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Disksomnia stops external disks from going to sleep. Video editing and sleeping disks are a bad mix, particularly if you have media spread across several external disks. If you've ever moved the playhead to another part of the sequence and stared at the spinning beachball while a disk wakes up then you'll know exactly what we mean!

Disksomnia stops external disks from going to sleep (including those that ignore the Energy Saver setting to stay awake) by giving them a gentle poke every five minutes when Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express is running. After installing and launching for the first time, Disksomnia is totally automatic and works invisibly in the background. There are no settings, no need to launch the app manually and best of all...no more sleeping disks.

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REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Final Cut Express or Pro.

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Developer:Digital Heaven
Downloads:1,193
  - Version d/l:1,193
Utilities:System
License:Free
Date:10 Jun 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
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    Jun 11 2008

    BRUCE_Y  also requires Final Cut (Express or Pro)

    Question: could this be modified so that it would serve the function of keeping attached drives from sleeping without the need for running/install of Final Cut?

    Thereby making it more generic, for folks who would like external drives to stay awake but have not Final Cut?  
    (Version 1.0)

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    Jun 11 2008

    MACUPDATE ADMIN  Apologies if you wasted your time with this. Yesterday I received the developer's newsletter announcing this new freeware, read it, and went to the developer site. It was not made sufficiently clear to me in the newsletter nor the developer site that this software required FCP or FC Express. The description and requirements have now been changed, thanks for the heads-up.  
    (Version 1.0)

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