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separate prefs for battery & AC power
Authored by: chabig on Jul 24, '02 11:53:01AM

I've since discovered that I don't have that file in my ~/Library/Preferences/ directory, but I do have it in my /private/var/db/SystemConfiguration/ directory.

I made the battery and AC settings different, logged out and back in, and checked the Energy Saver pref pane to see if there was a difference between AC and battery power. There was none.

This leads me to believe that Apple is preparing for Jaguar, but that the current OS can't handle different energy saver settings for battery and AC power.



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Re: separate prefs for battery & AC power
Authored by: hayne on Jul 25, '02 02:08:37AM

I don't expect the difference to show up in the Preferences pane (that is what I alluded to by my worry that the Prefs pane might be confused) but I suspect that if you have different settings in the two sections of the file, you might get different energy-saving behaviours. You could try this out - e.g. set the sleep time for AC power to 100 minutes and for battery to 1 minute and then test it. But don't open the Prefs panel - I suspect opening it might cause it to overwrite the file with whatever is shown in the panel.



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