I don't know if "nobody can help" is true or not. You have a couple of questionable issues.
I only meant that nobody on the forum on my first thread on this topic took a stab at my question. I think becasue I've done everytlhign that most people would recomend, and I've gotten nowhere. And many people in the other similar threads were unable to solve virtually the same problem. So I can't say that NOBODY can answer my question. I just mean nobody has tried to answer my question, and maybe apple might be interested in the subject.
First, one of these machines is used. That's a total non-starter. You are lucky the thing boots at all after everything that has been poured into that keyboard. Seriously. These are Macs. People don't sell them unless they need to get rid of them.
Great Question. In this case, this mac came from a close freind professional video editor who needed a retina. It had been turned on 25 times before I bought it from him. Mint condition. No spills.
Second, you claim it is a fresh install but that you transferred all of your information to it. Curiously, both exhibit the same problem. This leads me to suspect that your install isn't so fresh after all.
Its definitely possible. I cloned each hard drive on each computer to a backup drive, and I also made time machine backups. I put those aside and have not used them since. then I performed a clean re-install by doing the following steps recomended by apple:
- Choose Apple menu > Restart. Once your Mac restarts (and the gray screen appears), hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys.
- If you’re not connected to the Internet, choose a network from the Wi-Fi menu (in the top-right corner of the screen).
- Select Disk Utility, and then click Continue.
- Select your startup disk from the list on the left, and then click the Erase tab.
- From the Format pop-up menu, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled), enter a name for your disk, and then click Erase.
- After the disk is erased, choose Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility.
- Select Reinstall OS X, click Continue, and then follow the instructions.
I chose not to migrate any information onto the new build, just to make sure the sleep problem was solved first. But it wasnt' solved. Next i did this on the second computer and the same problem persisted.
So I'm lost.
But you may have a point about the fullness of the re-install, maybe there is a deeper kind of re-install I can do. One very suspicious thing I noticed is that the old owner's name showed up in the terminal when I was trying another technique to solve this problem where you go into terminal and change the hybernate mode from 3 to 0 or some other number. (I did this only today, I've not messed around in the terminal prior to my problems). In fact this did imporove my problem but I noticed that it asked for a password for the user, under the old user's name - sean. So at least one of the computers has retained some old info. BTW, after setting the hybernate mode to 0 when i close the lid, the computer
So I'd love to do the full labotomy, but I'm not sure how. I have no disc for OS 10.8 and I've followed apple's instructions for an erase and re-install on two systems with the same problem.
As of now, the sleep mode has gotten better my altering the hibernate mode to 0. Now it wakes up, and occasionally ejects the drives and goes to sleep then wakes up again afer I re-open the lid, but it seems most of the time do what it's suppsoed to do. So thats a big improvement!
