Method to properly turn off Nap App for specific Applications

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Method to properly turn off Nap App for specific Applications

Would like to know the true and proper way to apply this on my Mac Pro. While it's easy to turn off App Nap systemwide, and believe me, I'd love to on my desktop machines, it just seems reckless. If it isn't reckless and doesn't provide a potential for other problems to creep up then let me know. This is the command I have for doing it systemwide:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAppSleepDisabled -bool true

I ultimately want to know how to disable App Nap for particular Applications though, the ones that I feel really shouldn't be sleeping ever unless the entire system is, like Finder for example, and even more so on my Mac Pro desktop. I'm comfortable in Terminal or single-user mode so if it's a long, drawn-out process involving command-line that's ok with me, I only want to do this the right way. It seems like the systemwide approach only creates more flags in Console, maybe there are other steps that need to be implemented as well?

Thanks to anyone who wants to help out with this.

As a formality:

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Feb 20, 2016 2:34 PM

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U-96 Author

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Feb 20, 2016 4:05 PM in response to Kappy

Hey Kappy, thanks for responding. A couple of quick notes first.

1. I'm asking about App Nap here, not Power Nap.

2. It seems you've taken "reckless" out of the context it was placed in for some reason. Probably because you didn't really bother to read my post closely (see item 1), or you're just too eager to act surly on a support site that you've voluntarily logged in to.

Try it again?

"While it's easy to turn off App Nap systemwide, and believe me, I'd love to on my desktop machines, it just seems reckless."

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Kappy

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Feb 20, 2016 2:46 PM in response to U-96

There is no such option. It's all On or all Off. There is nothing reckless about not using it. I don't use it and nothing bad has happened. The command line is not needed as you can control it via Energy Saver preferences.

Now you called it reckless, so why is it reckless. It's up to you to explain your assertion, not for us to explain it. Power Nap is merely a convenience for people who like to put the computer to sleep, but want it to continue doing certain things like checking mail.

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