After graphics update, i cannot get rid of sleepimage

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andy318

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Jun 18, 2009

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• Nov 9, 2012

• #1

I have a 15" rMBP and had turned off hibernation mode (sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0)

After the recent update i see that the sleepimage (8.0GB) file is back and if i delete it, it returns after a reboot.

pmset -g shows that hibernatemode is set to 0 and i even tried creating a 1 byte /var/vm/sleepimage file to see if thats good enough for the OS but that didn't work either.

Anyone have a solution for this?

 

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moofpup

macrumors newbie

Nov 9, 2012

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• Nov 9, 2012

• #2

It's happening to me too

It's happening to me too. No utility or terminal command works to stop the safe sleep image from being rebuilt at startup. Resetting the Pram and SMC don't work either.

 

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CausticPuppy

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May 1, 2012

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• Nov 9, 2012

• #3

13" retina macbook pros behave like this from the factory.

One alternative was proposed in my thread about the issue:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1480259/


Another one here which sends the sleepimage to /dev/null whenever the system tries to create it:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/16264456/


I haven't tried either one yet, I'm not running out of space just yet so I'm going to let other people be the guinea pig first.

 

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andy318

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Original poster

Jun 18, 2009

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• Nov 9, 2012

• #4

That worked. Thanks!