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Sleep and Lock are two different things. How can I do it on Mac? It always goes to sleep.

Like if I have set a file on download, and I want it to lock it, but it goes to sleep.

My research by now is given below:

given the below option is good when you only want to lock your system, but what when you want your system to hibernate?

  • In System PreferencesEnergy Saver, set "Computer Sleep" to "Never"
  • In System PreferencesSecurity & Privacy, check the box for "Require password (immediately) after sleep or screen saver begins"

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Keyboard shortcut for

Lock: ctrl+shift + Eject (If your Mac has an optical drive)
           ctrl+shift+power (for the newer Macs that don't have an optical drive)

Sleep: command+option+Eject (If your Mac has an optical drive)
           command+option+power (for the newer Macs that don't have an optical drive)

ravindar
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On the keyboard, to put a MacBook to sleep, I use

  • Shift + Control + Fn + F8
Andrew
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