November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
| Tip 208 | Stop Automatic File Opening |
When you start a program, OS X will attempt to open any files that were open the last time you quit the app. This is either very useful or extremely annoying, depending on your personal preference, but here’s how to take control of this feature.
You can permanently deactivate this feature in System Preferences (Apple menu→System Preferences). Click the General icon and then check Close Windows When Quitting an Application.
However, if you want to temporarily deactivate automatic file restore for a particular application when you’re quitting it (so that it’ll open “clean”), simply quit the app using the Option+Command ...
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