Put imac to Sleep or Shut Down

What's up guys
I'm just wondering, I use Logic pro
a lot and I would like have quick
access when I have a creative urge.
How often should I shut down my imac
as apposed to putting it to sleep?

Several schools of thought:
1) never shut it off (but it's OK to let the display sleep, i.e., go to screen saver, but never let the computer or the hard drives go to sleep)
2) turn it on and off as needed
3) put the computer to sleep (including display and hard drives) when not being used
Considerations:
1) "always on" --- if having immediate access to your computer to get down creative ideas ASAP is important then there should be no other factors to consider.
2) "on/off as needed" -- the exact opposite of #1
3) "sleep" -- a happy medium? It depends... Waking a computer from sleep still means that you have to wait a while before you can start to record. You should experiment with your system to see how successfully it wakes up after being put to sleep before committing to this practice. Sometimes a system won't wake up from sleep and you'll have to re-boot anyway.

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When I click on my Imac to sleep, it shuts down instead

When I click on my Imac to sleep, it shuts down instead

Hello, Hank.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
Here is an article that I would recommend when experiencing this issue.
OS X: When your Mac doesn't sleep or wake
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5357
Cheers,
Jason H.

Should I put it to SLEEP or SHUT DOWN?

Greeting everyone. I recently purchased my first Macbook, my first laptop ever. I've pretty much grown up using a desktop pc. I turn it on when I get home, put it on sleep mode when I leave it to watch tv or what not. If I'm done with it for the day, I turn it off.
Now before everone jumps on me for probably doing the wrong thing please note that I come from a "Turn it off when you're not using it kind of family". Can someone give me some pointers in using my new mac? For example, someone told me that I can actually leave my macbook in sleep mode the entire day even when traveling to and from school/work. Is this safe for my macbook? I apologize if this is such an elementary question.

I have found that my machines respond better when I just close the lid (sleep). It is important to understand that the laptop caches everything in memory to the hard drive before it goes to sleep, so you want to make sure you allow the extra time for that to happen (wait until the sleep light starts pulsating) before you move the laptop if you can. Otherwise you're moving the machine while the hard drive is still spinning. I know that the newer laptops typically have a Sudden Motion Sensor that will automatically park the heads under certain conditions, but why tempt fate? Depending on how many applications you have running, and how much RAM you have installed, going into sleep mode can take longer than you might expect. Whether you adapt a sleep or shut down operating preference (I prefer sleep- only shutting down every once in a while for OS installs, restarts due to problems, etc.), it is much more important to follow Apple's guidelines for calibrating the battery. Not only does following these instructions allow the computer to more accurately report the battery charge level, it also runs the lithium ion battery through a complete cycle - something that is needed every once in a while to keep it operating in tip-top shape. The instructions for the procedure are found here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/9036.html

Is it good to put mac to sleep or shut down?

Hello, I wanted to know which is better for my macbook air, putting it to sleep or shutting it down? I use it almost everyday, exceptions when I am at work and sleeping. When is best to shut it down?

I believe there's no right or wrong answer ... it's personal preference. I use my MacBook Air every day, and keep it asleep during the day when I'm not using it. But I shut it down every night.

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I have a 20" G5 PPC iMac running 10.4.11 with 2.5 GB RAM.
I recently restarted the machine after it had been shut down over a long weekend.
Everything booted up and worked as usual until I tried to load iPhoto, which froze with the spinning wheel. I wasn't able to force it to quit, so shut down the machine. Restarted, iPhoto loaded, everything seemed as normal.
However, by habit I usually select Sleep from the Apple menu when I'm leaving the machine for a while - now Sleep does not work via the Apple menu (it works as normal when left as per the time set in the Energy Saver settings). I noticed that after I tried to make the machine sleep I was also unable to use the scroll functions in Firefox - unsure if this is connected.
The Restart and Shut Down and other commands from the Apple menu also do not work, if they are selected after Sleep has been selected from the Apple menu and the machine has not consequently been manually shut down (i.e. via the button on the back).
I've shut down and restarted several times to no effect and and have run Disk Utility, which found nothing to be repaired.
Now If I start up and then select Sleep from the Apple menu without first launching any other programs, the spinning wheel appears and I'm unable to click on or select anything on the desktop or from the Apple or Finder menus. The only way out is to manually switch off.
Can anyone suggest what may be wrong and how to go about fixing it?
Thanks in advance.

