Hibernate For Mac




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Hibernate macroI have been searching for ways for Mac OS X to behave the same as Windows when it comes down to hibernation. Mac OS X has this concept of 'Sleep' and 'Shutdown'.

By default, 'Sleep' will turn the computer off but my MacBook Pro will still have the white light, switching between dim and bright. In this case, you cannot totally switch off your MacBook Pro as you would like to do in Windows.
However, if you 'Sleep' using your laptop battery, once the battery runs out, MacBook Pro is smart enough to save all contents in your RAM to hard disk. This is called a 'Safe Sleep'.



Wish

Wouldn't it be nice if we could choose to hibernate whenever we want so that if we are not using the laptop for a few hours, instead of putting the laptop to 'Sleep', which will still drain the battery, we can 'hibernate' the laptop and restore our applications (as it is) when we start it up again.

Solution

Macworld has an article that contains comprehensive information about this. Here is the summary.
  • First find out what is the current setting of your sleep mode, using:

This will tell you which sleep mode you are currently on. The following displays different sleep mode:

0 - Legacy sleep mode. It will save everything to RAM upon sleeping but does not support 'Safe Sleep'. Very fast sleep.
1 - Legacy 'Safe Sleep'. This is the 'Safe Sleep'. Everything your laptop goes into sleep, it will save everything to harddisk. Slow on Sleep and Startup.
3 - Default. As described above, when sleeping, contents are saved to RAM. When battery runs out, hibernate occurs.
5 - Behaves as 1 but applicable only for modern Mac that uses 'Secure virtual memory'.
7 - Behaves as 3 but applicable only for modern Mac that uses 'Secure virtual memory'.

  • For me, I am using MacBook Pro and I know that I am using 'Secure virtual memory' (System Preferences -> Security), so 5 is my choice. I want my Mac to hibernate everything I sleep.
  • Make an alias in your .bash_profile under your home directory:
alias hibernateoff='sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0'
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  • 'Source' your bash_profile file and your are done!
  • Whenever you want to hibernate your computer, if it is not set already, just go to terminal and execute hibernateon. If you want to turn it off, hibernateoff and you are all set.

It was known that if you want to avoid hassle setting up in command line, there is a dashboard widget, called Deep Sleep that will do the trick do. Somehow it does not work on my MacBook Pro.

You have probably asked yourself, ”Do downloads continue in sleep mode?” The default setting for laptops is to go to sleep mode when the lid is closed; which is in some cases quite annoying.

Sometimes you may want to keep your chrome or torrent downloads active even when the lid is closed. Luckily for a windows laptop, with come an array of power options to keep your downloads on without having to connect an external monitor and mouse; while for a Mac, you will need a third party app.

Will Downloads Continue In Sleep Mode?

Short Answer: No, because, while your system is entered into sleep, all the devices lost its power except memory and all your data are stored in memory alone.

However, there’s a way around it. You will need to setup your laptop in a way the downloads will be active even when your lid is closed.

How do you keep downloads active when a laptop lid is closed

In this post, I am going to bring to you the various ways you can keep downloads active despite the fact that you will have closed the laptop lid.

For Windows laptops, we shall discuss first;

How To Keep Downloads On Sleep Mode In Windows 10

For windows 10, the process of changing power options so that the downloads are kept active when the lid is closed are straight forward. Here is how:

Step 1: Go to the left most corner of your Windows 10 laptop. Click the Windows icon. A magnifier icon will appear and in it, type the keyword “closing”.

Step 2: In the results window, “change what closing the lid does” will appear.

When clicked, it takes straight to the relevant settings you are supposed to change in the control panel.

That’s – Control PanelHardware and SoundPower OptionsSystem Settings.

Step 3: From the settings window, move down to the third option which says “When I close the lid”.

From its drop down menu, choose “Do nothing” for when the laptop is “on battery” and when “plugged in

Click “Save settings

Once the lid is closed, your laptop will continue to function normally. Active downloads will continue so that you won’t have to pause them when closing the lid.

How to Do It In Windows 7

For windows 7 you can tweak power settings by the following steps:

Step 1: From the Windows button menu, go to the control panel and double click power options.

Step 2: Go to what closing the lid does.

Step 3: From here you will see “when I close the lid”.

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Click “Save changes”.

From the options toggle, choose “Do nothing”.

Close the Window.

By now your laptop will not shut down when you close the lid and therefore you will be able to keep downloads going on.

What if you want to shut down automatically after downloads?

Assuming you are asleep and you don’t want your laptop to keep running all night even when the download is finished.

You have got to find a way to keep it off and here is how:

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Make use of the Firefox and chrome AutoShutdown extension for those using the firefox browser.

With this extension comes, comes a custom OS command that will command your laptop to shutdown when all download tasks are done.

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This helps to avoid heating problems for your laptop since the lid is close to the rest of the body and also controls and saves on your electricity bill.

How to keep downloads active when the lid is closed in MAC.

No inbuilt power settings to tweak. No command to run. Fine, there are two ways you can keep downloads active when you have closed the lid of your Mac. The good thing they don’t require you to be a geek.

Here they are:

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Use a third-party application

A third party application “Insomnia X” will keep your mac laptop active when the lid is closed. The good thing about the app is that it is free.

Step 1: Make sure you have an unarchiver tool installed on your Mac.

Step 2: Download Insomnia X and use the un acrchiver tool to decompress the downloaded file.

Step 3: To set it rolling, install the “Insomnia X” app by dragging it the applications folder.

When you run the application, it will appear in the menu bar.

Step 4: When you bring the cursor to the insomnia X app in the horizontal menu bar, it will bring a drop down list of options.

Check the “Disable lid Sleep”.

To beef things a little better, you can check the “ Disable idle sleep” option. Your mac will keep active, downloads will go on even when the lid is closed.

Step 5: If you can estimate the time your download will take (which is difficult due to many factors involved), you can set the time you want this app to keep the laptop active and then it will shutdown automatically thereafter.

This Insomniac X app also gives more control over shutdown in macs.

From its preferences menu, you can choose “Disable lid sleep when on AC” to prevent the laptop from going to sleep mode when it is still plugged into the power mains.

You can also protect your Mac from the dreading effects of overheating by choosing “CPU Safety” option.

Please remember that you will have to change settings in Insomnia X whenever you will need to keep downloads active, so once you restart, these settings will not hold.

Keep downloads active by connecting an external monitor on Mac.

To use this kind of method, you will need the following:

1. Plug in the power chord

2. Connect external display

3. External keyboard through USB or bluetooth

4. External mouse through usb or bluetooth

Graced with all these devices, connect each of them to your Mac laptop and ensure they are properly functioning.

Once you close the lid when downloads are active, a Mac laptop will turn to the external display leaving all computing tasks active including the download jobs.

To revert back to normal display usage; open its lid and it will return back to its monitor for Mac Os 10.7 or later.

For earlier versions, you just need to unplug the display, close and open it. You will be good to go.

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Conclusion

The tips given above should help you keep your big download jobs active even in your absence or when your lid is closed.

While you would want to keep downloads active when you are away, please ensure to take control of heating. It is very saddening to return or wake up when you have actually fried your laptop simply because you wanted to keep your downloads active.

Enjoy your downloads!

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