To shut down, or not to shut down?

I read somewhere that it is better not to shut down your MBP at night because it is programmed to do maintenance from 3AM-5AM. Is this true?

lissermarie,
There are also other benefits to not shutting down. Being able to build and keep a larger cache of "Inactive" RAM is one of them, leading to much faster application launch times in many cases.
More importantly, perhaps, is that there is no compelling reason to shut down, over simply putting your computer to sleep. We have had several portable Macs, and none of them have ever actually been shut down (just restarted, mostly when running updates, etc.). In one case that I know of, we had an iBook that had an "uptime" of over 160 days. That's almost 6 months with no shutdown or restart!!!!
Scott

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Hi
Got an early 2008 MAC Pro...is it best to leave the computer on all week, shutting down maybe over the weekend, or is there harm in shutting everything down every night...got about 2 TB worth of hard drives in it. Does it really matter?
Thanks
K

I leave mine on all the time and put it to sleep when I'm not using it. I've got four 750 GB Seagate drives in my April 2007 Mac Pro. Lots of people have their opinion about thermal stresses on solder joints and mechanical stress on spinning up hard drives but I feel the point is moot. Most of the components become outdated and are replaced long before failure due to these effects.
My biggest concern is that it generates enough heat to warm up my den in the winter even when I'm doing light web surfing. Although it doesn't cost much to leave the computer on all the time in the summer the heat it generates has to be removed by my air conditioning and since I live in the desert that can cost a bit more to leave it idling which is why I put it to sleep when I'm not using it.

To Shut Down or not to Shut Down that is the question

I am running Panther on 5 and Tiger on 2 machines. Should I tell the users of these computers to shut down at night or just leave the machines on so that they can run the scripts at night (swap files)? I know that shuting down starting up is not good for the hardware but I also know that a good restart can fix problems (Photoshop CS2 wasn't working right, repaired permissions restared and everything is fine again). So my thinking is that a restart is good every once and a while. Any other thoughts?
Thanks

Compromise -- probably the best is to let them sleep at night. And occasionally run not just the Apple maintenance scripts, but all the other kinds of clean-up via OnyX or MacJanitor, etc. If usage is light, perhaps once a month; if there's lots going on, more often won't hurt.
If you're not familiar with this sort of stuff, start here (page 1 of 4):
http://www.macworld.com/2005/01/features/preventmacdisasters/index.php

2 run down or not 2 run down

I generally have about 20% battery left in the morning after a days use, is it best to let the phone run down completely and then charge, or just charge it from 20%
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Try to generate cluster log using closter log /g /copy:<path to a local folder>. You might need to bump up log verbosity using cluster /prop ClusterLogLevel=5 (you can check current level using cluster /prop).
You also can look at the SCM diagnostic channel in the event viewer. Start eventvwr. Wait for the clock icon on the Application and Services Logs to go away. Once the clock icon is gone select this entry and in the menu check Show Analytic and Debug Logs.
Now expand to the SCM provider located at
Application and Services Logs\Microsoft\Service Control Manager Performance Diagnostic Provider\Diagnostic.
or Microsoft-Windows-Services/Diagnostic
Enable the log, run repro, disable the log. After that you should see events from the SCM showing you your service state transitions.
The terminate parameters do not seems to be configurable. I can think of two ways fixing the issue
- Writing your own cluster resource DLL where you can implement your own policies. THis would be a place to start http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2010/08/24/10053405.aspx.
- This option is assuming you cannot change the source code of the service to kill orphaned child processes on startup so you have to clenup using some other means. Create another service and make your service dependent on this new service. This new serice
must be much faster in responding do the SCM commands. On start of this service you using PSAPI enumirate all processes running on the machine and kill the orphaned child processes. You probably should be able to acheve something similar using GenScript resource
+ VB script that does the cleanup.
Regards, Vladimir Petter, Microsoft Corporation

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Replacing or even suggesting replacing hardware without doing basic troubleshooting first is not very smart.
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
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Edit out excessive repeats and personal information, if any.
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Do the same with kernel.log.
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Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the most recent one, if any. For privacy’s sake, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please do not post shutdownStall or hang logs – they're very long and not helpful.

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babowa, it seems like it is using Fuse & NTFS, so I don't think it's the classic WD + 10.9 mess, but extra WD tools & drivers can still break things MtTran.
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When the disk is readable copy the data to another disk. You could probably do this from a Linux distro or Windows if OS X won't do it.
If you insist on only using the trial versions you will need to reinstall Mac OS, copy data off this disk & reformat it.
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safari does not allow shut down why.? I get a tab that says to quite safari and i do, but it still does not allow it to shut down why.?

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This question really belongs in one of the iPhone forums. https://discussions.apple.com/community/iphone
But... my iPhone acted like this once after I dropped it.
First, make sure the phone has some charge in the battery. Plug it in and let it charge for a while if you haven't already done that.
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If that doesn't work you might see if anything else here: http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/phone/#section_1 is useful. If you still have no luck try asking your question again in an iPhone forum above... or visit your local Apple Store.
Steve

Firefox does not automatically shut down when I turn off my computer. It used to before this latest Firefox upgrade.

In the past, when I shut my computer down, Firefox would automatically close. Now, Firefox has problems closing at shut down. This happens every time I shut off my computer. I'm using Windows XP pro on a desktop.

Yep, that did it. Thanks for that tip.
However, the other issue is that whenever I start Firefox, the tabs I had open when I shut down do not automatically load. Again, this did not happen before the latest Firefox upgrade.
I have to say that I like the idea of AVG watching my back against malicious links, and not that it's disabled I'm concerned about viruses. Or should I be?
Thanks again for the help.

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