I always leave my MDD asleep. That way I can wake it from my iBook and print to the MDD attached printer or I can get to the files I need. I use the open source program WOL (Wake On Lan) to wake it up. Every so often it would crash on wake up. So I bought a UPS. I *NEVER* turn my iBook off. I always use sleep mode. I routinely go more than a month between boots. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.