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.
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.
Run it on Snapdock — no card to start.
Deploy and run any workflow or automation 24/7 — no servers, no Docker, no YAML.