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From: Paul Sture on 12 Jul 2010 04:47
In article <i1daca$n0j$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:

> But that ISN�T what the label says. It says �Log out
> after sixty minutes of inactivity.� And it is in the
> SECURITY preferences. When I check an option, it�s because
> I want what the option promises. My beef is that I�m not
> getting it.

Sorry, we are are cross purposes. I was writing about the delay you get
when you select logout/shutdown/restart from the menu.

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From: Paul Sture on 12 Jul 2010 04:50
In article
<michelle-EBED6D.10335911072010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.e
xample.com>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-984439.11520611072010(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > > Control-Command-Eject
> >
> > According to Apple, Control-Command-Eject quits all applications (after
> > giving you a chance to save changes to open documents), then restarts
> > the computer. So this also is not what the OP wants.
> >
> > <http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343>
>
> when I tried it, before posting that reply, it did not offer me the option
> of saving changes in MTNW.

Back when I was experiencing power cuts I got used to hitting cmd-s in
MTNW to save my current context every now and then.

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Paul Sture
From: Wes Groleau on 12 Jul 2010 13:34
On 07-11-2010 22:53, dorayme wrote:
> *a bit* for a long time... I am telling you Wes, managing a Mac
> is no trivial business, it is full of adventure and DANGER.

The upper-case suggests to me that you have actually dropped
an eMac on your foot instead of just imagining it.

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From: Thomas R. Kettler on 12 Jul 2010 14:12
In article
<michelle-B51176.17285411072010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.e
xample.com>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> In article
> <250144373300580621.808915jollyroger-pobox.com(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > > when I tried it, before posting that reply, it did not offer me the
> > > option of saving changes in MTNW.
> >
> > I have never had MTNW ask to save changes on quit. It's up to each
> > individual application to prompt the user to save unsaved changes on
> > quit.
>
> D'oh. You're right; it asks to save changes if you try to close the groups
> listing if you hadn't saved it, but not when you quit. I don't quit it
> normally, and I routinely manually quit apps that have open windows before
> restarting or shutting down.

That's only because you must have the "Auto Save on Quit" Checked for
User Group Lists in the Saving Files Preference. If you uncheck this, it
will ask you if you want to save the changes when you quit.
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From: dorayme on 12 Jul 2010 19:11
In article <i1fjmd$t2j$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:

> On 07-11-2010 22:53, dorayme wrote:
> > *a bit* for a long time... I am telling you Wes, managing a Mac
> > is no trivial business, it is full of adventure and DANGER.
>
> The upper-case suggests to me that you have actually dropped
> an eMac on your foot instead of just imagining it.

There were some Macs, Performas I think, that were even bigger
and heavier! <g>

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