Force your Macintosh to sleep through Energy Saver using PleaseSleep
By Jaems • Jan 18th, 2009 • Category: TutorialsNote: This program may cause your computer to sleep during use: most notably during printing. For best results, disable it when not in use.
A common problem with the Energy Saver preference pane in 10.5 is the failure of the Sleep option. You can set the sliders to an amount of time after which inactivity will cause the computer to go to CPU sleep. The problem is that this function simply doesn’t work for lots of users. Either the computer will go to hard disk sleep or, worse yet, just to screen sleep, in which case your computer will hum along all night after it’s finished downloading, backing up, or whatever else.
PleaseSleep is a simple application that resides in your menu bar, and which forces Energy Saver to put the computer into CPU sleep.
Menu Item
The best part of this tidy application is its simplicity. It does one thing and one thing only: it does what your Energy Saver isn’t doing. In addition, you can access Energy Saver directly from PleaseSleep’s panel, so that the two panes work well together. The idea being that you set your sleep timer through your Energy Saver, and PleaseSleep will run in the background to make it work correctly. You can check to make sure it works by launching PleaseSleep and then setting your sleep time to 1 minute. You should be able to hear your hard disk shutting down, and when you touch the mouse again, it should take longer to start, as a system would do after CPU sleep.
Application window - Use "Launch at Startup" for best results
Download PleaseSleep.app here.
There have been numerous explanations as to why systems won’t properly sleep, the most common being certain applications, processes, external disks, or even webpages continue to run and prevent proper sleep. I have tried many of the solutions offered but this is the only one that works so far.
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