I've tried playing around with the Energy Saver settings in System Preferences - any attempt at changes or restoring defaults gives the spinning wheel and an application not responding message.
Shut Down and Restart now appear to work from the Apple menu, but the machine will now not sleep at all (even if left until it should do so according to the Energy Saver settings).
Any ideas?

Imac to sleep or shut down ?

Many users like to leave their iMac on sleep position , but I've noticed that the inside FAN still working .
What to decide over night ?
Thanks

I leave my machine on 24/7 and only let the display sleep. When I get "wake" it the temps are typically:
HD                              37
CPU                            32
Airport Control Card     42
GPU                            39
HD Bay                       39
Mem Controller            37
Power Supply              56

Putting my Intel based iMac to sleep or shut down?

What are the pros vs cons for this?
Thnaks

I run my machines 24/7, only sleeping the display and never the computer or HDs. Powering on and off put the most strain on electronic components. The amount of electricity saved isn't worth the cost of replacing things. My 2¢.

Sleep mode shut down

i recently upgraded to 10.4.9 and everytime i put computer to sleep it shut down after about 5 min. i checked all energy set pionts and they are default to never shut down. what could be problem?

Try these diagnostic procedures:
1) Try trashing these 3 .plist preferences and reboot. Reset your Energy Saver preferences.
HD > Library > Preferences > SystemConfiguration > com.apple.AutoWake.plist & com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
User > Library > Preferences > com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
2) Do an Open Firmware reset: Hold the CommandOption+OF keys during startup. At the '>' prompt type:
>reset-nvram
Return
>set-defaults
Return
>reset-all
Return
Reset PRAM:
1. Shut down the computer.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound (bong) for the second time.
6. Release the keys.
3) Reset your PMU.
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Sleep and Shut-down menu commands

Our 500 MHz Power PC G3, upgraded to system 10.4.6, is a great machine and a real work horse for us. However, it has been acting up lately. The apple symbol drop down menu command that puts the computer to sleep, restart, shut down etc. will not respond. The key board commands for sleep etc. also don't work. I tried the Disk Utilitly- First Aid, both Disk Repairs and Permissions. "No repairs were necessary" for both. I even reinstalled OS 10.4.6 which seems to have complicated the problem and ate a big chunk of our precious little harddrive memory. Now every time I start up I get the warning message, "Application Launch Failure" The applicaton "Transport Monitor' could not be launched
because of a shared library error:"8<Transport Monitor><Transport Monitor><HotSyncLib.PPC><"
Could this be the root of the drop-down menu problem?

As I said, a weak or dead PRAM battery can reportedly cause odd startup issues. If it has never been changed in six years, that's a really long-lasting battery, even if the iMac was kept on continuously.
They are pretty cheap from the right source, so you may want to try changing it.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item-specials/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/

IMac seems to randomly shut down

This is very strange...my 2.0GHz iMac G5 (May 2005) appears to be randomly shutting down. I don't know much about the problem because it usually happens during the day when I am at school. I checked the Power Saver settings and I have it to never sleep, never shut down, etc.
Any other possible causes for this problem? It's minor but frustrating. Thanks!

Actually....I read the article a little more thoroughly....
"The program is available for certain first generation iMac G5 models that were sold between approximately September 2004 and June 2005 featuring 17- and 20-inch displays with 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz G5 processors.
The affected iMac G5 computers have serial numbers where the first 5 digits fall into the ranges noted below.
Serial Number ranges:
W8435xxxxxx - W8522xxxxxx
QP435xxxxxx - QP522xxxxxx
CK435xxxxxx - CK522xxxxxx
YD435xxxxxx - YD522xxxxxx
Some second generation iMac G5 computers have serial numbers that fall within the upper band of the ranges listed below. Only first generation iMac G5 computers are affected by this program."
It seems my iMac is a second generation. Luckily, it's still under the one-year warranty. I'll have to look into this.

Won't go to sleep or shut down

My iMac won't go to sleep or shut down when I tell it to. If I push the button on the back to make it go to sleep it doesn't do anything and if I select sleep from the apple menu it doesn't go to sleep. If I click shut down in the Apple menu it goes to a blue sreen and then the little loading symbol comes up and it just loads. I left it for an hour and it was still loading so I just held down the back button and turned it off that way. What can I do to resolve this?

