Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIEcuIElzYWFr?= Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Insomniacal Mac Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 18:35:39 -0600 Organization: Christians and Atheists United Against Creeping Agnosticism Lines: 14 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:35:39 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5a662d4a4efbf611de66d1d52bb6624e"; logging-data="1833399"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18EmtAbcI4DvYOvDzT0aAD4" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qbYl20SoVnlUMMyCIxmh6I3oqh0= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1495 When I put my Mac to sleep for the night, all the external hard drives spin up for a few minutes around once an hour or so which is irritating me. The screen does not wake up. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for how to prevent this. I'm running a 2020 Retina 5K iMac under macOS 12.6.7. In my Energy Saver System Preferences, both 'enable power nap' and 'wake for network access' are UNchecked. 'put hard disks to sleep when possible' is checked. André -- To email remove 'invalid' & replace 'gm' with well known Google mail service.