Folding Forum

calxalot wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 12:53 am …simply switching to login window.

Yeah, that did it, thanks! Not convenient, but it works if/when I can remember to log out at night.

calxalot wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 12:53 am You can enable “fast user switching” in system preferences and there can be a menu item for switching user or simply switching to login window. This is different than logging out. It is also different than locking the screen.

Ah, I missed that in fast user switching! I'll try it tonight.

calxalot wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:42 pm Logout and switch to loginwindow work on your computer. Is neither acceptable?

I'm not clear on what you mean. Log out and log into another user? Or log out all users and leave on the login window?

calxalot wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:56 pm Do you have a second monitor connected?
I never tested with more than one monitor.

No, only the built-in iMac monitor.

But since running into issues with Migration Assistant and F@h installs years ago on strictly Intel Macs, I have installed F@h separately ever since. You gave me an idea: i uninstalled and reinstalled F@H. Oddly, it still had all my settings, so I guess the uninstaller didn't uninstall the data fil...

On fah installation, you have the option to allow folding for all users or only the single current user. Could this be an issue? I’ve always selected “all users” on my Macs, and never seen this problem, even when logged out. I didn't reinstall on the ARM iMac; Migration Assistant took care of that....

Interesting: I just created a new user to trouble-shoot Backblaze, and I had to switch back and forth. i find that every time I switched, my user started folding again, even though the machine is running and busy/not idle; evidently switching to another user idles the folding user. So maybe somethin...

calxalot wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:11 pm What is iGibToo?

Machine name.

Some mice and other devices continually send events to the computer, preventing sleep. Interesting…this machine came with BlueTooth mouse and keyboard. Maybe…? It must be that the screen is not actually put to sleep, or that it is woken up by something. Well, looking at the Console system log overn...

You seem to be saying that idle folding does indeed work when you log out. Correct. But with my previous iMac Intel, folding would start at some point after I walked away from the computer, and the log would show it stopping when I jiggled the mouse or pressed a key. There was no need to log out. I...

gibhenry wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 10:11 pm Did you try explicitly logging out?

I tried logging out last night, and sure 'nuff, F@H kept on truckin'. Maybe some other process keeps running when I just let it "idle" overnight? How can I determine whether that's happening, and what that process might be?

calxalot wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:37 pm Did you try explicitly logging out?

No. Never had to do it before, but just for fun I will tonight.

calxalot wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:08 pm Did you select Keep Awake?

Yes. Apparently I used the wrong term; should I have said "idle"?

The machine went to sleep at some point during the night, but no folding took place. As soon as I woke it up this morning and turned off "only when idle," it resumed folding where it left off. I have the log snippet with the config.xml file added before rebooting, but it's too long to post...