Put imac to Sleep or Shut Down

Several schools of thought:

1) never shut it off (but it's OK to let the display sleep, i.e., go to screen saver, but never let the computer or the hard drives go to sleep)
2) turn it on and off as needed
3) put the computer to sleep (including display and hard drives) when not being used

Considerations:

1) "always on" --- if having immediate access to your computer to get down creative ideas ASAP is important then there should be no other factors to consider.

2) "on/off as needed" -- the exact opposite of #1

3) "sleep" -- a happy medium? It depends... Waking a computer from sleep still means that you have to wait a while before you can start to record. You should experiment with your system to see how successfully it wakes up after being put to sleep before committing to this practice. Sometimes a system won't wake up from sleep and you'll have to re-boot anyway.

Just make sure you do a Save before entering sleep mode, so that IF anyhting goes wrong with waking up and you need to force quit or hard restart, your project at least stays intact.
But in general I would say: "don't." Just for the display it is allright though.

Any thoughts on putting it to sleep

with logic still open?

What Erik said: "Save before entering sleep mode, so that IF anyhting goes wrong with waking up and you need to force quit or hard restart, your project at least stays intact."

Message was edited by: iSchwartz