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How to fix Mac OSX mountain lion battery life with 3 simple terminal commands!

Hello, the other day i bought a macbook pro retina display, and it came pre loaded with mountain lion. I immediately started doing a test on a 3d game, and saw how short the battery life was. I was extremely disapointed by this, and needed a solution. I finally found it. This works on any mac (laptop or desktop) running mac OSX 10.8+ (any version of mountain lion). Make sure to save a copy of your wallpaper because this will reset your wallpaper to default. This will not remove any of your files/folders, except for your desktop wallpaper.


Open up Terminal on your Mac and type “ cd ~/Library/Preferences/” (without the quote marks) and hit return.

Now enter “rm com.apple.desktop.plist” and hit enter again.

Finally, enter “killall Dock”

Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/178092/this-simple-terminal-command-could-more-than-dou ble-your-retina-macbook-pros-battery-life/#0OSsM0M8cWQpzvwZ.99


This should add a good few hours extra to your battery life. Enjoy!

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), Works with any mac with OSX 10.8+

Posted on Sep 4, 2012 5:27 PM

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Sep 22, 2012 11:01 AM in response to SixtiethDegree

I have done the 3 terminal commands. It changed the desktop to a default wall photo. The battery calculator said 3:45 hr remaining and start increasing over time after a few mimute wrighting this message it is now 6:13 hr remaining at 98% battery level. It looked better if it will not losing too fast. Hope for the best. Thank you. It is now 6:43 hrs.at 97% level.

Sep 22, 2012 7:38 PM in response to taweeskk

It still looked pretty the same for a fast drain!! I think I'll give up doing this stupid thing again. Completely waste of time. I spent more than half of my working life config the Windows based machine those days. I won't get suck into this again. If it drain, let it run dry. I will carry all the AC adaptro wherever I go again. Not to bother this again. The Apple personel may be too busy releasing things to the market and make money. I'm just a poor and stupid user. That's all. I'll continue doing my money making job again after spent several long night working with this. ****!!

Dec 26, 2012 2:56 PM in response to SixtiethDegree

Hi,


I tried working on the fix above on my recently bought Macbook Pro. Same experience and problem with Sixtieth Degree and it worked! The remaining time of the battery, increases.


But the issue is, after I fully charged again my laptop on the next day, it goes back again to 3 hours remaining time.


Should I always use the fix to increase the battery time of my laptop?


Thnaks!

How to fix Mac OSX mountain lion battery life with 3 simple terminal commands!

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