Preview opens previous documents automatically

Brian Gavin wrote:

So, we found one of the first idiots. Who mentioned anything about restarting? Or you never quit and app?

Get in line with the other idiots.

You have no reason to be rude (plus that's a violation of the Terms of Use here).

As posted above, via System Prefs > General, you can change the behavior when quitting apps.

As CT (and many of us have found), even with that changed, it is sometimes preferable to have windows reopen automatically after a restart or power off; there is a separate option when doing either.

What would be really nice here is control at the application level of this feature. I want to have an inclusion list or exclusion list of applications that use this feature. Preview it makes no sense. I have found it a bit clunky in office products too. Maybe I am doing it wrong.

I'm with you on this but you aren't supposed to quit apps anymore. Instead, you are supposed to close windows when you are done with them. If you do it this way, the problem is non-existant. Lion features many of the memory management features of iOS and as such, running programs are supposed to give up their memory or quit when necessary, automagically.

I admit I have not yet adjusted to this. This feature will work well for my wife who never quits any apps.

Type in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

to turn this off for preview only.

It appears that you can pick and choose which apps will have a saved state - find the appropriate subfolder in the '~/Library/Saved Application State' folder, delete its contents and then lock it in 'Get Info'.

- but Preview and Textedit don't have subfolders

heey guys!

i ticked all the boxes in general settings, related to reopening etc, to NONE.

But Preview keeps opening allllllll my pictures in Seperate windows.. its really annoying my computer cant handle this..

what to do ?

Are you for real?

ofcourse...

Soehn,

Thanks. I tried the Terminal solution and it works perfectly.

The next time you open Preview, make sure to close all those separate windows. Either click the red circle in the upper left or use Command-W.

I've unchecked the option to 'restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps'... but it's still doing it. Sometimes. (I'm at a loss to figure out why it sometimes does and sometimes doesn't.)

Any suggestions?

Thanks much.

-Ignolopi

(10.7.3)

Follow Mac Fanatic's instructions.

Went to System Prefernces/personal/general

Unticked box witn restore windows when quitting and reopening apps - worked for us

We di dput none in each of the boxes above then changed that back to 5 but don't think that is part of it.

I know you've done it but can only say what we did.

Apple seems not to get customers to test run their products, I mean people who don't know how it all works (us) and have no interest in how it works (us) we just want it to work as in their ad.

Another thing the lettering in ALL their windows like iCal. Addres Book etc is way too small. We have a 27" screen and practically live inside it when I have a health prob that means I have to sit back. Wonderful suystem but numnut designers and no real person testers.! That's my grumble. Cheers

!supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

But apple pleaseeeeeeeeeeee re-engineer this horrible app!

Here is the true solution.

Open Preview (all old annoying files open with it)

Quit the program using CMD + OPTION + Q (NOT JUST CMD + Q)

Re-Open the program. This will purge all current documents.

Then, to avoid this problem in the future, apply the talked about fix through

System Prefs > General > Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps