I recently updated to Mojave, usually I use multiple tabs finder windows, after I close the windows it used to reopen to the last state (with all the tabs) when I open finder app on the dock. This was working in High Sierra. Is this a bug in Mojave or I have just overlooked a setting?
Thanks in advance.
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS Mojave (10.14)
I agree with all on this thread who've stated High Sierra behaves in this manner:
4a. Finder opens a new window containing three tabs.
I, further, agree with all on this thread who've stated that the behavior of #4, above, is different in Mojave, e.g.:
4b. Finder opens a new window containing only on tab.
I've found a solution that appears, at first blush, to work for me in Mojave.
It comes to us courtesy of the user Eagle on apple.stackexchange.com:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/100433/finder-reopen-last-closed-window/100435
Eagle states:
This appears to work for me when I perform my original workflow, above, items 1-4a.
Note that it also appears to reopen the tabs to their prior directory/drive locations, if present.
I had not tested that behavior in High Sierra; so I can't speak to that whether it's consistent or not.
Further note that if a tab showed contents of a directory/drive that has been removed/unmounted between Finder sessions.
Finder simply does not open that tab; but opens all other previous tabs that it is able.
I've not tested how this System Preferences->General change effects, or afflicts, other applications from session to session.
So, as you'd surmise...YMMV.
Hope this helps.
Cheers!
hgkjhbkjhlh wrote:
You can't say Finder behavior changed in Mojave. Using Alt-Option + mouse click on Finder and doing re-launch, Finder restores all the Tabs without any issue.
The bug/issue is when one uses the red x button to close Finder. Then nothing is restored
Actually I can. In High Sierra the Finder remembered Tabs when using the "red x button".
I am not sure what you are expecting.
Do you have a window with, say, 2 tabs, close it by clicking the red button, then what... File->New Window and expect to open with same 2 tabs? AFAICT it never worked that way, and I really don't think it would make much sense. There is a default for what new windows open at, and they are exactly that, new.
On the other hand, if you *quit* Finder, and restart it, it will, by default, reopen all windows and their respective tabs.
Please clarify.
FWIW, in High Sierra, if you closed a Finder window with open tabs, then clicked on the Finder icon, the finder window you closed would reopen with its tabs. If you chose New Finder window, it didn't.
Red X button should not close everything including the tabs and not restore them (hard reset/settings?). This is wrong. I have multiple tabs open and I use the red X button to sort of minimize the window instead of using the yellow button. Also to move it from one desktop to another. It is easier to use X button and open it in another desktop rather than using the moving option. Closing all the tabs every time that red X button is pressed is a hassle and creates tons of work to put back all the tabs. For now I keep Finder open all the time but I do hope this behavior is reverted back in future updates
hgkjhbkjhlh wrote:
Red X button should not close everything including the tabs and not restore them (hard reset/settings?). This is wrong. I have multiple tabs open and I use the red X button to sort of minimize the window instead of using the yellow button.
No, this is wrong. Minimize is one thing, close is another. When you close a window, it is discarded. When you minimize, you change its state. Totally different things. It makes no sense to try to force one to work as the other.
hgkjhbkjhlh wrote:
Also to move it from one desktop to another. It is easier to use X button and open it in another desktop rather than using the moving option. Closing all the tabs every time that red X button is pressed is a hassle and creates tons of work to put back all the tabs. For now I keep Finder open all the time but I do hope this behavior is reverted back in future updates
You can't move something that doesn't exist.
Closing a window closes all its tabs. That is it. Just like if you close just one tab, you can't move it anymore: it ceases to exist.
I also used to be able to use the red x button to close Finder and then when opening it again all my tabs would be back so I could carry on working where I left off. Shame that the finder behaviour changed in Mojave! Let me know if anyone finds a way to fix it! Cheers
The red button does not "close Finder", it closes a window.
If you quit Finder, and start it again, it will (depending on general settings) restore your windows. If you specifically close one window, it does not make sense to expect it will magically be back!
Sorry I'm only a basic computer user so have probably not used the right terminology. But before updating to Mojave if I had say 5 tabs open in one finder window and I clicked red x, after clicking the finder icon in Dock, all 5 tabs would launch back as I had left off. This only worked with multiple tabs in finder, if I closed one individual tab, I would not be able to relaunch the one tab. Hope there's a fix for this! Cheers
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.
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