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Since upgrading to Mavericks, Preview frequently (but not always) opens pdf's in an already open window. The preferences are set to open each pdf in its own window, but that is being ignored. If I could easily separate them, it would not be such a problem, but I can't find a way to do that. How do I fix this annoying bug? Thanks
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
Hey everybody, I too have been plagued by this bug for YEARS. Today, I figured out the issue. Lets say you have a directory with 10 files in it. You drag all 10 to Preview icon. 6 open in the same window, 4 open in another. Now, open Terminal and navigate to your directory. Type "ls -lah". In the left column, you will see some files have an "@" sign after their permissions entry. This means they have extended attributes. For whatever reason, these files are treated as a separate drag and drop operation, hence they open in their own window. For the affected files, you need to strip the extended attributes, using "xattr -c file.jpg". Voila.
Boot into Safe Mode, Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode, and try there. If it works as you want reboot normally and try again.
Have you gone to Preview/Preferences/General and set it as shown in the screen shot above?
Yes
Thank you! I will try this today.
You are welcome. I hope it works because I'm running out of ideas.
Hi guys,
Since upgrading to High Sierra, seems like this option disappeared,
How can we solve it ? As for day-to-day work it is much easier to open several PDF files in the same window.
Thank you.
Preview opens multiple pdf's in same window
