Comments on: Discard Windows on Quit to Prevent Resume from Reopening Last Session in OS X Lion

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[...] if you’ve become accustomed to relying on autosave. This discarding trick has been around for a while, and it can apply selectively to every single Mac [...]

By: bill_blix

bill_blix — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:42:37 +0000

Depends on how you have your preferences set. If you’ve got the resume window box unchecked then command quit will ONLY give you the quit and open windows option.

By: TechFreek

TechFreek — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:54:33 +0000

Hey Mr. D
My Mac does the same thing. This is because we disabled resume from the System Preferences menu (see link below).
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/18/disable-mac-os-x-lion-resume-window-restore/

So, while everyone else’s windows restore by default, our programs always discard.

Hope this helps,
TechFreek

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:38:35 +0000

You can also get around this by changing the keyboard shortcuts on the apps where you want a different behaviour from the system setting. I have the Resume feature turned off at the system-level, but in one app, OmniOutliner Pro, I like to re-open the windows I last had open (similar to what previous versions did before they updated the app to fit in with the Resume feature).

To keep the windows on exit in this one app, I switched around the application keyboard shortcuts (in the Keyboard pref pane) for it to be:
– Command+Alt+Q for ‘Quit OmniOutliner Pro’
– Command+Q for ‘Quit and Keep Windows’

Therefore, I can just keep using Command+Q consistently across my apps and have tweaked the behaviour for just this one to keep the windows on exit. A bit easier than mucking around with permissions on state files, etc.

I’ve tested on Safari as well, but when I went back to having the Resume feature off, I didn’t need it anymore.

By: Fapster

Fapster — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:23:18 +0000

Finally! This is a must have for Safari and QuickTime Player, heh

By: Cam

Cam — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:32:45 +0000

indeed a great tip! I have the global option in sys.prefs. checked off, but preview, textedit, quicktime, pages, numbers – just about everything still opens all previous windows unless I follow this tip. Or maybe I’m confusing the concept of resume with the concept of reopening windows. Anyway, great tip! thanks!

By: @staticshokx

@staticshokx — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:19:49 +0000

this is a genius tip!

By: Mr. D

Mr. D — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:06:42 +0000

Hi. This is a great TIP, I began hating MAC OS X Lion because this ‘resume feature’.
But following this tip, it only appears: “Quit and Keep windows”…
Any ideas?