Mojave Finder Tabs Reopen

I think you used the right terminology, but I have never seen the behavior you describe (and, sorry to say, I still think it does not make sense to close a window and have it magically reappear).

At the moment, I don't have access to a mac running El Capitan or earlier, but

it does NOT work this way in Mojave or High Sierra. I could test later on my wife's Yosemite running mac.

What version were you using before?

Do not click the red button, click the YELLOW button.

RED - close window (might as well trash it, goes away, does not exist anymore)

YELLOW - minimize (=hide) the window (still exists, but is not displayed; tucked away in the Dock for future use)

Thus the yellow button minimizes the window, and clicking the Finder icon DOES open it back.

As I've said before, and I will say it again: it does not make sense if you click the red button to expect the window back.

I've been reading older posts in this thread claiming it worked that way in High Sierra, but I have just checked and rechecked and it doesn't.

FWIW, I explained this in another thread. In High Sierra, if you had a Finder window open with multiple tabs and then closed the window with the close (red) button, then clicked the Finder icon in the Dock. A Finder window with the same tabs would open. If you chose "New Finder Window" from the Finder menu or pressed "Command + N" it would open a new window with the default location and no tabs.

Personally I think it was a bug in High Sierra.

Yes, I saw you had written this. I agree that it is/was a bug.

I tried just now on my iMac (10.13.6) and it does NOT work this way. Maybe the bug was fixed in one of the HS updates. I would never have found it, because I am a command-tab guy and I hardly ever click the Dock icons 🙂

Unfortunately I only have a High Sierra 10.13.6 guest running in Parallels Desktop Lite so all I can say is I can reproduce the exact behavior described by the OP. It shouldn't work that way as far as I'm concerned and I was surprised when it did. I tested a Sierra guest and it did the same thing. In any case, it works "normally" in Mojave

Wrong. Ever since tabs were introduced, closing a finder window with multiple tabs via the red button retained the opened tabs when opening another finder window by clicking the Finder dock icon. This behavior changed in Mojave. Don't know if you call it a bug or a feature, but it is different. Personally, I prefer the High Sierra behavior.

*** wrote:

Wrong. Ever since tabs were introduced, closing a finder window with multiple tabs via the red button retained the opened tabs when opening another finder window by clicking the Finder dock icon.

What was "Wrong"? I said it used to behave differently before Mojave. Perhaps you could read my posts again.

It absolutely makes sense. That is how it functioned before and it was very practical. We were led to expect it. What doesn't make sense is to remove a practical function because of a philosophical ideal.

mungiguerra wrote:

It absolutely makes sense. That is how it functioned before and it was very practical. We were led to expect it. What doesn't make sense is to remove a practical function because of a philosophical ideal.

Agree to disagree.

I guess I will try this. I don't like that it's a workaround and you have to remember to close all the apps EXCEPT the Finder when shutting down your computer. But it's a good idea until, hopefully, they'll fix it back

teaotspp wrote:

I find it sad that this is the "apple recommended" answer. There is no solution. I mean...This feature was super helpful...why take it out?

FWIW, it is not an "Apple recommended" answer. Apple is not here. This is a users forum with users like yourself.

teaotspp wrote:

And later on in this thread, I found out that, from another user, that you can leave Finder open when you shut down your computer and then tick the "re-open windows" option. So then Finder will open with all the tabs that you had before.

And FWIW, the other user was myself.

No there isn't. Of course you could just leave the Finder windows open or minimize/hide them into the Dock.

WOW, You've never seen the behavior described here, unbelievable, are you really using macos? Because everyone is telling you it is the behavior before, it was like that in high sierra, it was like that in sierra. I can't remember the other OS before but that makes for sure quite a long time. You can talk about the right terminology if you like but common people will always say they're CLOSING THE FINDER when clicking the red x button. Anyway terminology is no big deal... What is big deal is now clicking finder red x button in mojave closes everything when older macos were always reopening multiple tabs... and WE NEED THAT BACK. At least Apple should add the possibility to add it in preferences even if not by default. Come on that's obvious!!!

Open Finder tabs were retained (reopened) after a reboot in all the versions of MacOS I have used since Mavericks (Yosemite, El Cap, Sierra, H.S.). Sorry to see that feature/bug go, oh well. Your "Minimize" suggestion only works for the current session.

THIS is a feature they need to put BACK into FINDER. I have to work with a bunch of finder tabs for big projects and always having to open them all... well you get the idea. How can we submit this to APPLE?