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Why does my Python script stop when I close my laptop?

Short answer

Because a script on your laptop only runs while the machine is on. Close the lid, sleep the computer, or drop Wi-Fi and the process is killed — there's nothing keeping it alive. To run 24/7 it has to live on a machine that stays on, like a cloud server.

The full answer

Why it happens — and how to fix it.

It runs in your local process

When you run a script from your terminal or editor, it's a process owned by your session. Closing the laptop, logging out, or losing power ends the session and the process with it.

A schedule doesn't help if the machine sleeps

Even a local cron job or Task Scheduler entry only fires while the computer is awake and on. Overnight and weekend runs quietly get skipped.

The fix: run it on a cloud machine

Upload the script to Snapdock. It runs on a cloud machine on a schedule, independent of your laptop — so a 6am sync fires at 6am whether or not you're awake, and you get a plain-English summary of every run.

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