I highlight just one file on my desktop and double click it to see it in Preview. I get a second image from a PDF I view yesterday. Went through Preferences in Preview, but can't seem to figure out how to get to only display one image I select. It's done this before too. I highlight the image and double click and it shows me the highlighte image and the last one I viewed.
Mac Pro dual 2.66Ghz Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.6.3), 500Gb,2x 1TB, 3Gb ram.
That is a feature "Resume." You will have to read up on it.
We can disable it in terminal if it gets to that point.
That is a feature "Resume." You will have to read up on it.
We can disable it in terminal if it gets to that point.
I see. I didn't close the files, but instead quit the application. I had to close each window before quitting Preview. Otherwise all the files left open resume from the last time I used Preview. Thanks.
There is a over ride >SystemPreferences>General
un-check the "Restore Windows when quitting and re-opening apps."
This is because of the new Saved State feature in Lion.
What happens is every time you quit an application, its current state is saved - this includes what documents it had open at the time you quit. When you launch that application again later on, Lion will restore it to the same state it was in when you last used the app. So, when you double-click some PDF and Preview opens up, the first thing it does is restore to the state it was last time, which includes opening the document you were viewing last time. Kind of confusing...!
Easiest way to stop this happening is press Option-Command-Q to quit Preview, or hold down the Option key while you click on the "Preview" menu, then select "Quit and Discard Windows".
Next time Preview opens up, you won't have any of the previous documents open up.
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Yeah. A feature lol. Who on earth would want it to work this way? I closed the app because I was finished!
You can turn this feature off by going to settings > general. Then under number of recent items, set all the options to "none" and uncheck "restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps".
Which turns this feature off for all applications. What if you want only to disable it for one or several, but not for all?
leroydouglas points to a cnn article that talks about locking directories under ~/Library/Saved Application State or by creating a 'template' (predefining a startup state) and then locking the saved state directory created when you quit, but apparently Preview doesn't save its state that way, at least I don't have a Preview 'saved state' directory in ~/Library/Saved Application State.
I found how to do it in the Terminal here
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1203457
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Thanks for the info on this thread. I just started using Lion, and I thought at first it was the Mac versions of MS Office apps doing this, because I couldn't imagine Apple would come up with a feature this lame. Tonight I noticed Preview was doing the same thing, so searched on the Apple forums and found this answer.
When you double-click on a file to open it, this feature has the effect of opening the last file you edited in front of the file you chose, which guarantees you'll be looking at the wrong file. Extremely annoying, so thanks for helping me figure out how to turn it off. I can't imagine how this got past usability testing.
Hey Eitakatie
I see your post was 2011
now It's 2015 April but THANK YOU.. Setting to none solved my problem.. I couldn't figure it out. Saw your post today
NOW everything on fine...
Preview opens previously viewed files
