HT201732: Get to know the Finder on your Mac
Learn about Get to know the Finder on your Mac
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Jan 23, 2016 7:28 AM in response to JDHendersoby den.thed,Some things like App's and Finder windows can be trained over time to reopen in a certain place. However I find that even that is hit and miss after shutting down and starting back up.
The best way to maintain all window locations is to only sleep and wake the system.
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Jan 23, 2016 7:59 AM in response to JDHendersoby Lanny,What applications are you using? What kind of documents are you talking about?
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Jan 23, 2016 3:36 PM in response to JDHendersoby VikingOSX,★HelpfulAlthough the Preview preferences list has settings in it for open and save dialog sizes, it does not appear to have a setting for initial display location. Thus, one gets to drag the window to a new location if upper-left is a long reach. Or one can electronically disappear the window in its default location, and snap it out to center screen, as I have done in the following AppleScript. This was tested on El Capitan 10.11.3, and I am using a 24 inch display. Assumption: Preview window and image are open, whether on top or under other windows.
-- move default Preview window to mid-screen.
if application "Preview" is running then
tell application "Finder" to set visible of process "Preview" to false
tell application "Preview"
tell front window
-- preserve image size from {x, y, w, h} in bounds
set {w, h} to {item 3, item 4} of (bounds of it as list)
end tell
end tell
tell application "Finder" to set the position of application process "Preview"'s front window to {700, 250, w, h}
activate application "Preview"
end if