RobertLFH Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 Preferences are set so that after automatic backup, the computer should shut down. It doesn't. Ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buachille Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 i had this set in the past, on windows xp pro, and it never worked once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertLFH Posted January 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Thanks, Buachille - not exactly what I wanted to here, but at least I'm not alone. I'm in Windows XP Pro too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHnee Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Hi, If set correctly Retrospect should be shutting down your machine when execution is complete and no other scripts are scheduled to run within the Look Ahead time. So, maybe you have other scripts scheduled to run within the Look Ahead time? You can change this time under Configure, Preferences, Schedule. Hope this helps. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertLFH Posted January 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 Thanks for that, Mike - the trouble is that it is set up that way, so should shut down but doesn't. When I open up Retrospect, the drop down at the top of the screen is set to "Stay in Retrospect", but even if I change this to "Shut down", it doesn't as the next script is coming within the scheduled period. However, when it runs it still does not shut down. As you will have seen, someone else has had the same trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHnee Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 How much Look Ahead time have you set? If a script is scheduled to start within that time then Retrospect will not shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertLFH Posted January 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 Thanks everyone for your help, but happily I've cracked. No.1 son works in IT and research has revealed that there was something wrong in one of the Windows XP updates, so that programmes trying to shut down the computer fail. I tried it with the virus hunter programme I have and that did not shut down either. My son therefore wrote a short batch file for me, which I then used task scheduler to run at 22:15 each day. And hey presto, it shuts down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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