[Ham-Mac] Lion Migration. Long..

[Dick Kriss]

John N1JM,

Please share what you had to do to get the Reset or Shut Down dialog box to remain unChecked!

Dick AA5VU


On Jul 31, 2011, at 1:53 PM, John L Merrill wrote:

> 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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>> 
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>> Dave
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