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Safari no longer allows me to reopen windows from last session

I often have several tabs open in Safari while I simultaneously work on different projects. After shutting down my iMac, the tabs would automatically restore on restart. Now (since El Capitan?) it doesn't happen, and the "Restore all open windows from last session" is greyed out in the History section. I can't find anything in Preferences that would affect this. Anybody have any ideas?

Alan

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on May 3, 2016 8:35 AM

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Posted on May 3, 2016 3:06 PM

I figured it out: the re-open option in Safari is not available when the "Close windows when quitting an application" is turned off in the System Preferences General window. Thank you for all your help!

Alan

BTW: My last name contains most of the letters in Lysergic. When I worked in the music business it became my nickname, even though I wasn't a drug taker.

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May 3, 2016 3:06 PM in response to ManSinha

I figured it out: the re-open option in Safari is not available when the "Close windows when quitting an application" is turned off in the System Preferences General window. Thank you for all your help!

Alan

BTW: My last name contains most of the letters in Lysergic. When I worked in the music business it became my nickname, even though I wasn't a drug taker.

May 3, 2016 8:46 AM in response to Lysergic

Lysergic wrote:


I often have several tabs open in Safari while I simultaneously work on different projects. After shutting down my iMac, the tabs would automatically restore on restart. Now (since El Capitan?) it doesn't happen, and the "Restore all open windows from last session" is greyed out in the History section. I can't find anything in Preferences that would affect this. Anybody have any ideas?

Alan


Safari Preferences --> General --> Safari opens with --> All windows from last session

May 3, 2016 9:16 AM in response to Lysergic

I would second pinkstones - I have the exact same set up


Please go to Safari - ⌘, to invoke preferences - and please post a screen capture of what you are seeing and we can try and help you troubleshoot


You can take a screen shot using ⌘ + Shift + 4 - thee cursor changes and will take a screen shot of the area and post to your desktop after which you use the camera icon to include in your post if desired


Intriguing name by the way -

May 3, 2016 9:51 AM in response to Lysergic

Lysergic wrote:


I can't take a screenshot in this case because to view the selections involves toggling which I can't do AND take a screenshot.


Click the arrow to activate the drop-down menu, then do Shift + Command + 4. That freezes the drop-down menu in place and allows you make a selection screenshot, like I did in my second response to you.

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