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how to change default in the Shut Down dialog?

I posted this in the Safari forum with regards to disabling Resume, but I'm thinking an answer is more likely to be forthcoming here. Apologies for cross posting.

As people are discovering, you cant' disable Resume completely by unchecking the option Pref > General > Restore windows when quitting apps.

Even with this unchecked, Resume will still re-open any apps that you didn't manually quit before shutdown. In order to stop Lion re-opening all your running apps at Shutdown time, you have to uncheck this box:

However, you have to remember to do this EVERY time because the default behaviour is to have it checked (even if you unchecked it last time round). What I would like to know is how to change the default behaviour so this box comes up unchecked by default. Presumably there must be something I can do in Terminal that will change this? Anyone know?

Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.7), 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Posted on Jul 25, 2011 1:07 AM

34 replies

Sep 14, 2011 7:14 AM in response to softwater

Yes, positive. The file is locked, but I still get all the same windows up as before. Perhaps that info is cached somewhere...

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Sep 14, 2011 7:27 AM in response to coocooforcocoapuffs

Perhaps that info is cached somewhere...

For sure, it must be... 😉

But my impression was that that somewhere was the plist file (my impression based on the fact the solutions works on my computer, and I haven't disabled anything else).

What happens if you unlock that file, close all your windows and apps, lock it again. Open a window or two (not Finder), then reboot?

Sep 15, 2011 3:16 AM in response to softwater

Same thing happens here. There is a lockfile.plist, perhaps that stores the info? I was thinking about deleting both plists and trying, but can't be bothered. I don't mind this feature as I work from home, and on my laptop it's a good thing when i am out, as it means i've had to reboot in the middle of giving a presentation.

Apps that seem to want to always come up are mail and fontcase, to mention 2...

cheers!

coocoo

Nov 20, 2011 1:54 PM in response to softwater

That's good. Didn't work for me. especially with Mail and firefox.

This did: http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/25/disable-reopen-windows-when-logging-back-in-in-ma c-os-x-lion-completely/

how to change default in the Shut Down dialog?