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July 12, 2015

P: Does not release Power Management Assertions on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

  • July 12, 2015
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On Save operation Photoshop creates an operation system power management assertion which prevents the operating system to go in idle system sleep mode during save operation. Good idea in theory! My Problem is that Photoshop does not remove these assertions when the save operation is finished. I have to quit Photoshop to remove these assertions.

I checked this on command line with the following command

macmini:~ alexander$ pmset -g assertions
2015-07-12 16:10:35 +0200
Assertion status system-wide:
BackgroundTask 0
ApplePushServiceTask 0
UserIsActive 0
PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep 0
PreventSystemSleep 0
ExternalMedia 1
PreventUserIdleSystemSleep 1
NetworkClientActive 0
Listed by owning process:
pid 19397(Adobe Photoshop): [0x0001c9720001012d] 00:01:42 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "background save"
pid 53(powerd): [0x000000070008012c] 162:17:59 ExternalMedia named: "com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted"
Kernel Assertions: 0x4=USB
id=500 level=255 0x4=USB mod=05.07.15 21:59 description=EHC1 owner=AppleUSBEHCI
id=501 level=255 0x4=USB mod=12.07.15 12:20 description=EHC2 owner=AppleUSBEHCI

PreventUserIdleSystemSleep means no idle system sleep any more until the assertion is gone. This Problem is new in Photoshop CC 2015. CC 2014 does not have this problem.

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19 replies

Ed_M
Participating Frequently
December 6, 2015
The latest Photoshop CC update has fixed this problem on my Mac. Thanks.
Participating Frequently
November 29, 2015
I see. I guess I will just have to quit CC apps to avoid screen burn. Bummer.
Inspiring
November 29, 2015
No, it has not. It sounds like you got the Camera Raw update (from a few weeks ago) confused with a Photoshop update (which hasn't happened since late July).
Participating Frequently
November 28, 2015
Photoshop had an update within the past two weeks, actually.
Inspiring
November 28, 2015
Photoshop hasn't had an update since late July. This will be fixed in the next Photoshop update.
Ed_M
Participating Frequently
November 28, 2015
Consistent with what I originally reported back in July (see comment posted August 11 above), Photoshop CC 2015 continues to prevent auto-sleep on my Mac Pro running Yosemite 10.10.5
Inspiring
November 28, 2015
It appears the latest update did not fix this. Photoshop still is blocking sleep. I can provide more details if needed.
Participating Frequently
November 26, 2015
I just upgraded all my CC apps, and now both Photoshop and Dreamweaver are preventing sleep. Yosemite 10.5.5
Participating Frequently
November 26, 2015
Just updated. Not fixed. Both Photoshop and Dreamweaver prevent sleeping.
Legend
October 21, 2015
This should be fixed in our next update. Stay tuned.