Mac Sleeping Unnecessarily

[Rocco83]

I'll preface this by saying I am using a Mac for the first time. I'm in the process of trying to rip and encode 600 DVDs. When I go to sleep at night I would like to be able to leave my computer encoding throughout the night. No matter what I do I cannot get my iMac to stay on throughout the night running Handbrake while I put the screen to sleep. I've tried different settings in the energy saving preferences and no matter what I do it ends up shutting itself off 5 minutes after I shut off the screen with the keyboard short cut.

 

[stevenlangley1]

I guess you could set it up to never sleep in system prefs and just turn down the screen brightness all the way down when you go to bed. That should work.

 

[FrankHahn]

Try setting a short time for display sleep (say 3 or 5 min) in the energy saving pane and letting the display sleep by itself without using any shortcut keys.

 

[wordoflife]

What about the program Caffeine?

 

[Rocco83]

I guess you could set it up to never sleep in system prefs and just turn down the screen brightness all the way down when you go to bed. That should work.

Tried it and it still went to sleep about 15 minutes after I let it be.

Try setting a short time for display sleep (say 3 or 5 min) in the energy saving pane and letting the display sleep by itself without using any shortcut keys.

Tried this also and no dice.

As far as the Caffeine app goes I will have to check it out. Haven't heard of it before.

 

[GGJstudios]

As far as the Caffeine app goes I will have to check it out. Haven't heard of it before.

Caffeine will definitely do what you want.

 

[Rocco83]

What about the program Caffeine?

Caffeine will definitely do what you want.

Thank you both. It seems to do quite nicely for me. Gracias