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My downloads keep pausing when my display goes to sleep for a while! How do I stop this?

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I use a MBP retina and my computer settings don't allow it go to sleep. Yet, everytime I download something I have to sit with it or else it stop when I go away for five minutes.

I use a MBP retina and my computer settings don't allow it go to sleep. Yet, everytime I download something I have to sit with it or else it stop when I go away for five minutes.

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Out of curiousity, in your power settings do you have it so that just your hard disk is put to sleep if the computer is idle? I think I had a similar issue a while back on WIndows that was caused by that one setting. I don't use a mac so I am not sure if the same thing applies.

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No Sleep Download {web link} Prevent your computer from going to sleep when downloading files.