Losing everything and restarting when running out of battery?

[TheRdungeon]

Hi all,

In Lion, when I ran out of battery and powered back on I would get a white screen with loading bars and everything would be restored back to normal after a few seconds. Yesterday I ran out of battery in mavericks and the thing had lost the logic file I was working on along with all the other stuff I had open! It kind of restarted back to a blank desktop.

This is so unacceptable, is there a setting I can switch to get back the old behaviour?

Thanks heaps

 

[satcomer]

Try to Reset your NVRAM to see if that helps.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

You're describing Safe Sleep - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1757

Should still be working, reset NVRAM like @satcomer said but I don't think there are any configurable options for that.

 

[TheRdungeon]

Try to Reset your NVRAM to see if that helps.

Cheers but I can't seem to get it to work. the grey screen comes up instantly and when I hold those keys down an icon with a padlock comes up and I get what appears to be some restore setting thing, it doesn't restart again. Any thoughts?

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All good turned firmware password off, now to run it out of batt and see if it worked

 

[meme1255]

1) Insert into Terminal:

pmset -g | grep hibernatemode

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2) if output is zero, then pmset hibernatemode 3

 

[TheRdungeon]

1) Insert into Terminal:

pmset -g | grep hibernatemode

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2) if output is zero, then pmset hibernatemode 3

Cool it's on 3. Forgot to test it actually

 

[jruschme]

Could the OP's battery need recalibration? I'm wondering if it is running out of power before the Mac thinks it should (i.e., trigger point for hibernate).