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Officially known as Safe Sleep Mode. This is the action a Mac takes to stores its entire contents of RAM onto the hard drive.

Officially known as Safe Sleep Mode. This is the action a Mac takes to stores its entire contents of RAM onto the hard drive, in order to resume a logged-in session before a low power event would completely power off a portable Mac.

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iMac does not hibernate anymore after Mavericks installation

I used to be able to press the power button on my iMac shortly and send it to hibernation. After the update to Mavericks though this ability has disappeared and now only sends it into sleep mode. What is going on? Help Please!
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