[Ham-Mac] Lion Migration. Long..

John L Merrill johnn1jm at gmail.com
Sun Jul 31 14:53:14 EDT 2011


Stays unchecked for me.

John N1JM
On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Dave Wright wrote:

> 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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