Macbook with external monitor, running Lion, will not go to sleep
I have software version 10.7.5 and my macbook will not go to sleep on its own. It will go to sleep if I hit the power button and then tell it to go to sleep. I have turned off all sharing and I have set the preferences to sleep after 15 minutes. Yet, I hear the hard drive spinning all of the time. Any suggestions??
Have you reset the SMC? If not, try that.
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If you've done that, and it didn't help, then launch the Terminal application by entering the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Copy or drag -- do not type -- the line below into the Terminal window, then press return:
pmset -g
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered -- the text, please, not a screenshot. Then repeat with the following line:
pmset -g assertion
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