Macbook Shuts Off After A Few Minutes?

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I have a Macbook Pro (OS X  Lion 10.7.5, 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5) and it's fairly new (about 6 months old). Lately I've been having this problem: If I leave my laptop just sitting there open, for a few minutes (about 10 minutes or so), when I come back, it will be off and I'll have to restart it, with the message "Your computer was restarted because of a problem" showing up when I turn it on. This has happened a few times before, but in the past week it's happened about 5 times. I usually just shut the screen when I leave it, but if I don't it just shuts off "because of a problem". It is always either charged or plugged in when this happens, so it's not a dead battery problem.
I don't know why this keeps happening, but if anyone else does, please let me know!
Thanks!

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You can set the delay period between non-use and shutdown on the MacBook Pro. It's not a random issue. Read the instructions in System Preferences. First open them up by touching the apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen and go from there. And I leave mine plugged in constantly. Letting it go to battery power will shut it down very quickly.

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First, try to fix your permissions, I don't know if you know anything about Mac.
Click on the spotlight, that is the search bar at the top right, and type "Disk utility", it should be the first one, click it. Now, at the left panel, highlight Macintosh HD, notice that a side windows open, almost at the bottom you see:

Verify Disk Permission
Repair Disk Permission

Just click on repair disk permission, it might take a long time. Once that is done, reboot.
Now, another thing is what type of app did you download last? Maybe you downloaded something that is conflicting with the computer.

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Macbook Shuts Off After A Few Minutes?

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