Avoid Logitech Control Center crashes via a reminder

Dec 20, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: yeidel

I love my Logitech MX510 multi-button mouse, but it has a drawback: to use all the nifty buttons on it, you have to use the Logitech Control Center (or pony up for USB Overdrive). While the most recent version (2.4.0 as of this writing) of LCC no longer uses the controversial Unsanity APE, it's not bug-free. In particular, if I unplug my mouse after putting my Mac to sleep, the system won't wake up -- a power-button reset is my only option.

The obvious cure is to unplug before sleep, but I have a habit of doing things in the opposite order. The following AppleScript reminds me to do first things first:

display dialog "Remove mouse before sleep" with icon caution
tell application "Finder" to sleep
I use Butler to trigger this with a hotkey, but any technique to launch an AppleScript will work.

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