Sleepy dongles

[Peter Aretin]

I've been experimenting with High Sierra 10.13.3 by installing it on a bootable partition. One peculiarity: Wireless keyboard and mouse quit working after sleep. The little USB dongles must be unplugged and plugged back in to restore function. Any workaround? Anyone else notice this?

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello,

-Which model Mac?
-Is the bootable partition on your internal drive, or an external?
-USB dongles - what brand(s)/model(s) are the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse?

C

 

[Peter Aretin]

Hello,

-Which model Mac?
-Is the bootable partition on your internal drive, or an external?
-USB dongles - what brand(s)/model(s) are the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse?

C

It's a mid-2010 macmini, with a logitech wireless keyboard and an Amazon wireless mouse. This doesn't happen consistently, so perhaps it's not a serious problem. Chrome sometimes becomes unresponsive during sleep with High Sierra. This is a bootable partition on an external drive. I never upgrade my main boot drive until I've used a new OS for some time. Even then I maintain bootable partitions with previous OS iterations. I still have to use Snow Leopard for some things, and even keep a powerPC running Tiger to run the occasional legacy app.

Alas, the keyboard is OK, but it's not a Mac keyboard and it produces apostrophes that look OK in Mail, but recipients see � .