You can also do a clean shut-down by quitting all applications and then going
into the Apple menu and choosing "shut down". You will get a dialog asking you
to confirm. Just press enter, which will press the default button, which is
"shut down".
HtH,
Teresa
"We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan
On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:39 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
> Hello Don,
>
> I put my Mac into sleep mode at night and very rarely shut it down. However,
> VO-Cmd-Eject is the best way to shut it down. It's all to easy to hold down
> the Power key for too long and shut the Mac down brutally without it having
> the chance to close down tidily.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
> On 6 Jun 2014, at 07:22, don bishop <w6...@donbishop.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I assume most people turn their mac off at night rather than just putting it
>> into sleep mode. Right?
>> If you do turn it off, how do you do it? I turn mine off using vo command
>> eject. I purchased the learning the mac discussed a few days back, and in
>> there she says to press the power button for about 3 seconds to shut down.
>>
>> Is one method any better than the other?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Don
>>
>>
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