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Ask HN: How to Hibernate Mac Studio?

3 points| xeonax | 1 year ago

Windows has feature where it pauses all running apps, and shuts down the computer. You can remove power, and then when connected back, it resumes wherever it left of. Even maintaining clipboard content, you can even resume unsaved games.

Closest I found in MacOS is reopen previous windows, which just launches the launcher of few apps I use, but doesn't actually resume.

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runjake|1 year ago

What are you trying to accomplish by hibernating exactly?

While I'd recommend against it, the command I believe you're looking for is:

  sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3
Edit: this does not appear to work correctly on macOS 15? I'm getting mixed results[1]. It looks like Hibernate was added back to Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 11.3[2]

1. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/416108/how-to-enab...

2. https://support.apple.com/en-us/106338

xeonax|1 year ago

I use softwares, that opens projects, which take some time to open, say for e.g. Unity Editor, Visual Studio etc. With the reopen windows thing, it just launches the Unity Hub, and Visual Studio Launcher. It doesn't actually open the apps to the state I was expecting, hence wasting time. I was looking for Windows like Hibernate, coz I don't need to keep it powered. Imagine, being able to resume from exact previous state, all undo history maintained, clipboard state, everything as was left previously, This is how it worked on windows.