[Leica] Windows 10 Annoyance

[Jim Nichols]

When asleep, my My Book drive wakes up in about 10 seconds when accessed.

Tina, are you saying that you have to physically switch your drives back on?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 9/28/2016 2:20 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Tina, I stand corrected.  The light on the My Book just started blinking.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 9/28/2016 12:07 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
>> I downloaded that a few weeks ago but it doesn't work either :-(
>>
>> It's supposed to keep nudging the hard drive to keep it awake, but 
>> mine go
>> to sleep anyway!
>>
>> The built-in drives are fine and three external hard drives and my Jobo
>> stay on all the time.  The 12 drives that I have in 3 ProBox external 
>> cases
>> are the ones that go to sleep. I've tried changing the USB ports and 
>> moving
>> them around but nothing works.  If I'm working with one particular 
>> drive,
>> all of the ones connected in the same box with it stay awake until I 
>> quit
>> working on it for two minutes.  Then they all go to sleep.  I have to 
>> keep
>> jumping up and turning them back on.  Whatever program I'm working on 
>> can't
>> find the files and it screws everything up.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Aram <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm.  Thought that would work, but maybe that only works for built in
>>> drives.  You might try this freeware software:
>>>
>>> http://nosleephd.codeplex.com/
>>>
>>> See if that solves your problem as it will work with all drives, 
>>> including
>>> external.
>>>
>>>
>>> Curious if your built in drive goes to sleep with your current 
>>> settings, or
>>> is it only your externals?
>>>
>>>
>>> Aram
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Aram Langhans
>>> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
>>> & Unemployed photographer
>>>
>>> “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin 
>>> himself
>>> would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tina Manley
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 8:25 AM
>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Windows 10 Annoyance
>>>
>>> Yes, that was one of the fixes suggested by the Windows forums, but it
>>> doesn't work.  I've tried setting it to never turn off and all various
>>> times but nothing works.  Mine is My Custom Plan instead of Balanced 
>>> and
>>> right now I have it set to never turn off - still does, though.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:21 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Try going into Control Panel > Power Options
>>>>
>>>> You are probably on 'Balanced'?
>>>>
>>>> Click on 'Change plan settings"
>>>>
>>>> Then "Changed advanced power settings"
>>>>
>>>> On my test machine it is set to turn off Hard disk after 20
>>> minutes.......
>>>> john
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>
>>>> I am past the allowed time to switch back to Windows 7 easily.  I 
>>>> could
>>>> download it and reinstall it, but that would mean reinstalling all 
>>>> of my
>>>> programs.  The thought of that makes me very tired :-(
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Tina
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:12 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> Don't use Windows 10?
>>>>>
>>>>> ;-) john
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.fr at leica-users.org] On
>>>>> Behalf Of Tina Manley
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 28 September 2016 5:08 p.m.
>>>>> To: MUGers at yahoogroups.com; Leica Users Group; paw; seephoto; Olympus
>>>>> Camera Discussion
>>>>> Subject: [Leica] Windows 10 Annoyance
>>>>>
>>>>> PESO:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am having a terrible problem with Windows 10.  All of my hard 
>>>>> drives
>>>>> go to sleep after less than 5 minutes if I am not accessing them
>>>> constantly.
>>>>> Since I have 12 external drives set up with all of my photos on them,
>>>>> this is an extreme annoyance.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have read all of the supposed fixes proposed on all of the Windows
>>>>> sites and forums and none of them work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do any of the geniuses here have any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA
>>>>>
>>>>> Tina
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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