Problems Shutting MAc down

having trouble shuting down when computer is running with battery power only ... please help .. how can i fix this ... the screen turns blue and a spining wheel comes up... i have left it alone to this a how long it wouod take to shut down ( it not the clolorful beach ball)... the news is that the computer run out battery juice before it shut itself down ...

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In Applescript, you can still shut down the computer, so there is no reason Retrospect could not run a script to shut down the Mac after completing. You might want to ask them why they dropped the capability.
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Connecting iPod shuts Mac down

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Have you tried either booting from your Tiger DVD and running Disk Utility to both "repair disk" and "repair permissions on the Mac HD, or booting from the internal drive in "safe mode"? The "allocation overflow" error looks like some serious disc corruption to me. This might also occur if the HD is very full. Always aim to keep several gigabytes free, espcially on a boot disk. ( Something like this sounds like the most likely cause of the problem.)
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Have you been able to connect other USB devices to the same port without problems?
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for some reason i cant shut down my mac because my mail is up still i try to close it and everything but it still says to close it even though i did??

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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
I am wondering if your hard drive is failing? You might try downloading and running SMART Utility on it:
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I have problem my Mac shut down alone and I can't back it cuz in my country we dint have apple store ..?

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This mohanned, I'm from Saudi Arabia but I'm living in California, I bought MacBook Pro from ur store couple months ago it was great but now I have problem shut don't and look like I and downlod a new a new OS X but really I can't do it !! Also we don't have in my city good store to fix it. So I need ur help guys

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Problems shutting down after installing 10.5.3 update?

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