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🗓️ 9 November 2025
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On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, how do you prevent your Mac from automatically falling asleep to conduct overnight backups? Mikah Sargent shares some third-party apps that will do just that!
Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, what happens when you've got processes that you want running on your Mac, |
| 0:06.0 | but it keeps falling asleep? |
| 0:08.0 | Stay tuned for my answer. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech. I am am Micah Sargent and today we are answering your tech |
| 0:25.6 | questions. I'm looking forward to this one. This question comes from Kevin. Kevin writes, |
| 0:30.1 | Dear Micah, I have a Mac Studio M1 Max from 2020 running Tahoe 26.0.1 and I use Super Super Duper to backup my hard drive. Even though I have, |
| 0:41.5 | quote, prevent automatic sleeping when display is off, checked, the Superduper backup does not |
| 0:47.7 | do the backup until I wake it up in the morning. I also have, quote, put hard disks to sleep |
| 0:53.6 | when possible, unchecked. I cannot |
| 0:56.4 | schedule a wake-up for the Mac because that has been taken out of Tahoe. Is there a setting I'm |
| 1:00.9 | missing that will take care of this problem? If not, is there a third-party app that will do this? |
| 1:05.3 | I have looked at Tinker Tool, which will do that and a lot more. Do you feel it would be worth getting |
| 1:10.0 | it for all the features it has? |
| 1:11.3 | I've been a faithful club twit member since November 2023 and watch almost all of the |
| 1:16.5 | twit podcasts, especially the Mac shows. Whatever suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated. |
| 1:22.5 | Kevin, you are greatly appreciated. Thank you for being a member of ClubTuit. I really appreciate it. |
| 1:26.5 | So I love this question because there are a lot of tools that can help you with this problem. |
| 1:33.0 | And some of them incredibly powerful, others not as powerful, but can still get done what you |
| 1:38.8 | want to get done. |
| 1:40.5 | And the first app that I want to talk about is one that you may be, you may have heard of. |
| 1:47.8 | Actually, I'm going to do a little bit of a, I'm going to, before I even get to it, I'm going to mention something. |
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