Where are Mavericks sleep settings on MacBook Pro?

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Where are Mavericks sleep settings on MacBook Pro?

I'm using a new 13 inch MacBook Pro (Retina) running Mavericks 10.9.2. Looking at the Energy Saver panel, I don't see any way of altering the time before the computer sleeps: I can change what happens to the display and hard disks (actually this machine hasn't got any hard disks), but a sleep time setting is absent. An app I'm using, Splashtop Server, tells me that the machine is set to sleep after one minute, but I am not seeing this setting. Does anyone know where it is?

TIA

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2), 13 inch, late 2013, 2.4GHz, 8Gb

Posted on Apr 9, 2014 9:51 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 9, 2014 9:55 AM in response to Living Fossil

It should be under energy saver in the system preferrences. You should be able to change when the display will sleep, when the computer should sleep, and if you want to put hard disk to sleep (I think that's only with MacBook Pro with a built-in optical drive).

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Apr 9, 2014 10:07 AM in response to Look-at-menow

No, on my machine, I see the display sleep choice, but not the computer sleep. On my iMac, which is running the same version of Mavericks (10.9.2) I do see the computer sleep line at the top of the Energy Saver window. That's the issue - how can I access this choice on my MacBook? That line really isn't there, either on the battery or power adaptor tabs - I just checked again!

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Answer 3

Apr 9, 2014 10:54 AM in response to Living Fossil

Huh... Maybe it's only available for portable Macs. I have a MacBook Pro and I have the option for both display and computer sleep.

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Living Fossil Author

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Apr 9, 2014 11:39 AM in response to Look-at-menow

But mine IS a portable Mac - a MacBook Pro, apparently the same as you. That's the issue. Which version of the OS do you have? If it's the same as mine, I suppose I'll have to call Apple Support.

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Answer 5

Apr 10, 2014 8:42 AM in response to Living Fossil

Run a disk utility. If nothing comes up, call apple. If it's software related, it's a free repair at a genius bar.

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Morgs

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Jun 2, 2014 11:05 PM in response to Living Fossil

Did you manage to solve this? I am seeing the same thing. Simply no computer sleep settings on a Macbook Pro Retina 15inch 10.9.3

Thanks

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Morgs

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Jun 10, 2014 11:15 PM in response to Morgs

While I or they could not find a reference that clearly explains the change this is supposed to be a feature of Mavericks and the new portables.

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Answer 8

Jun 11, 2014 5:52 AM in response to Morgs

My last MacBook Pro was a non-retina 13" and it did have both a computer and display sleep timer. I guess with the retinas you don't have a computer sleep setting. Only a display sleep setting. I'm guessing it's because it uses flash memory and that doesn't use power like a traditional HDD or SSD. I believe it's also this way for the MacBook Air.

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Answer 9

Jul 2, 2015 3:53 PM in response to Look-at-menow

(MacBook Pro Retina '13 late 2013, Yosemite)

It should look like:

About Energy Saver sleep and idle modes in Mac OS X - Apple Support

but there is no "computer sleep" slider.

Why I can't turn off display and put downloads or any longer computing in background for some hours before sleep. Why I can't control this like in all Mac's Windows machines for last twenty years I did.

😢 😢 😢

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Living Fossil Author

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Jul 3, 2015 3:53 AM in response to rafal_jot

So, Rafal, this just seems to say that the problem still exists. I'm on Yosemite now, and I am not near my MacBook (I live in two countries and I keep the MacBook in the other one), but I suppose from your reply that the situation remains the same. So it was a policy decision by Apple: pity they didn't explain it anywhere - the article you quote refers to Mac OS X Lion and clearly hasn't been updated. Just to be clear, my iMac (non-portable, in other words) still allows both forms of sleep in Yosemite.

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Jul 3, 2015 4:05 AM in response to Living Fossil

I just noticed in this article:

OS X Yosemite: Set sleep and wake times for your Mac

The not very helpful remark:

"Note: Some of the options may not be available, depending on your Mac."

This really doesn't tell us anything, does it? I would like Apple to tell me if the issue actually exists and if so, if it was a change of policy, and if so, why they did it. Not very likely to happen, I fear.

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