#Keep drive spinning for mac for mac os x

I went into the Preferences pane and unchecked 'put hard disk to sleep when possible' option and I also checked 'prevent hard disks from sleeping automatically when the display is off.' Also this was not an issue with the previous computer a 2013 MacPro desktop. Keep Drive Spinning for Mac OS X 3.0 full screenshot - offers free software downloads for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android computers and. This is not a case of the drives going to sleep after an hour of inactivity - it happens within minutes - even while working in the programs. This makes it impossible to work on programs like After Effects or Adobe Audition without having to stop and wait for the drives to spin up every 1-2 minutes. Keep Drive Spinning for Mac OS X 3. In the Force Quit Applications window select the unresponsive application and click on Force Quit button. Click on Apple menu in the top left corner of the screen and select Force Quit.

This is annoying, as even if you are browsing files in. The quick and easy way to stop the spinning color wheel is to close the unresponsive app. You can find the launch agents made by Keep Drive Spinning in the LaunchAgents folder of your users Library folder. Meaning that no matter what preferences are set in System Preferences, if 10 minutes of inactivity have passed, the hard drive will go to sleep. The problem I'm having is that the drives continually spin down when connected - basically after 1-2 minutes of 'inactivity'. A problem with some of the Western Digital's My Book external hard drives is that they have a spin-down functionality built into their firmware. These external drives are the drives I primarily work off of due to storage limitations of the internal hard drive. I have two external drives connected to it. In the past have used SpinDownFix to keep 'em rolling so that there's no wait while they all start up every time anything needs to access the FileSystem. All my backup drives are external of course. I recently purchased a New iMac (M1 chip 2021) running Big Sur. Just got a new imac 27' - dlighted with it in every way :-) 10.7.1.

Keep drive spinning for mac