Comments on: Disable Resume & App Window Restore Completely in Mac OS X Lion & Mountain Lion

By: Close Windows When Quitting Apps in Mac OS X Selectively or Always

Close Windows When Quitting Apps in Mac OS X Selectively or Always — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:24:38 +0000

[...] the above instructions are specific to OS X 10.8 and newer. 10.7 only uses a slightly different approach and the setting is called “Restore windows” instead. 10.8+ ultimately handles [...]

By: Barry Shannon

Barry Shannon — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:27:25 +0000

Me too, have you found a solution to this yet?

By: Bryan Frazer

Bryan Frazer — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:15:53 +0000

I built a one bit computer in 1959. This resume feature is a real pain. This novice discussion is a red herring.

By: Bryan Frazer

Bryan Frazer — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:10:10 +0000

I run most recent version of OS Lion a macbook pro. I do not have the cute box “restore…….. in my general setting area or anywhere else. I’m using Office 2011.

I despise this feature. I have to close 10 out of date files even when I start a new workbook. I have tried every thing ever suggested and no effect. I am forever closing files before I start anything in Office.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:52:05 +0000

Thank you so much Alan Payne for the help, it works !

By: Alex Trekzow

Alex Trekzow — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:23:42 +0000

Thanks for the detailed instructions. I used a similar feature after I switched to Mountain Lion, and all resume features were gone (in apps and restarting apps after reboot).

Now I want it back. (don’t hate me for that)

What is the reversed way?

How do I reset OSX in such a way that it behaves as Apple ships it? I intend to use a command to disable resume but also know the way back. As of now I am stuck as I took some command from somewhere online and don’t remember which one it was nor the reset.

Thanks!

By: J Steven

J Steven — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:27:25 +0000

Agreed. This is one of the features I’m really loving in Mountain Lion. I often have to log out with lots of documents open and this saves me a TON of time in having to reopen them.

I bet you Microsoft will be copying this for Windows 9!

By: Razengan

Razengan — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:15:15 +0000

wow. If you’re “going nuts” over this cool feature (yeah it is pretty nice to have) then just learn to close individual windows, instead of quitting apps.

Just like in iOS, Apple doesn’t want you to worry about quitting apps anymore – That is SO last decade, seriously. That’s why apps can keep running even with no windows open (without hogging CPU/RAM) and you can even hide the active-app indicator light in the dock – It’s not like this is some archaic OS where the user is expected to help out with memory management and processor usage by manually closing apps all the time.

Just close a window after you’re done with its document and forget about it. How hard can that be?

The autoresume feature is there in case an app crashes or you need to do an instant logout/shutdown for whatever reason. Hell I actually miss this feature on Windows with certain apps (like Google Chrome’s “Restore Previously Open Tabs on Launch” which is unreliable when you have multiple Chrome windows open.)

By: imnskp

imnskp — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:59:47 +0000

I have this version too. I have the same infuriation problem.

By: KR

KR — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:08:44 +0000

Well just because you think “… Resumes is genuinely useful, plus it’s one of the snazzier new features that is heavily boasted about in OS X Lion” doesn’t mean that everyone agrees with you. In my experience it is just making my 1.5 year old macbook pro run like a slug through molasses.

Mac is just driving away their user base again by putting out junky software that makes their hardware run slow; just like iOS.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:04:57 +0000

How come there are highlighted words in the text (double underlined = don’t click) that are ads for other products?

That is totally not cool.

By: Jbone

Jbone — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:54:09 +0000

I’ve been an OSX user for a while now but Lion is really breaking my balls here.

I always loved OSX for how simple and intuitive it was.

They really messed it up with this move.

I’m just about ready to start looking for a linux solution.

Thanks for ruining what was a pretty good 10 year relationship apple.

Idiots.

By: Parasprite

Parasprite — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:44:55 +0000

Don’t quit the app with documents open, close the windows.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:56:01 +0000

It’s a ridiculous feature – I can’t imagine what Apple were thinking.. double click a document and it opens.. then all of the previous documents for that app open on top of the one you want.. burying it.. view 20 pictures in preview.. then later try and open a pdf and the previous 20 pictures load up.. who could possibly use this? I am grateful for now knowing how to turn off this awful feature..

By: JD

JD — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:10:31 +0000

Is there a way to stop Terminal displaying what was last used in a previous session too? Everytime I open up Terminal it’s printing out what I last did in a previous session.