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Known bugs in El Capitan 10.11.6: an incomplete summary

With only one bug definitely fixed in 10.11.6, out of those recorded for 10.11.5, this update looks rushed. But the jury’s still out regarding freezing.

July 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing problems: crash, freeze, panic, or spinning beachball?

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Was that crash a freeze, a panic, or just a spinning beachball? And what do they mean?

July 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Power Management in OS X

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Do your settings in the Energy Saver pane differ from what actually happens? Learn how to use pmset to understand why, and diagnose old battery problems.

June 10, 2016 Macs, Technology

Growing suspicions about El Capitan 10.11.4 and power management

After a ‘Sleep Wake Failure’ and a bizarre ‘GPU Reset’, I’m not convinced that 10.11.4 is doing this iMac much good.

April 30, 2016 Macs, Technology

An unwarranted login: things that go bump in the night

What do you do when your Mac seems to have restarted quietly when it should have been asleep?

April 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Bug in El Capitan: Power management ignores setting to not sleep hard disks

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On some iMacs at least, the settings in Energy Saver are partly ignored. This must be a bug.

March 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

Energy Saver sleep settings solved

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How to set your Energy Saver sleep settings to what you want, rather than what Apple might want you to.

February 25, 2016 Macs, Technology

Dyssomnia, or how did saving energy get so complex?

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Controlling my iMac’s sleeping habits has become a real pain. Let’s hope that this is the solution.

February 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

El Capitan: saving too much energy?

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The Energy Saver pane is now such a mess that even Apple does not know how it should appear, or function.

January 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Deepest sleep

When I leave my iMac to go to sleep, it cannot be woken and seems to have shut down. Is this a fault?

December 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

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