First, try eliminating some variables-
Disconnect any devices attached via firewire or USB, and try again.
Some USB devices have been known to prevent the iMac from going to sleep or shutting down.

When waking from sleep, it shuts down

I use the energy saver to put the computer to sleep when I'm not using it. When I hit a button to "wake" the computer, it starts to spin up but then shuts down.
I was told by Apple (when I still had my call-in protection plan) that this was because there was no room on my hard drive. This first happened when I had about 1 GB left (60GB drive). I have subsequently bought an external drive on to which I have moved my music files and now have 25+ GB, so that should no longer be an issue.
Any ideas?

USB scanners are generally a red flag for sleep-related isuues but usually in terms of failing to wake or failing to sleep, not shutting down instead of waking up. You can check if the peripheral hardware is involved by disconnecting all peripherals other than keyboard and mouse, Starting Up in Safe Mode (to disable any peripheral drivers), and seeing if you can then sleep and wake the Mac without the shutdown problem.
The system.log messages indicate you have the Mac set to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN); I'm not familar wnough with that to be sure if it affects the wake-from-sleep issue. You may want to post that snippet from the system.log along with a statement of the problem in the Using OS X 10.4 Tiger forum part of the Apple Discussions in order to reach a broader audience than in the eMac part of the Discussions.
The 'SystemUIServer not responding' message may be helped if you try this:
-- trash /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
-- trash /Users/[username]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
-- reboot while resetting PRAM
To reset PRAM, restart, as soon as the screen goes dark, hold down command-option-p-r until you hear three sets of chimes, then release the keys and let the Mac finish starting up. You may need to re-do some System Preferences settings after resettings PRAM (see What's stored in PRAM?)
BTW, a viable workaround is to change the Energy Saver settings to slepp the display only after XX number of minutes, with put system to slepp set to Never and put hard drives to slepp when possible unchecked. That also ensures the Mac can perform the background maintenance tasks overnight. If you normally shut down an OS X Mac overnight or leave it in system sleep, the cron maintenance tasks cannot run in their nominal 3 am timeframe. (Display-only sleep allows the maintenance tasks to run). Tiger 10.4.2 and later will force the maintenance tasks to run after sufficient time has elapsed, but kust how long is long enough, and whether the timer is reset on shutdown, isn't entirely clear. You can leave the Mac in display-only sleep a weekend or two a month; you can manually Force Background Maintenance; or you can use a third-party utility such as OnyX to run the maintenance. Note that any system utility you use must be compatible with the OS version (e.g., use the Tiger version of OnyX with 10.4.x).

Solution for those People having sleep and shut down problem.

Solution for those People having sleep and shut down problem.Go CONTROL PANEL
select RECOVERY
select OPEN SYSTEM RESTORE
then restore your laptop
This process work for me Please comment below if it was helpful toyou

As I said, a weak or dead PRAM battery can reportedly cause odd startup issues. If it has never been changed in six years, that's a really long-lasting battery, even if the iMac was kept on continuously.
They are pretty cheap from the right source, so you may want to try changing it.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item-specials/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/

Cannot sleep or shut down when connected to TV through DVI

I recently reinvigorated my 2003 Power Mac G5 (Power PC) with a clean install of OSX Leopard and connected it to my TV via a VGA cable and DVI adapter. I soon discovered the computer would not sleep or shut down with the TV connected:
- Selecting "sleep" from apple menu, OR
- Pressing sleep button on original ADC monitor (with both monitors connected,) OR
- Waiting for 15 minute automatic sleep mode:
computer sleeps (tower clicks off as normal) but immediately wakes again
- Selecting "shut down" from apple menu:
computer shuts down completely but immediately reboots
When the G5 runs on only the original monitor, sleep and shutdown commands work as expected.
Aside from unplugging the DVI adapter every time I want to sleep or shut down, is there a solution to this problem?

I've seen the TV problem before, not sure there is a cure, but perhaps one of these...
http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6.cgi?action=Showitem&id=ID15122041&partno =30011&search=VGA_SWITCH&rsite=&rcode=
The DVI ones don't have high enough resolution...
http://www.pccables.com/cgi-bin/orders6.cgi?action=Showitem&id=ID15122044&partno =81112&search=DVI_SWITCH&rsite=google.comsearc&rcode=

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