What is the sleep and lock keyboard shortcut for MacBook Pro?

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Sleep and Lock are 2 different things. How to do it in mac. It always goes to sleep.

Like if I have set a file on download and I want it to lock it but it goes to sleep.

Please let me know how to do it.

My research by now is given below:

given below option is good when you only want to lock your system but what when you want your system to hybernate

In System Preferences > Energy Saver, set "Computer Sleep" to "Never" In System Preferences > Security & Privacy, check the box for "Require password [immediately] after sleep or screen saver begins"

Confusing question... if it sleeps or hibernates, the download will stop. Set the computer to never sleep, then use Mission Control - Hot Corners to start the screensaver. — Tetsujin, Aug 21 '15 at 08:46
there are 2 things that I want to do as we do in windows Sleep and Lock Either i am able to make it sleep or lock. Is there a way to do both thingsn depending on the situation? @Tetsujin — Vikas Bansal, Aug 21 '15 at 09:05
You can't sleep it if you want it to continue downloading, you lock it by enabling the screensaver — Tetsujin, Aug 21 '15 at 09:35
See also Create a keyboard shortcut for fast user switching in Mac OS X. — Arjan, Sep 27 '15 at 08:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 27 '15 at 08:23

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Keyboard shortcut for

Lock : ctrl+shift+Eject (If your mac has an optical drive)
ctrl+shift+power (for the newer mac that doesn't have an optical drive)

Sleep: command+option+Eject (If your mac has an optical drive )
command+option+power (for the newer mac that doesn't have an optical drive)

edited Sep 27 '15 at 08:23

DavidPostill

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answered Sep 27 '15 at 05:12

ravindar

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Ctrl+Shift+Power puts the screen to sleep, which is not the same as locking (so, this is not the same as Keychain's "Lock Screen" option). To be prompted for a password when returning to the machine, one also needs to enable Security, General, Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins. – Arjan Sep 27 '15 at 08:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '20 at 18:30

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On keyboard, to put MacBook to sleep, I use

Shift + Control + FN + F8

answered Jul 06 '20 at 18:30

Andrew

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What is the sleep and lock keyboard shortcut for MacBook Pro?

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