News and Updates
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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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Power Manager 4.6.0 Released
Announcing the launch of Power Manager and Power Manager Professional 4.6 for Mac.
We are pleased to announce the launch of Power Manager and Power Manager Pro 4.6. This significant update introduces new Schedule Assistant tasks, Dark Mode support, and numerous refinements. We have also continued to work on the internal scheduling engine to ensure it remains modern and efficient. …
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How to Automatically and Quietly Shut Down a Mac
Learn how to automatically shut down a Mac quietly without notifications.
Power Manager can automatically shut down a Mac. The default approach is to provide the user with plenty of notification and warning beforehand. Sometimes these warnings are not desirable. In this recipe, we will walk through how to automatically shut down a Mac without forewarning. …
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How to Run a Script Before an Inactivity Triggered Log Out
Learn how to run a script just before automatically logging out an inactive Mac.
Power Manager can automatically log out an inactive Mac. The approach is predictable and unaffected by applications attempting to block or interrupt the log out with last minute dialogs. We have previously walked through how to create an inactivity triggered log out event. We have also looked at how to add a warning prior to the log out. …
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Power Manager 4.5.4 Released
Announcing the launch of Power Manager and Power Manager Professional 4.5.4 for OS X and macOS.
Today we released Power Manager and Power Manager Pro 4.5.4. This update fixes a bug affecting the macOS 10.12 beta releases and includes updates to third party libraries. 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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How to Show an Inactivity Warning
Learn how to show a warning before an inactivity triggered event occurs.
Inactivity triggered events are frequently used to automatically log out or shut down Macs left unused or idle. This is great for public computers and Macs in academic environments such as labs. In this recipe, we learn how to warn users well before the log out. …
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How to Trigger an Event with the Power Manager Application
Learn how to trigger an on-demand event from the macOS Power Manager application.
On-demand events can be triggered manually. In this recipe we show how to do this using the Power Manager application on macOS. To be able to perform or trigger on-demand, an event needs to have the on-demand behaviour enabled. This is a per-event setting. We walk through enabling and disabling this setting in the recipe How to Add On-Demand Behaviour to an Event. …
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How to Add On-Demand Behaviour to an Event
Learn how to add on-demand behaviour to your Power Manager events. On-demand allows you to perform events manually, at any time.
Power Manager events are typically performed when a specific trigger is detected. The range of available triggers is large and often extended in our free updates, but sometimes it is useful to be able to trigger your events manually. …
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