How do I make my iMac stop closing everything (apps) and loosing all my work when it goes to sleep and logs out (which helps save the display so I want it to sleep/log out like it used to WITHOUT closing all the apps)?

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How do I make my iMac stop closing everything (apps) and loosing all my work when it goes to sleep and logs out (which helps save the display so I want it to sleep/log out like it used to WITHOUT closing all the apps)?

Every time my computer goes to sleep it closes every single app and I lose all of the work and the pages! before the update, my computer would go to sleep and when I would unlock and log back in, everything was where I left it. Now when my computer goes to sleep and logs out it closes everything! This was never an issue before the update. Now I am being told in order to stop it from logging out I have to stop it from going to sleep! That is not good for the computer Display and I like to know that what I am working on is protected so that if I walk away from my desk it will log out. I just don't want it to close everything when it logs out like it is currently doing but has never done before this update. in the past, I could log out for days at a time but when I logged back in everything was where I left it. Why is this new update causing so many issues? Why can't what we are working on stay where it is when the computer logs out and goes to sleep? this new update is not conducive to working environments because one is afraid to leave their computer for too long otherwise they lose all of their work! If I am on a website, and I am in the process of replying to someone in an email or on a site response box and the computer logs out, I have to start all over again! This is very time consuming, wasteful, annoying, and makes working on an Apple Computer no longer enjoyable! Please tell me how to keep my computer from closing all of its apps when it goes to sleep and logs out because I wanted to go to sleep and log out to save the display I just don't want to lose all of my work!

Posted on Jun 28, 2018 11:27 AM

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BobHarris

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Jun 29, 2018 6:31 AM in response to mrsdnoble

If your system is crashing, then please post the Panic reports.

Look for the Kernel Panic reports at:

Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder -> /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports

<http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2546>

<http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200553>

The panic report should have "panic" in the file name.

If your system is logging out, then also look at

System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Advanced (if Advanced is grayed out, click on the padlock in the lower left corner and authorize access)

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Eau Rouge

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Jun 28, 2018 10:36 PM in response to mrsdnoble

Perhaps you should read my answer again in Energy Saver you can set the Display to go to sleep after a set amount of time (that you choose) as per the screenshot above, and you can have the computer set to never sleep so it will not close apps and documents whilst your Display sleeps, this is exactly what you asked for.

I have just come back to my computer after being away for over an hour, the Display went to sleep after 15 minutes and when I came back to my computer all I had to do was to press any key on the keyboard or click the mouse and the Display wakes and all the apps and files that were open prior to my leaving the Mac are still there.

You can also go to System Preferences> Security & Privacy> General here you can set how long before a password will be required after sleep.

Also look at the dialogue you get when shutting down your Mac, a box will pop up with the option to check a box

Reopen windows when logging back in, select it.

Once you have set your Mac up accordingly see if the behaviour has modified, if it hasn't;t then it may be a corrupt System Preferences .plist, which we can deal with later if need be.

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Jul 23, 2018 7:30 AM in response to BobHarris

Hello, all, I was having the same issues as @mrsdnoble—coming back to computer asking for password and all my apps had been closed. It wasn't "crashing"/or shutting down, just back to that screen even though I had both energy saving settings set to "Never." Having read this thread, though, I believe this log out feature was the culprit (hidden there behind the padlock and the "advanced" setting). It hasn't happened to me since deselecting the "log out after..." setting, and makes sense that I was getting logged out since the machine was still on, but the apps were closed, and it was asking for my password. Not sure how the auto log out got turned on passively (with a software update??), kid of annoying this happened without my setting it that way, but glad I figured this out. Errr...YOU figured this out. Thank you for your help!

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Eau Rouge

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Jun 28, 2018 11:36 AM in response to mrsdnoble

Open System Preferences> Energy Saver and set your Computer to never sleep and set your Display to sleep after a desired time.

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mrsdnoble Author

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Jun 28, 2018 6:36 PM in response to Eau Rouge

Not only is that horrible for the life of the display But its tip-toeing around the MAJOR PROBLEM!

I want to fix it from shutting all apps when going to sleep, not prevent it from sleeping and shortening the life of my display.

And I've already done this but it eventually goes to screensaver and logs out after a while. So this fix isn't a solution.

I want a solition not a deterrent!!!

Avoiding the issue will not fix it. This needs to be addressed!!!

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Barney-15E

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Jun 28, 2018 6:58 PM in response to mrsdnoble

You need to figure out what you have installed that is causing it to crash when it sleeps.

You can run http://www.etrecheck.com/ to see what you have installed.

You can also reinstall the latest combo update. If something went haywire in the update, the combo might fix it.

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mrsdnoble Author

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Jun 28, 2018 8:52 PM in response to Barney-15E

My computer is not crashing. It is simply logging out and when it logged out and goes to sleep it completely shuts everything down. This is not a new issue, it has been going on for quite some time and there are several discussions about it. I could've tagged along with the other discussions and pose this question there but it requested then I pose the question on a new discussion site. I do not know if this is something that Apple is trying to fix or is going To look into fixing but I do know that it is an issue for many other Apple Computer users. I'm just hoping that someone out there who is had this issue has found a solution that does not require one to not allow the display to go to sleep and log out so that it increases its longevity. It is recommended that the display be put to rest when the computer is not in use. This is what I used to always do until the update where it started closing everything when it logged out and went to sleep. I have since follow the recommendations to not allow the computer to go to sleep nor to log out but I do you have the screen saver set to go on to help the computer display. However when the screen saver goes on and it has been several minutes, computer eventually logs out and goes to sleep. There is no where in the settings that I can figure out why it is doing this from the screen saver and I have not figured out how to change that setting however in a house with two children do you want my computer to log out when I'm not on it to keep them off my account! I also want to know if they log out of my account and go to their account that when I log back into my account my stuff is still there! At least that is how are used to be. The

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Barney-15E

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Jun 29, 2018 1:37 PM in response to mrsdnoble

My computer is not crashing.

Now when my computer goes to sleep and logs out it closes everything!

Those two statements don't jive. If you didn't change anything, and it now "logs out" on you while sleeping, it is crashing. The Mac doesn't log out when it sleeps, and if you didn't change anything, there is something wrong with your Mac.

The setting that Bob Harris has shown takes fairly extraordinary effort to change. It doesn't just change on its own.

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