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Disksomnia

Name: Disksomnia
Price: 9.99 $
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

4.0.3

27 May 2015

Utility that keeps local disks from sleeping.

Overview

Disksomnia periodically writes a file to keep any local disk awake, including those that stubbornly ignore Energy Saver preferences.

Waiting for sleeping disks to wake up can be a frustrating experience for DJs, video/audio editors, musicians, and motion graphics designers who frequently work with media files located on multiple disks.

What's new in Disksomnia

Version 4.0.3:

Fixed menu bar icon not showing on OS X 10.7 Lion

Disksomnia Screenshots

3 Disksomnia Reviews

Acuraice

29 September 2012

Most helpful

Both onyx and cocktail have the ability to set any disk's sleep settings,onyx is totally free!

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Version 3.0.1

Eric•Woehler

04 April 2014

Might be interested at 1.99 but not at 9.99. Looking at other alternatives/options. Don't have a problem paying a small fee to dev but I believe 9.99 for this is too expensive.

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Version 4.0

1 answer(s)

Istumbler

29 June 2014

OK, if all you have to contribute to a review is "it's too expense" you have nothing to contribute. Developers set their prices as the market dictates, sometimes that means charming more than you are willing to pay. The iOS app stores $.99 apps are only workable due to the overwhelming volume of iOS users over Mac OS users, those prices are not sustainable for desktop apps simply because of the size of the market.

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Acuraice

29 September 2012

Both onyx and cocktail have the ability to set any disk's sleep settings,onyx is totally free!

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Version 3.0.1

1 answer(s)

ASaracli9114

20 January 2014

Can you please tell me how you would use Onyx for this purpose, I cannot find the settings!..

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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?

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Version 1.0

2 answer(s)

MacUpdate-Lon

11 June 2008

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.

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Version 1.0

Funky-Cloud

29 March 2012

Please note that these comments from 2008 are now out of date. Disksomnia 3.0 has been completely rewritten and no longer requires or only works with Final Cut Pro/Express.

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