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western digital freezes after sleep mode
Whenever I wake up my computer from sleep mode with a western digital my book drive attached it completely hangs up the finder and I have to shut the entire computer down.
I have done exhaustive searches on this problem and find that many others are experiences the same thing as me… and there doesn’t seem to be a solution that I could find.
Anyone have any fixes aside from disabling the computers sleep mode?
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[Justin Pokrant] “Anyone have any fixes aside from disabling the computers sleep mode?”
Justin,
Disabling the sleep mode is the fix, there is no other. Turning energy saver settings to “never” is recommended for all users of FCP.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Western Digital’s esata My Book has a serious design flaw, although don’t expect the company to admit it any time soon.
It “goes to sleep” after around 10 minutes, and there is little you can do to wake it up. If Final Cut is open it crashes the program. Meanwhile if you try to open Final Cut while My Book is in sleep mode you will find that the computer locks up, and if you dare to switch off the drive your program opens with all the video shown as offline.
Even when you eventually restart everything often the program opens with all those images still offline, and I am not sure of a quick fix to get them all back again, apart from dealing with each image one by one.Western Digital need a good spanking for putting a defective device on the market. I guess they think testing their products is simply a task too far.
P.S. I asked the company for advice on curing the problem and they told me to download a file, which proved about as effective as their customer support… i.e. extremely poor.
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Nigel,
First, did you turn all energy saver and sleep setting in Sytem Preference to “never”?
Second, give Ditial Heaven’s Disksomnia a try. It’s freeware tailor made for people in your situation, and made by Martin and his gang at DH who have a wonderful way with all thngs Apple.
https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/freeware/disksomnia.phpDavid Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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