Re: A "feature" in Preview

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Ronni I believe you. :o) I had all the same settings though, and Preview still did it, Ive run it on both computers now, so I can't see if I can repeat it without working out how to "Reverse" the Terminal commands. lol. And at the moment, too much like hard work. And given the workload thi

Re: A "feature" in Preview

2012-02-13 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Daniel, I don’t know why you had to use Terminal to achieve this, unless I’m misunderstanding you. Since I changed both settings (quite some time ago) in System Preferences > General > Number of Recent Items by selecting 'Documents None' (0) and unselecting ‘Restore windows when quitting and

Re: A "feature" in Preview

2012-02-13 Thread Michael Hawkins
Thank you Ronda! On 14/02/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Bill & Michael & Daniel, > > In Lion when you open programs like Preview and Safari, your previously > viewed docs or tabs automatically get reloaded. > > This feature is system wide and not app specific. > You can manage or

Re: A "feature" in Preview

2012-02-13 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Ronni I've long had the "Restore windows when Quitting" unticked long before the Preview thing. I never liked that feature either, so turned it off with in days of installing Lion. So even though that's still turned off it (Preview) still did it. After a bit of googling a lot of people didn't

Re: A "feature" in Preview

2012-02-13 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Bill & Michael & Daniel, In Lion when you open programs like Preview and Safari, your previously viewed docs or tabs automatically get reloaded. This feature is system wide and not app specific. You can manage or disable this feature in System Preferences>General>Number of Recent Items by u

Re: A "feature" in Preview

2012-02-13 Thread Bill Parker
It did that to me with Acrobat Pro 8 yesterday after a shut down. ( S-Leopard) Not sure its Preview exclusive. After working with three windows machines (not because I want to) I am beginning to think we have made this world so unecessaraily complex that it has stopped serving us and apart from

Re: A "feature" in Preview

2012-02-13 Thread Michael Hawkins
I don't like it that documents I've previously looked at automatically open whenever I click on the icon for the document that I actually want to look at. There's a huge risk of breaching client confidentiality. And it smacks of the computer saying "I know better than you, what you want to look

A "feature" in Preview

2012-02-13 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi All Just thought I'd share this After using Preview for a while (in Lion), I found that I didn't really like the way it's "Recent Items" worked. To help explain it a little more. Open Preview, then go to the File Menu and look at "Open Recent". Fair enough,..it will list all the last few