OS X V10.7 Lion :: Stop It From Opening Old Docs When Launch An Application?
Apr 16, 2012
How the heck to I stop Lion from launching old docs when I open a new doc in MS Word, Excel, Preview, etc? I HATE this feature. Twice now I've edited the wrong document because when I click on a new Word doc, one that I worked on last automatic pops up on top of it. This is a ridiculous feature! Also, I don't need photos that I looked at yesterday magically opening when I open a new photo in Preview. That can be embarrassing if is someone is looking over my shoulder, if you know what I mean. Do I need to make sure I close all old docs instead of just quitting. Is there a way to just turn this frustrating auto open feature off?Â
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iMac 27", Mac OS X (10.6.2)
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Jun 8, 2012
Whenever I launch Pages, the application opens pretty much all the documents I've worked on. I take care to close all the windows, hoping that they won't launch again next time I start the application, yet they do. I can't find a setting in the preferences or Settings to disable this behavior.Â
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MacBook (13-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 14, 2012
I close all my programs before shutting down. Since installing Lion, programs I used recently relaunch when I start up the machine, sometimes the next day. No, I don't have "Start on Login" selected for these apps in the dock. Another weird thing:Â I selected a Word document to open, the app launched and the last document I was in also opened, even though I didn't select it.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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Dec 2, 2014
I am used to having graphic files on my desktop, when editing one I would simply right-click and pick "open with" > Photoshop (which is always open in its own desktop in my computer). Now out of the blue, if I do that, it loads another instance of Photoshop, which is certainly what I don't want. I can have 2, 3, 4 Photoshops running at the same time and editing the same image!
I searched but all I could find is people wanting the opposite i.e. opening multiple instances of the same app.
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Mac mini (Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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Apr 20, 2012
So everything installed on my Lion iMac works absolutely fine. However, I recently tried to re-install Appfresh (an application updater), so I used Appcleaner to uninstall it, grabbed a new download, dragged it to Applications as normal, double-clicked it.. nothing. The icon sits in my dock, and the indicator pulses, continuously, but the application never appears. It's not in the Force Quit menu, and Activity Monitor has no trace of it either.Â
I thought, okay, something up with Appfresh. But I've since tried a couple of other apps, and a game (Botanicula), and the exact same thing happens. I've done nothing new in the way I've installed them, opened their .dmg files, and dragged the application into Applications, completely normally, but they all do the "sit in the dock and nothing else" thing. If I left-click them once in the dock, they vanish, and that's all I hear of them. I've tried Disk Utility to do both verify and repair permissions to both the disk and the partition, but that hasn't solved the problem. I'm running the latest 10.7.3 with all patches to remove Flashback, etc.Â
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Apr 8, 2012
I have a new mac. How do I stop all applications opening up when I first log in?
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iMac
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May 2, 2012
Changing the Safari preference does NOT work. Reseting Safari doesn't either. Should I custom reinstall Safari from the USB thingy? Â
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 9, 2012
Every time I log in to my account, all of the applications I previously had open start up automatically. This takes a long time and there is a reason I closed the applications when I logged out. Is there a way to stop this from happening? Also, every time I open up Quicktime, it also opens the past video's I had opened. This is also really annoying.
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 31, 2012
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Apr 9, 2012
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Apr 24, 2012
Preview has always been the engine that Safari used to open PDF in the browswer. Acorbat took over today for unknown reasons to me. How can I switch it back?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 17, 2012
I want my Mac to stop opening all previous files when,say, opening an application such as Word or Pages. I want I want my Mac to stop opening all previous tabs when opening Safari from new. I looked in applications' Preferences and Mac System Prefs
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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May 24, 2012
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May 28, 2012
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Jun 1, 2012
When I log in using Lion, Mail, Entourage, and ICal open on my desktop.I already tried unchecking the restore windows box under system preferences/general; sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. The only way to stop it seems to be to uncheck the similar box that appears when you shut down the computer, but you have to do it each time, and I think it doesn't always work either. The options features in the dock items don't seem to work--they're already unchecked, and the windows still open. I don't want everyone else in my family to see my mail as soon as the computer opens and it's really annoying besides.Â
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 31, 2012
I must have hit some funky combination of keys, for now my iMac, every time I open an application, opens the file I want PLUS the file that was last open in that same application. How do I get this to quit happening?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 25, 2009
I noticed that some docs I saved on my PC show up with the extension .tmp. Does anyone know how to open them or convert them?
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Feb 22, 2009
I only have TWO documents left over from my PC days and I cannot open them. I originally created them by using Microsoft Works, their Excel spreadsheet. I have tried everything, that I know of and cannot open them. What solution is there? I tried Open Office and that did not work.
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May 23, 2012
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 5, 2014
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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May 19, 2012
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 4.1
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Mar 3, 2012
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 10, 2012
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Mar 9, 2012
This didnt use to happen but now when I open Word or Excel it seems to want to open all the recent Docs that I have worked on as well?Â
Looked at all the preferences and cant find anything to turn this off or work out why it is doing this now when it didnt use to?Â
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Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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this can be done to the current 'space'.
Is there a simple way of doing this?
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Apr 4, 2009
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May 4, 2010
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Nov 25, 2008
How do I do this? I want to launch app 2 while working in app 1 without having app 2 jump in front of app 1, but others, such as Microsoft Office Suite for mac, jump to the front every time (namely excel) no matter what.
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