Sleep Mode
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- Category: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Published on Thursday, 30 June 2011 07:28
- Written by angusf
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My MacBook Pro has got more and more unrealiable about sleeping since I :-
- Dropped it
- Replaced the internal drive with a bigger hybrid drive with 8GB SSD and 500GB
- Replaced the battery with a non Apple 'compatible' one
- Updated to 10.6.8
Looking round the net I found that there are a few choices about sleep mode, although they aren't settings easily available from System Preferences.
Recent Intel MacBooks and MacBook Pro's leave some power running while sleeping (the system light 'breathes' ad a visual indicator) the memory is powered on and also written to disk before sleeping. If there is a power loss, the system is supposed to enter hibernation mode automatically.
What I am finding is that default sleep mode isn't working. My mac wont recover from sleep anymore. I suspect the third party battery, but the old battery was unusable. I am trying hibernate always - I will report back if this works for me after a week or so.
I found that you could view and change the sleep setting using Terminal :-
Last login: Wed Jun 29 23:48:45 on ttys000
$ pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
hibernatemode 0
$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1
Password:
$ pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
hibernatemode 1
$
Hibernatemode
0 - Old Sleep mode.
1 - Hibernate with full shut down and slower startup white screen with progress bar on wake up (reports as mode 5, if secure virtual memory enabled)
3 - Default Sleep mode Sleep until critical power loss then hibernate. (reports as mode 7, if secure virtual memory enabled)
Updating to Mac OS X 10.6.8 - checklist
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- Category: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Published on Saturday, 25 June 2011 08:10
- Written by angusf
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A last 10.6 update? Work remembering that 'point' updates of Mac OS X can be difficult.
Whether you run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server, or Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Client heres what I would recommend: -
- Run a Time Machine Backup
- Run 'Software Update and update everything *except Mac OS X 10.6.8*
- Run Disk Utility and Repair Permissions
- Take a second image backup to an external disk using Carbon Copy Cloner, test that it boots.
- Download the 'combo' update (do not run the update from 'Software Update')
- Apply the update
- Run Disk Utility and Repair Permissions
- Restart to 10.6.8
- Put the image backup in an antistatic bag labelled 'perfect 10.6.7 - just in case' and keep it safe
British English in Apple iWork - Pages 09 for Mac OS X
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- Category: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Published on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 07:43
- Written by angusf
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Pages has been quietly driving me nuts for months now. I am trying to use it instead of Microsoft Word but have used Word since it first came out on the Mac so this is a hard unlearning exercise.
The main issue for me has been the stubborn refusal of Pages 09 to recognise British English spelling, and stick to it throughout the document.
Pages has a property inspector, which has a Text Tab, once you find this you can observe the problem. One of the elements is 'Language' For me, even when I modified it the next time I added a new styled paragraph it would be back to 'English' and not 'British English'. No matter what I did this would happen. And the templates all defaulted to 'English' making them borderline unusable for me.
I scratched my head about this for a long time. I determined it must be a system setting but could not find anyplace to set it. Looking in the Language and Text Preference Pane provided no immediate clues. English was at the top of the language list, British English was set in the Text tab, UK formats were set in the formats tab.
Eventually I found the answer. It should have been obvious I suppose, but it was not to me, so I hope this is helpful to you.
You have to click 'Edit List' and enable 'British English' to make it show up on the Language list. Quit and restart Pages 09 and hey presto, everything is in British English. Simple. No not really. It took me a long time to figure this out and I have been using Mac OS X since 2000.
