iMac 24" not sleeping

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iMac 24" not sleeping

iMac, Ventura, goest to screen saver then back to wake... if i click 'sleep' from the dropdown, it wakes sometimes immediately, sometime after a minute or so. Settings in energy saver and lockscreen are as they should be, I checked Activity Monitor for apps preventing sleep, tried disconnecting wifi, only have keyboard, mouse and touchpad on Bluetooth.

The only other thing I'd noticed is that it had renamed my (mac) keyboard and (mac) mouse, for some reason.

No new apps or any other additions to the system.

Any hints will be very much appreciated - currently, I'm powering it down every night.

Posted on Mar 13, 2023 11:22 AM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Mar 13, 2023 04:43 PM in response to HypnoTerence

Could be a HW glitch, but...

We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...

EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info.

https://www.etrecheck.com/

Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report if you capture the URL while there…

Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck. In a Reply before you click post, look for this to add longer texts...

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Answer 2

hcsitas

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Mar 14, 2023 07:27 AM in response to HypnoTerence

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To disable Sleep, use/confirm you have these settings:

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Answer 3

HypnoTerence Author

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Mar 14, 2023 06:36 AM in response to BDAqua

Thank you - as luck would have it, today it's working just as it should do, but I might run the Etrecheck anyway (not sure why I didn't think of that in the first place!)

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