type="topic" style="question"

      id="power-lowpower">

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    <desc>Allowing the battery to completely discharge is bad for it.</desc>

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      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>

      <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>

      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="author editor">

      <name>Petr Kovar</name>

      <email>pknbe@volny.cz</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Michael Hill</name>

      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>

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<title>Why did my computer turn off when the battery got to 10%?</title>

When the charge level of the battery gets too low, your computer will

automatically turn off. It does this to make sure that the battery does not

completely discharge, since this is bad for

the battery. If the battery just ran out, the computer would not have time to

shut down properly either.

Bear in mind that when your computer automatically turns off, your

applications and documents are not saved. To avoid losing your

work, save it before the battery gets too low.

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