Schedule shut down

I keep setting my settings for my computer to shut down at 10:45PM and wake up at 4am. It never does it, every time I get up in the morning before 4am, the computer is still running. I've checked to make sure I wanted it to shut down and not sleep, every thing checks out, it just won't shut down unless I manually shut it down myself.

Hit there,
One thing that may be preventing the automatic shutdown is that the computer is asleep at the scheduled time. The article below has more information.
Computer must be awake for scheduled shut down to occur in Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3902
-Griff W.

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It's been getting hot here in the afternoons, and last week I came home from work and found my Al iMac 20" shut down. It was very hot in here, even after 8pm, so I figured it probably overheated and shut itself down.
I've heard of overheating problems with Al iMacs, so I decided to schedule it to automatically shut down every weekday morning at 7:15, just after I go to work. This morning was the first weekday morning since I set it. When I got home at 5, it was sleeping, but not shut down. I checked to verify the settings, and it is properly set. The system clock is also correct. Is there some trick to get it to shut down?

I have the same problem. But if i change international settings from swedish to english the scheduled shut down settings i made in swedish shows as scheduled sleep in english. So if i turn to scheduled sleep the computer shut down instead. Weird!!! Maybe you can try to choose sleep instead of shut down or try to do the setting in the root account.

Auto save when scheduling shut down?

Is there a script or application that would allow me to have every program save and close before the system automatically shuts down when scheduled in energy saver?
I work for at a video production studio and we often have to leave the computers on over night to transcode, render or export.
Is it possible for running programs such as final cut pro, compressor, and dvd studio pro to auto save when closing during scheduled automatic shut down?

Sounds to me like scheduled shut down in your environment is not ideal. Why not just let the machines remain on? They'll go to sleep normally (unless you've disabled that) once all activity is done, and sleep mode uses very little power.

Schedule shut down is at radom time

Hi
I have set-up a schedule to shut down at 3am. it works some times, but most of the time it doesn't as I wake-up and the PB is on, and them like today at 10am or so, the schedule shut down quicks in prompting me?
My tab isn't locked, as mentioned in other post.
Not a big issue, but that means something is wrong somewhere, and my PB lack some sleep as well.
Thank you in advance

lune:
Lots of questions. I'll try to get to at least a few now.
I am doing the repairs on HD volume rather than the 74.4gb Hitachy, never been sure which one to choose)
When working in Disk Utility, both for Repair Disk and Repair Disk Permissions, you want to select the Manufacturer's ID, instead of the volumne name. You want to work with the volume on the HDD, as the directory is built into the HDD.
Would you say that I should consider the idefrag solution to keep things running smoothly?
Here's what Apple says About disk optimization with Mac OS X. That said, I do a complete disk optimization at least monthly, sometimes twice. I use Tech Tool Pro. It's one of the best all round utilities out there. DriveGenius is supposed to be pretty good, too, but I am not personally familiar with it. It is the one utility that I have heard reported to do repartitioning on the fly successfully.
I'll return to you other questions later.
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cornelius

Scheduling shut down & start up

I have a Mac Mini G4 that will no longer shut down or start up as scheduled. Any ideas about why this feature would stop working? Thanks!

chizzle03-
Greetings and welcome to the Apple boards.
Generally an external device will cause sleeping problems. Have you added an eyeTV or any device like that?
The first step would be to disconnect all peripherals except the keyboard and monitor and see if the problem goes away. If so, add devices back one at a time until you find the offending unit.
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Scheduled shut down, start ups Not Working

Hi,
I am a technician in charge of 9 iMacs (Core 2 Duo's) and 13 eMacs (not sure what kind), in a media suite in a college, that are all running 10.4.11. I have tried to set them all up so that they start up at 9am each weekday and shut down at 6pm, but only a few of them will do this.
So instead of sitting at my desk and hearing 22 simultaneous Bonggggsssss each morning, I hear about 6, and then the rest are just sleeping after the evening before. They are all set to receive their time from Apple (Europe). (They are also connected to a college network that allows for network accounts, and I can access each one using Apple Remote Desktop, the latest version). At the time of the proposed shut down, they are all at the login screen, with no running apps, or at least none that i'm aware of.
How can I fix this? I can't find anyone with the same problem.

Thanks Hans,
It is not an issue with sleeping the machines, but actual start ups and shut downs.
I will try setting the preferences so that the machines never sleep, to see if there is a conflict between the sleep times and the shut down. I would rather that the machines were actually turned off overnight rather than sleeping.
The article suggests a lot of things that contribute to the machines not sleeping, and the one that jumped out at me was if the machines are connected to a network - which they all are - but that wouldn't explain why some of them shut down as expected, and some of them don't.
Unfortunately, we have students using the machines all day so there isn't a chance to check the procedures!

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Hi, a few months ago, i went to the power settings and checked the option for shut-down at midnight and power on at 6am... Then just last week, i unchecked the option for the automatic on/off... But since then, my iBook still does its' routine... BTW, i made sure that the option is unchecked every night as i leave my com on throughout the night ti download stuff, but it still does what i programmed it to do months ago, even after i readjusted the settings...
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PS: Would resetting the PMU help? I have not tried that out yet...

Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X 10.5 Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
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Scheduling shut down

i want to schedule shutdown of database.
i have tried 2 methods-
1st-->
shut.bat
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sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
@"C:\Documents and Settings\hp\Desktop\shut.sql"
shut.sql-->
shutdown immediate;
2nd -->
shut2.bat
set oracle_sid=anmreco
sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
shutdown immediate;
however both the methods only gets me connected to oracle as sysdba. The shutdown immediate does not seem to execute.
Whats the problem?
Thanks
Anmol

Every successful and most unsuccessful shutdown will have a record in alert.log of the instance. Make sure no ORA- error in this file.
If the purpose of this restart is to make backup, I success you use RMAN instead. Put your database in archivelog mode and do hot backup, get your database better protected from data loss.
I know you could use Computer Management to connect to other server and start/stop service if you have permission. Not sure if you could do that in command line.
One way to do that is turn on password authenticate on remote server and use sqlplus
configure Tnsnames for remote DB.
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IMac won't turn on after scheduled shut down

Hi, hope someone here can help me!
I have a 20" 2006 iMac. While it was still under warranty, it repeatedly froze, and eventually when I turned it on the screen remained blank although I could hear that the hard drive was at least trying to get started. I got it repaired (new logic board, new screen), but now I am having some of the other difficulties mentioned here, where the screen freezes when using graphic intense software, including 3D games. Sometimes, it works fine for hours, others less than 2 minutes. I used to keep it on all the time, with energy saver set to go to sleep when possible. I've found, though that the graphics problems are less likely to happen if it has been off at least overnight, so I set up the schedule for it to turn itself off in the small hours. The problem is, when I go to turn it back on, it won't come on unless i pull out the power cable from the back of it and put it back in again. Any ideas what's causing this? And any ideas on what I can do to fix it?
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Extremely frustrated since it was brand spankin new!!

Firefox 19 will not allow computer to shut down

firefox 19 will not allow computer to shut down
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2008R2 Virtual machine shutting down unexpected on Hyper-V 2012 server

I have a problem where one of my 2008 R2 virtual servers are shutting down unexpected every Friday at more or less the same time. This has happen 2 Fridays in a row now and the time is 13:01:30 and 13:01:10. I did some investigation on the event viewer and
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Thanks for the reply!
Yes, all disk space is on the host, I have 2 hosts running Hyper V each with their own set of virtual servers, I am planning a cluster in the near future, but for now all disk space for all virtual server are on the host, there is more than enough disk space
left on all drives. Please below output from command, I only posted first few lines as there are to many lines.
Shadow Copy ID: {17e38390-dcb5-4ac4-9f43-62bc1a4c1dc2}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy709
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {f938ba80-7641-457c-8297-863bf8419aba}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 29/08/2014 07:00:12
Shadow Copy ID: {44657104-c8bc-44ee-b8cb-b0469601531d}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy713
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {e9cb6a0c-973d-4ff5-9877-0c81ab74dc80}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 29/08/2014 12:00:16
Shadow Copy ID: {4f824796-3dd1-498a-947c-5747e25d7ebc}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy716
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {2f02b69b-1244-40bc-984b-f4488887d10d}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 01/09/2014 07:00:01
Shadow Copy ID: {8d039039-51ac-4cbf-be0a-4defb989a22c}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy843
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {55b3d33e-a347-46cd-bf39-686acd7329ab}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 01/09/2014 12:00:01
Shadow Copy ID: {1239354e-3037-42b1-802c-27e1187c13b1}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy846
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {813607c5-5d31-41b3-8b1c-5f89ef2e5b0b}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 02/09/2014 07:00:12
Shadow Copy ID: {0e1350a7-3fec-48fb-8fcb-d035dbfb001c}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy850
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {ec206fef-a325-41c9-90b5-c4c6de3f94a8}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 02/09/2014 12:00:19
Shadow Copy ID: {aea06cae-f88f-4941-bc33-4ca62bf3380f}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy853
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
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Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 03/09/2014 07:00:01
Shadow Copy ID: {8b14fdd6-2f2b-4cad-93b8-391c1d913cb3}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy854
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {52277c29-ce5c-4c59-bfd4-9174b4870a02}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 03/09/2014 12:00:17
Shadow Copy ID: {199611ca-ec3f-435f-828e-bc1748b02bf9}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy858
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
Contents of shadow copy set ID: {1dfaeb8b-3726-4f08-8582-5fec43bd6b37}
Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 04/09/2014 07:00:01
Shadow Copy ID: {d6ae9b1a-41ef-4db5-9c44-581ee7d7192d}
Original Volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{f7e4a444-a922-11e2-93e8-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy859
Originating Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Service Machine: ELAPNS02.AMentis.local
Provider: 'Microsoft Software Shadow Copy provider 1.0'
Type: ClientAccessible
Attributes: Persistent, Client-accessible, No auto release, No writers,
Differential
Juan Krynie

Schedule not shutting down

I was trying to set schedule to shut down my Mac Pro after a long backup. I can set it, but when I come in in the morning the machine is still on. When I wake the system up, there is a brief view of the finder's copy window which then clears. All the backups take only 2-3 hours, but no shutdown.
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it won't work if the machine is asleep - stop it from sleeping and it works

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Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
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Dear All,
i would like to ask if there is any way to schedule time on CUCM 7 allowing us to shut down cisco ip phones during week ends, and which cisco ip phone models that support this feature.
regards

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I'm no phone guy but if you want to POWER OFF the phones outside office hours there are serious implications to consider.
If your phones have PCs connected to them, there's a large chance that when the phones go off, the PCs will not be able to reach the network (because VoIP phones do not have bypass functionality).
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