On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 09:48 PM, Mike Beede wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 15:22 US/Central, Joe Sporleder wrote: > >> Do y'all put your iBook to sleep or shut it down when moving it long >> distances? > > The only time my wife's iBook or my TiBook shut down is when necessary > for an upgrade or when something is wedged (pretty rare now--more > common with 10.1). Sleeping all day shouldn't be a problem at all > unless your battery is shot. If it is, then you might have trouble > waking up (because it actually died or something). > > Mike > Mike: Do you use software to run the "chron" (cron ?) functions for OS X maintenance. I have my macs set to sleep after a few minutes of non-use and I've never dealt with this issue head on. Donald