Comments on: Make my Macbook Pro Hibernate

By: Osama Gamal

Osama Gamal — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:30:37 +0000

I tweaked your command a little to satisfy my needs :D

alias hibernate="sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 5; sudo shutdown -s now && sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3"

Check my full article here: http://blog.osama-gma.net/?p=232

Thanks, you helped me a lot ;)

By: Mai

Mai — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:35:25 +0000

hmm so when i put in the last execute file it said no such file exists but when i typed in 'hibernateon' it still allowed me to hibernate…did i do something wrong?

By: max13

max13 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:59:35 +0000

Than I put pmset -g | grep hibernate in terminal, It's return me nothing. What should I do to fix that?

By: Detaer

Detaer — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:22:59 +0000

Ohh look and here is an app to put the macbook directly to sleep!
http://blog.kaputtendorf.de/2007/08/17/hibernat...
Thanks for posting your link here Mark Wheadon, you are my epal.

By: Detaer

Detaer — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:21:46 +0000

http://www.jinx.de/SmartSleep.html

I have been using this, I am still looking for a single button to initiate hibernation rather than having to change system settings.

By: Mark Wheadon

Mark Wheadon — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:06:10 +0000

Or, if you'd like the machine to go back to its normal hibernate behaviour after it's been hibernated, without having to remember to run hibernateoff, then how about:

http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/01/hiberna...

Cheers,

Mark

By: Tom G

Tom G — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:58:11 +0000

I would try the Hibernation Tool mentioned above. It works great for single uses too since the script automatically reverts the sleep setting to 0. Otherwise the Smart Sleep preference pane works well too. As for the bash, I would try to rewrite the alias. That's a strange problem that I haven't seen myself. Anyway, options 1 and 2 are the simplest unless you really dig terminal.

By: Fabio

Fabio — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:22:42 +0000

I am having some problem with hibernatemode on my macbook (10.5.6). I wrote the alias lines to my .bash_profile. the first time I put mac to hibernate it works fine, but, the second time the macbook doesn't hibernate, the screen turn off and the sleep light turn on .. so, I need to hold on Power button some seconds to power off and start it again … This happen just the second time, the first time works great … If I power off or restart the mac after the first time, I am able to hibernate again …

Does somebody have some idea?

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:26:59 +0000

sven,

I downloaded that application that you suggested. I have always been a PC user and when I try and get out of hibernate, all I had to do was press a key to re-start the machine. I wasn't able to do that this time. How do I wake up my computer from hibernate mode using the tool you suggested above?

Thanks,Eileen

By: Sven

Sven — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:35:52 +0000

This Hibernation Tool does not need any administrative rights and is easier to use in contrary to the "sudo" commands above:
http://blog.kaputtendorf.de/2007/08/17/hibernation-tool-for-mac-os/