Disable app auto quitting

Apple's Lion HUI guidelines tell us that "sudden and unexpected quitting of an application enhances the user experience".

This is by far, the stupidest thing ever to be declared as a standard from Apple.

I have machines with 12 and 8 GB of RAM and Apple thinks it will enhance me experience be auto quitting an app that takes up 19.7 MB of RAM?

This is not helpful. This is frustrating and makes having to use Lion an inconsistant and unpleasant experience.

I do not want my OS to be trying to outthink me. This is another example of Lion being a bad nanny state of an OS.

In the few times when I have to use Lion, the auto quitting of Preview and TextEdit is a repeat frustration.

How can this be disabled?

Mac OS 10.7.x

Posted on Jan 21, 2012 8:15 AM

Jul 12, 2015 10:14 PM in response to Alex Zavatone

Thank you Lemmy! I recently finally upgraded to Mountain Lion and this aspect of Preview was sure irritating. I took your advice and it works! I still wish a selection menu did not appear that I have to cancel out of... this is new with Mtn Lion also - I typically use Preview to take screenshots (I can just click on the image or pdf or right click it if I want it to open in Preview anyway) and having to cancel this menu is just one more hassle that slows me down- also the default "saving to iCloud" is a pain - I'm not using icloud and just typically want to save an image into a file or desktop for further processing. I am wondering why the default is always iCloud.

As somebody else said, this is a minor issue but wastes time... I wish Apple would consider how people are using the application rather than impose their own will on the user. It is a minor issue, but increasingly Apple in some ways seems to want to become the Evil Empire it seems - Microsoft used to have that distinction.... I hear that Apple plans to bar Google Maps from future iPhones? And ban all Google apps? ***? That will drive people to Android phones real fast - I can't believe they would be that Big Brotherish but we will see.

Oh well that is another issue. But thanks very much for your contribution Lemmy for the Terminal fix - now both Preview and Text edit stay running! Yeah! Your post is 2-3 years old and still has legs! Now if we could change the other two issues I have with Preview I'd be really happy!