[Ham-Mac] Lion Migration. Long..

[Dave Wright]

Agree on that lack of memory for that setting...it should be "sticky".



On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Dick Kriss <aa5vu at att.net> wrote:

>
> On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Dave Wright wrote:
>
> > All I can say is that it works on my system. If I run text edit with that
> > checked, it will reopen old files...unselect it and they do not reopen.
> >
>
> I have the System Preference/General "Restore windows when quitting and
> re-opening apps" option unChecked.  I had Excel open to a worksheet, Adobe
> Reader open to my DXCC Award Credits Listing, Mail and several
> other apps open. I did a Restart without unchecking the Restart dialog box.
> After the restart, all windows, apps and documents came up with
> one exception. The Adobe Reader was active (on the dock) but did not open
> the document. Unchecking the Restore user option only seems to apply to
> open Apple documents and does not apply to apps.  When I use the Restart or
> Shut Down, I want OS X to close everything for a Clean start with the
> exception
> of the Login items in my user setting.
>
> The only way to get the Lion to give you what Apple calls a Clean start
> under Resume at http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html
> is to manually uncheck the "Reopen windows when logging back in" in the
> dialog box and this has no memory. My issue with Lion is the lack of memory
> on the check box.
>
> > And during reboot/restart/log off, I make sure I unselect the "Reopen
> > windows when logging back in" on the dialog to prevent all of the open
> > programs from reopening themselves, thus giving a clean restart.
>
> I agree but you have to remember to uncheck the box each time. It has
> no memory.
>
>
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Dick Kriss <aa5vu at att.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Jul 31, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Dave Wright wrote:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Dick Kriss <aa5vu at att.net> wrote:
> >>>> In my opinion, the Clean start option should have been a user
> selection
> >> in
> >>>> the System
> >>>> Preferences/General settings. Hopefully, Apple will address the Clean
> >> start
> >>>> option
> >>>> user preference in one of the updates. Until then we have to uncheck
> the
> >>>> box on each
> >>>> Restart or Shut Down.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Dick, that IS an option in system preferences.
> >>>
> >>> Go to System Preferences/General, remove the check mark next to
> "Restore
> >>> windows when quitting and reopening apps".
> >>
> >> Dave,
> >>
> >> That does not, repeat does not, work.  Unchecking this option was the
> first
> >> thing
> >> several of us tried and it does not give you a Clean start. I think that
> >> may have
> >> been what they intended but the implementation does not work.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> This removes the application memory and each will start clean without
> >>> opening all of the old windows/files/etc.
> >>
> >> Using terminal commands to reset the value also did not work.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> This is a system-wide setting....it is all or nothing, but it works.
> >>>
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Dave
> >>> K3DCW
> >>> www.k3dcw.net
> >>>
>
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