Start updates after hours then shut down
Is their a way to have updates start at a certain time and when finished shut down the computer.
Reason: I teach at a college and we would like the Lab computers to due updates after the Lab is closed and then shut down on their own.
Not sure if this works but you could set a schedule to start and shutdown in Preferences>Energy Saver>Schedule. Then in the Preferences, choose Software Updates and choose to check daily. Not sure if it will check for them in the allotted time or not but it's worth a shot. Also, if you need to validate the updates with an admin password, then it may not work. Being that you're at a college, I would assume you'd need the admin password. In that case, you'd probably need to either use Automator (included in the OS) or create an AppleScript (http://www.apple.com/applescript/)to do this for you.
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Hi ...
I'm hoping that someone out there can help me ...
I purchased an Apple 24" iMac about 3 years ago ...
It was pretty much working perfectly until 2 days ago ...
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Try target disk mode see if your mac shut down from this way , to do that
hold hon at start up "T" on key board just after startup sound until screen show a firewire logo as screen saver
and wait ..
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Try start in single user mode , use COMANDE - S at start up
Try start in safe mode , use SHIFT key at start up
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be sure to have perform SMC and PRAM reset at least 3 times each
HTH
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