Having to wait for OS Catalina, and other sleeping programs to reboot everytime I Ieave the computer for more than 5 minutes

If my computer goes to sleep, I have to reload all programs that had been open, every time I'm gone for more than 5 minutes. Updated to OS Catalina 10.15.7. Anyone else having this trouble?

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 5:40 PM

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rkaufmann87

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Oct 26, 2020 5:57 PM in response to morge51

Most experienced users never put their Mac to sleep, what we do is to put the display for sleep (System Preferences - Energy Saver - Set Sleep to NONE - then set Turn display off after X minutes.

Oct 27, 2020 5:04 AM in response to morge51

Use the "Lock Screen" option instead for short periods away

from your Mac. Everything is still open and when you sign

back in, it is like you never left.

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Having to wait for OS Catalina, and other sleeping programs to reboot everytime I Ieave the computer for more than 5 minutes