How Can I Get Text Edit To Restore It's Previous Work Space?

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How Can I Get Text Edit To Restore It's Previous Work Space?

I was having some buggy behavior on my MBP, and finally had to do a fresh install of OSX.

I was using 10.8.2 on the old setup, and the same now in the fresh install.

In order to NOT import any settings that were causing the bad behavior, I only migrated in my Applications.

On my old system, (before the fresh install) when I quit TextEdit I did not have to save any of the open docs, they would just be there as I left them restored when I relaunched it.

Now when I try to quit it asks me if I want to save the untitled docs, or lose them.

And now, when I launch the app, it opens a new blank text window.

I would really like TextEdit to automatically open all the previously opened documents, and not ask to save them.

Any advice?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 2011 17" 240gb SSD (750gb optibay)

Posted on Sep 28, 2012 6:36 PM

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richisgame Author

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Sep 29, 2012 8:13 PM in response to richisgame

It was staring me, well, in the face.

System Preferences: General

I'm actually kinda' embarrased... But then again, no one else had the answer either!

As a side note, the way I got to finally figuring it out, was when I launched Safari directly, it would restore the previous workspace.

But, when Safari would launch from a link in Mail, it would only open that single page, and I had to restore the workspace manually.

I then realized it was more system wide, which lead me to System Preferences!

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