How can I fix my password at wake up from my MacBookPro8,1?

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How can I fix my password at wake up from my MacBookPro8,1?

This has been happening since I upgraded my Mac from Lion, but I never bothered fixing it. After a lot of months I tried to find an answer with no luck.

After my MacBookPro wakes up from sleep, it asks for the user password, as configured.

If I am quick, which is normally the case, when I start typing and the computer recognizes the first letters of the password.

But after some miliseconds, it stops aquiring the keyboard. I have to reselect the prompt and retype it.

Really annoying.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to solve this issue?

Thanks,

pedlem

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), Wake up from sleep

Posted on Aug 18, 2013 3:18 AM

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LowLuster

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Aug 18, 2013 3:24 AM in response to pedlem

Yes this happens to me also on a late 2011 model that came with Lion and now I have Mountain Lion. This is fairly normal. Just give it a second or 2 after the login screen appears or after you start typing in your password. If I hit the first letter of my password then wait ---- then continue all letter are seen. Also if I go ahead with the typing but wait to hit the enter key Sometimes, not always, the password box is propagated correctly and then the enter key takes me to my desktop.

To my knowledge there is no setting to correct this. The system just takes some time for it to Wake up fully.

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Aug 18, 2013 4:29 AM in response to LowLuster

Thank you for your time.

I sincerely think this is an annoying bug and I would like to have it corrected.

After all, we all paid a generous amount for the hardware and the software.

If someone else has a solution, I will be very pleased.

Thanks,

pedlem

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LowLuster

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Aug 18, 2013 1:12 PM in response to pedlem

Not a bug. The system takes a few seconds to come back to life from sleep mode. Just like you in the morning when you wake up. You don't just jump out of bed READY to GO.

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pedlem Author

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Aug 18, 2013 2:55 PM in response to LowLuster

If the interface does not behave as expected, to me, and I do think to Steve Jobs, it is a bug.

But I do respect your opinion. It is probably similar to Steve Balmer and other Windows users. =)

If someone else can shed some light into the discussion, I will be thankful.

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LowLuster

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Aug 18, 2013 4:04 PM in response to pedlem

Ok whatever.

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Oct 11, 2013 6:14 PM in response to pedlem

For reference, I have a MB Pro 13-inch that originally had 10.6.8 on it (for the first year and a half of its life). When I woke it from sleep, I could immediately type the password as soon as I saw the password prompt. It worked every time.

I upgraded to 10.8.5 a couple of days ago, and now when I wake it from sleep and start typing immediately, as my hands are conditioned to do after many hundreds of repetitions, I reliably get three characters entered, then the keyboard stops working. It is as if something else is stealing the keyboard focus. I need to click in the password box in order to continue typing.

This is definitely a bug, though a very minor one. It worked perfectly fine on this same hardware for a year and a half and immediately displayed this problem upon upgrading from 10.6.8 to 10.8.5.

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