News and Updates
DssW's latest news and information. Announcements, insights, and guides all appear here first.
Power Manager 4.6.5 Released
Announcing the launch of Power Manager and Power Manager Professional 4.6.5 for Mac.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Power Manager 4.6.5. This update focuses on code modernisation and deprecates a few older security options. Power Manager 4.6.5 requires macOS 10.10 or later. …
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How to Stop Your Mac Sleeping While Time Machine is Running
Learn how to keep your Mac awake while Time Machine is running.
You can tell Power Manager not to put your Mac to sleep while Time Machine is running. In this recipe, we walk through how to add this condition to your sleep event. …
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Cloning and Deploying a Power Manager Schedule
Learn how to clone a Power Manager schedule using the command line tool pmctl.
In this recipe we will walk through cloning an existing Power Manager schedule and deploying it to other Macs. We will do this without Power Manager Professional and instead use Power Manager’s included command line tool pmctl. …
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Power Manager 4.6.4 Released
Announcing the launch of Power Manager 4.6.4 for Mac.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Power Manager 4.6.4. This update fixes bugs and extends available durations from one day to one year. Power Manager 4.6.4 requires macOS 10.10 or later. …
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Power Manager 4.6.3 Released
Announcing the launch of Power Manager 4.6.3 and Power Manager Professional for Mac.
Today we released Power Manager and Power Manager Pro 4.6.3. This update fixes a bug in the Event Editor and, for Professional, includes updates to the Schedule Assistant. Updating Power Manager Power Manager will automatically check for updates every so often, so there is nothing to do. The update will automatically be offered to you during the next few weeks. …
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Power Manager 4.6.2 Released
Announcing the launch of Power Manager 4.6.2 for Mac.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Power Manager 4.6.2. This update adds new open document tasks to the Schedule Assistant, deprecates movie playing tasks, and improves support for macOS 10.13. …
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DssW is Twenty Years Old
DssW, the UK based software company, is twenty years old today. Twenty years is a long time in the software business.
Twenty years ago, I set up DssW to sell Power Manager on the then latest Macintosh operating system, Mac OS 8. I had written Power Manager while still a student and needed a business structure. With a business structure I could, I thought, trivially accept card payments and deal with customers around the world. …
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How to Mount a Mac Drive to a Schedule
Learn how to automatically mount a drive or volume on macOS to a schedule.
You can use Power Manager to automatically mount a hard drive on your Mac. This is particularly useful for preparing a drive for backing up or mirroring your files. When the back up is complete, you can also unmount the same drive with Power Manager. …
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Power Manager 4.6.1 Released
Announcing the launch of Power Manager and Power Manager Professional 4.6.1 for Mac.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Power Manager and Power Manager Pro 4.6.1. This update improves support for macOS 10.12.4 and ends support for older versions of macOS. Power Manager 4.6.1 requires macOS 10.10 or later. …
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How to View Power Manager's Unified Log Entries
Learn how to view Power Manager's log entries in macOS's Unified Logging system.
With macOS 10.12, aka Sierra, Apple introduced a new log file system called Unified Logging. This new system changes how you find and view log entries created by Power Manager and other applications on your Mac. In this recipe, I will show you how to list Power Manager’s log entries. …
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