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Solved Issue: macOS USB Still Power On When System Is Set To Sleep

I encountered a nasty problem on my Mac. The keyboard backlight didn't turn off when the Mac was set to sleep. This issue happened before long times ago. At that time, I had no idea and had to reinstall the whole macOS. It would take hours. It was my last move. This time, I hope to find another way to solve this.

pmset -g

In terminal, using

pmset -g

This would list the power settings. And I showed that "sharingd" that prevent the system from sleep. That was a printed job that waiting for the printer. I had a wireless printer that was offline.

Opened the printer and print out the job and the issue fixed.

Final

The offline printing job stop the system from sleep. That was a service of system and not easy to find out.

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