. It sleeps with the apple menu sleep command though. this too is only after maverick.

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Hello, my Mac isn't sleeping when idle.
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   PreventSystemSleep               0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep   1
   ExternalMedia                         0
   UserIsActive                           0
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   BackgroundTask                     1
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How can I get it to sleep without unplugging it from my computer?

I just did the pmset -g assertions command again, and here's what I found:
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But ExternalMedia had 1
And I checked to see if the headphones were causing it, but nope, so I figured out its not my headphones.
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Hi this was the original post I posted a couple days ago.
"Hi All,
I have had a problem with my mac book pro, it does not sleep while the screen is left open. The way I used to be able to tell if the mac is sleeping is the light on the front should flash as it does when the screen is closed. Here is what has happened in the past.
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Chris"
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1. Deleting Login Items
2. Turning off blu-tooth
3. Unchecking "wake for network access"
Sources given:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3402
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4167
However, the same problem came back last night.
Any ideas what is causing this?
Thanks,
Chris

I forgot to mention that I followed the same instructions that did solve the problem.
The things I tried were:
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2. closing all apps
Doing this however did not solve my problem either.
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Mac Pro will not sleep properly after installing new SATA BD-CD-DVD drive.

Hello and thank you in advance for time reading this.
I have been using a Mac Pro for 4 years and it never happened to me before.
This started almost immediately after installing a new SATA BD-CD-DVD Drive.
When the Mac is ordered to sleep, It shuts down 3 out of 4 Hard Drives
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and the display has no signal.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11238080
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When i put my Mac for sleep it takes more time than normal (>20 secs). Sometimes, coming back from sleep the system is not responding (freeze).

Perform SMC and NVRAM resets:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
The try a safe boot:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
Any change?
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Since Snow Leopard, Mac Pro will not sleep with Apple wireless keyboard

I have an odd problem, now on 2 Mac Pro (Nehalem) with 10.6.1:
Since Snow Leopard, the system will not sleep as long as a) the user is logged on (any users/profile) and b) the Apple aluminum wireless keyboard is 'attached'.
If I log off first, sleep works fine. If I turn the keyboard off first, it's fine. But if hitting 'sleep' when logged on, the screen turns dark, sleep process begins, but the system comes right back (with a note 'keyboard disconnected'.
It's as if the keyboard disconnects after sleep, but the system still monitors it, and wakes up.
Note: Wake for bluetooth devices IS NOT ENABLED!
Here is the console log (relevant info):
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Hi,
and thanks for posting that.
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Anyone ?!
Thanks as always,
Dan

My mac is not sleeping!

Hey, I'm having a problem with my mac. It won't sleep automatically (by energy saver settings). I've deleted the iStat Dashboard Menu, quit LogMeIn, closed all apps.
Any ideas?

Here's my sleep tip......
This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
Here is Apple doc.#303698 with their tips.
Mine follow;
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
If you've set your Mac to receive faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.
If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Receive Faxes On This Computer box.
If that doesn't work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password).
If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
Hope this helps!
P.S. One member here reported this (Michael Gleason);
"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB cards. Also, here is Apple doc.#305262 about PCI cards and sleep.
tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.
Tristan Currier noticed this; "I have a Canon printer(shared) and my imac would not sleep. I opened up printer/fax in system prefs and noticed it said the printer was in use when it was off. Opened up the printer queue and noticed about 7 pending documents. Deleted them all and now it sleeps.
Check the printer queue!"
Good Luck!  DALE

Since installing snow leopard10.6, MAC will not sleep?

Since installing snow leopard10.6, MAC will not sleep? Any ideas?

Try reinstalling it:
Reinstall OS X without erasing the drive
1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
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2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
If the drive is OK then quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed with reinstalling OS X. Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files. After installing a fresh copy of OS X the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, support items, and network preferences into the newly installed system.
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My Mac will not sleep

I've just about had enough now, to the point where I'm considering simply reinstalling the OS and starting from scratch but I thought I'd ask here first before doing so.
Firstly, my Mac won't simply go to sleep even though I have it set up in the Energy Saver to go to sleep after 10 mins (display sleep is 2 mins and this works ok).
When I then put the Mac to sleep manually it will sleep for a while and then randomly come back to life.
I've checked the console and the only thing that appears on wakeup is this:
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This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
Here is Apple's KB article HT1776 with their tips.
Mine follow;
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
If you've set your Mac to receive faxes, it may not be able to sleep. It might also have a damaged preferences file.
If you use your Mac for faxing, open System Preferences. click Print & Fax, click the Faxing tab, and uncheck the Receive Faxes On This Computer box.
If that doesn't work or you've never faxed on your Mac, go to Finder/Hard Drive /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and delete the com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and com..apple.AutoWake.plist files (if your Mac asks, type your admin. password).
If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
Hope this helps!
P.S. One member here reported this (Michael Gleason);
"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB card.
Also, here is Apple KB article TA2469 about PCI cards and sleep.
tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.
Tristan Currier noticed this; "I have a Canon printer(shared) and my imac would not sleep. I opened up printer/fax in system prefs and noticed it said the printer was in use when it was off. Opened up the printer queue and noticed about 7 pending documents. Deleted them all and now it sleeps.
Check the printer queue!"
Allan Jones says "sometimes there is Network activity: launch System Preferences > Energy Saver > "Options" tab and uncheck "Wake for Ethernet network administrator access."
One user has had success, after trying all these tips, using an App. called PleaseSleep. I've never used it though.
Good Luck!  DALE

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