After the El Capitan update the friggin sidebar keeps coming up on pdf files I've saved and then look at using Preview. I can hide the sidebar after I open a document, but I can't figure out a way to change preferences to set the default for the sidebar NOT to come up. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
MacBook Air
Hey thanks for originating the problem and for the tip (User2000444) !
Worked for me too ! (although I had to first erase the plist probably corrupted by migrating all the way back since SnowLeopard and adding the commands in terminal:
cd ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/
defaults write com.apple.Preview PVPDFSuppressSidebarOnOpening true
As suggested by user2200044
(in terminal)
cd ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/
defaults write com.apple.Preview PVPDFSuppressSidebarOnOpening true
A similar approach without terminal worked well:
find the Preview preferences file by searching for com.apple.Preview
open com.apple.Preview with a basic text editor like textWrangler (free, I have no affiliation)
do a search in the document for the word sidebar
**For me this did not yield the PVPDFSuppressSidebarOnOpening term, in fact that term didn't appear to be in the document, however I did find:
<key>PVPDFLastSidebarWidth</key>
<real>216</real>
Replace the value 216 (or whatever number might be there) with the value 0
Save the com.apple.Preview document, restart Preview, and your thumbnail sidebar opening issues should be gone!
Thanks!
Preview Sidebar
