Tell my Mac to sleep?

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Tell my Mac to sleep?

I'm a little new to Automator. I'd like my Mac to go to Sleep or shut down after the actions are complete. I can't seem to find these functions in the library list. Can it be done?

Bill

PMG5 (late 2005),, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 16gb RAM

Posted on Aug 31, 2010 11:21 PM

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Niel

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Aug 31, 2010 11:23 PM in response to Grace's Babe

Use an AppleScript action to send the command to System Events.

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Grace's Babe Author

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Aug 31, 2010 11:36 PM in response to Grace's Babe

Uh....

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Sep 1, 2010 1:15 AM in response to Grace's Babe

In the list of Automator actions, drag 'Run Applescipt' to your workflow. Paste this in to replace the default text:

tell application "Finder"
sleep
end tell

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Grace's Babe Author

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Sep 1, 2010 5:24 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Ah!!! That did the trick. Thanks!

Bill

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sheffi

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Feb 15, 2015 1:26 AM in response to Grace's Babe

Putting your Mac to sleep,waking up ,Shutting down ,restarting Automatically ! ,is done in ENERGY SAVER ,however most users do not know that there programs made by Apple that are automatically working in the background and cleaning up after the user this can take time ,even a few days and your computer will overide this. Even when your see power is off the computer is working unless you take out the clock battery,power battery and memory then reset the S or P M U your Mac is dead the memory and Clock Battery keeps the events.

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