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Apparently, having an external disk mounted prevents the system from going into some sleep modes, which will kill the battery:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1776




That could quite possibly be it, as I don't always unmount my fileservers when I leave home. I'll make sure to do that from now on, and might just write a script to handle it. Thanks.

I wonder if this same issue would crop up with the Amazon Cloud Drive.... It's not much more than a CIFS/NFS mount.




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