In Snow Leopard, when restarting, the Finder would remember the multiple windows I had open before restart and reopen those windows. Since getting my new Macbook Pro with Lion, the Finder now remembers only one or two of the windows that were open when restarting. (And yes, the "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox has not been unchecked.)
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
You might check System Preferences>General Tab>Restore Windows When Quitting and Reopening Apps and see if it's checked.
Resume features:
Thanks for the reply, but I do have the Restore Windows box checked (see below). And the Resume features info (cnet link) only addresses how to turn the feature off, either selectively or globally. I'm simply looking for the functionality that I had with Snow Leopard and now seems to be absent. Maybe it's a bug in my Finder.
Which application are you talking about? I don't remember SL reopening applications with all windows previously open.
Sorry if it wasn't clear. I'm only concerned with the Finder. Since I typically close (non-Finder) windows and quit all applications whenever I restart the machine, I don't have much use for the function with regard to anything other than the Finder.
Regardless, I think I'm resigned to simply make aliases (alii?) of my open finder windows before shutting down or restarting, as I did before Leopard, until this gets fixed in future upgrades.
Thanks again for your attention.
Perhaps the follwing thread is an answer to your question: “finder windows not open on login”.
finder doesn't reopen all windows on restart
