Adjusting Hard Disk Sleep?

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Adjusting Hard Disk Sleep?

Is there a way to adjust the default time when I've enabled "put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible"? The default time seems very short to me, and would love to extend it to a half hour or so before they go to sleep.

Thanks!

15" 2.66 GHz MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Posted on Sep 7, 2009 8:13 PM

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Answer 1

V.K.

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Sep 7, 2009 8:31 PM in response to Robert Sink

yes, it's possible. install TextWrangler and open the file /library/preferences/systemconfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist in textWrangler. change the entry for Disk Sleep Timer from 10 to 30 and save. you'll have to provide your admin password. then restart and the disk sleep timer will be set to 30 minutes. you can adjust that number to whatever you want of course.

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Robert Sink Author

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Sep 8, 2009 4:13 AM in response to V.K.

Thank you V.K.!

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