Comments on: Delete Specific Application Saved States from Mac OS X Resume

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:53:55 +0000

Yes it works in OS X Mountain Lion as well.

By: Callum

Callum — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:45:15 +0000

can i do this on other versions of the mac ?

By: Prasad

Prasad — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:16:57 +0000

Great tutorial. Thanks.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:03:01 +0000

This is the kind of that drives me nuts about apple sometimes. I have a 2g macbook. Often I have to quit apps to save memory and OSX opens the all up again after restart. JUST GIVE US CONTROL! not workarounds for geeks!

By: Jawed

Jawed — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:12:55 +0000

best solution for application that is not responding in Mac OS X is “Force Quite”:

command+option+esc

it worked for me!

By: Michael Johnston

Michael Johnston — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:57:06 +0000

The problem is that with many apps, Lion does not observe when windows are closed. So once you’ve ever opened a window, it will always open every time you start that app, no matter how many times you close it again.

This is incredibly annoying.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:05:03 +0000

Nothing above works for me.

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By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:31:53 +0000

I have followed the instructions for disabling the application saved status for Pages, as I usually have a million different documents open and I liked restarting my computer with a blank slate. Deleting the saved application status folder and disabling the resume function seemed to have helped, except in the instance when I have opened a .doc file and I quit Pages. Normally I would be prompted to save it as a .pages file, but now it just quits, then has the (unsaved) .doc file open again when I restart Pages. This is bloody annoying. If anyone has any tips I would greatly appreciate it.
Cheers.
PS. I’m sure this function (and many more new Lion tools) would work as it’s meant to on a newer machine than mine, but I’m not sure my poor old ’08 MacBook can handle it. I’m getting a lot of spinning wheel of death. Any other recommendations to make the system a little less sluggish?

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:42:29 +0000

How do you delete a simple PDF file anymore without manually throwing in trash? I love the POTENTIAL and the BOOT sequence with a live terminal… be great to get a linux or some over OS for these future trying times as I have had — OS keeps freezing, locking up or crashing. Apple suggests repair permissions or restart or shut down – sure the solution, right… I’ve looked into the recovery EFI and poked around in terminal – wish these things came with more docs to tweak and repair / fix issues like this. This morning was the first time I actually recovered to any STATE at all, all the other times it froze or keyboard went dead, nothing… well it restored it to ALMOST the same state – the windows were correct, and open apps but the files on the desktop were all neatly in a pile – and OH yeah APPLE if you are listening – none of the crashes would allow me, even after clicking or using a command – to pull up FORCE Quit – That’s a usually easy fix for many ISSUES without taking down the whole platform, not in LION YET… and the few times I got it to open, sometimes it would actually force an app to quit and sometimes it refused… and YES I have what’s suppose to be a compatible make model and oil change, I’ve had over 40 Macs and this system has STUD potential but is a 1 second let down.

By: Kris Morf

Kris Morf — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:14:10 +0000

Set the folder permissions to ‘Read Only’

By: Kris Morf

Kris Morf — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:12:20 +0000

You can set permissions on the folder to “Read Only” to completely disable the feature.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:58:16 +0000

I created an Automator script to move all the files to the trash. (I have no need or desire for any of the saved states.) My workflow is (1) Get Specified Finder Items – Saved Application State folder; (2) Get Folder Contents; (3) Move Finder Items to Trash. I saved this as an application and then coupled it with some restart and shutdown applescripts I had already created.

Thanks, by the way, for this article! I was going nuts every time my computer restarted and all of those programs were relaunching.

By: Stuart Rowlands

Stuart Rowlands — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:23:16 +0000

I disable this behaviour on an app-by-app basis, I find it useful (for some apps at least!)

Basically do:

chown -w ~/Library/Saved Application State/app_folder_here

I’ve written a quick guide here:
http://stu-bot.com/2011/07/21/lion-annoyance-5-stop-saving-application-states-on-an-app-by-app-basis/

By: Ex2bot

Ex2bot — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:53:38 +0000

I was thinking of a quick Automator script.