Opening an app opens multiple files ...

When I select a file to open for example and Excel spreadsheet, Word doc, or even a photo in Preview, the programs will open the last few files that I had been working on or viewed.
I really only want the one file to open that I selected. Is there a setting somewhere for this? What am I missing?

It does seem to ignore the setting. I've run into a particularly annoying after effect. I sometimes work on documents located on a different server. If I am disconnected from the network (e.g., I'm sitting in the airport right now) and I launch Word, it desperately tries to find those documents from the disconnected server, providing error messages (that it can't connect to the server) and in the meantime, Word can't be used. After awhile, it gives up on the server and then releases control over Word. This process can take several minutes.
And, yes, I do have the "Restore windows..." option in the General tab unchecked!

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Need help with easy script for open / close app and move files

Hi,
I'm not a scripter.. never done anything special perhaps more complicated than /shutdown -s on cmd..
I actually learned ASCII C language on university but never used it in real.
I'm trying to create a basic script that perhaps you could help me or guide me how to do it..
The commands are
1) Close a running app (end task it or force kill it, I prefer end task it)
2) delete files from x location
3) run .exe app from y location
4) close that running app
5) move files from z to y
Perhaps adding few "wait few seconds" commands in between each, so the apps will launch successfully..
My first question will be whats the easiest script language to do that?
I tried VBScript but couldn't find commands for open or close apps.. also for controlling files..
And what commands can do that? I could google them up for better understanding no need for rough guide
And lastly, does it too hard? If it takes more than hour to make it (learn and process) than it ain't worth it..
Thanks alot ahead!
Jordan.

hmm 2 questions:
1) taskkill.exe causing me access deny error.. I used "taskkill.exe /IM softwarename.exe"
how do I get permission or something to fix that?
2) on the "move" command..
First, its a "copy" instead.. but I easily figured that out..
but more important is that I want to copy a folder.. with unknown list of way too long files and sub folders..
and all I see is ability to move a file..
Is this possible?
Thanks

Open and write to multiple files in labview 6i

I want to open multiple files in a single application in labview and write the data I retrive via gpib in the files

To create multiple files in a directory you can use the attached example.
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creating_multiple_files.vi ‏13 KB

IPad AiO app: Sharing multiple files/docs at one time?

iPad AiO remote app: I cannot share more than one file or doc at a time to Cloud storage, even though you can 'select all' the app does not seem to allow you to share a group at one time. Is there a work around for this?

Hello aqtpa33629,
Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
I see that you are using the AiO remote app and are trying to upload files to your Cloud storage. The "Select All" option is for selecting all files to delete, not uploading.
The app is only allowing one file to upload because only one file can be opened at one time.
Regards,
JERENDS
I work on behalf of HP
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How do I stop apps from opening multiple files?

When I open a file in many applications (usually by double clicking), the app opens a number of recent files which I then have to close. I wish to only open the file I'm interested in seeing.

The OS will restore any files that were open when you Quit the Application previously.
If you don't want that to happen, check the Close windows when quitting applications checkbox in the General System Prefs.
Or, you can quit an app with cmd-opt-Q which will close all the windows before quitting.

Opening multiple files with a single click?

I have searched this topic here and online elsewhere, but haven't gotten an answer.
I teach English, and I download multiple student documents to grade. I want to just open all of them and go through one at a time quickly... like a stack of papers on my desk.
I swear to goodness that I used to be able to select a folder full o' files and bam... they would all open in whatever app they were intended to open in. However, now I'm having trouble with this.
I have a series of items... some are .doc some are .docx and some are .txt
When I select all of them, only one .docx opens (and it opens in Pages because I have trained it to do this.)
If I select all the .txts they all open in textedit like they should. But I can't get the stupid MS Word docs to do the same. I am not sure whether to blame Apple yet.
I have tried Open With... Word, Pages, etc. but only one document opens at a time. What am I missing? I just did a perm repair and software update... nothing new under the sun.
Any ides? Please? Thanks!

There are a few ways you can open them:
1) Select all of the files and under the File menu select "Open"
2) Select all of the files and use the shortcut for open, which is command-O
3) Select all of the files and drag them to the dock icon of the app you want to open them with
You need to do these actions with the files selected and not the folder that they are in. To quickly select all items in a folder, click one of them and hit command-A (shortcut for "select all")

About opening multiple files at once (in one program instance)

While developing an Image Viewer application i realized i had to give it some functionality for when a user selects multiple images in a directory and presses enter to open them with my app.
Everything is going well except for one tiny detail:
The Windows OS believes i am trying to open several instances of my Image Viewer, it even alerts me that "Choosing to 'Open' 26 items at once may take a long time and cause your computer to respond slowly."
It then hangs for a few seconds before opening my app. And i am talking about only 26 items. If i were to open more, the time it hangs is proportional and for that time the cpu usage is as its maximum (in this case a quad core).
So, do you know about a solution to this? Or at least a workaround?
Ideally, Windows would end up knowing i'm trying to open several files in only one program instance.
ps: i already tried deactivating the code that loads the Images, even with the InvokeEvent Listener doing nothing, Windows takes a lot of time trying to open 26 program instances.

it should work the way she's doing it, unless something is broken in CC
try these other two options
1. select all files and press "Enter", they should all open
2. select all files and press the button "Open" in explorer Toolbar

Open and print multiple files from the Finder all at once.

I'm trying to research how to do this. In OS9 you used to be able to hi-lite multiple files (Word files for example) and just hit Command+P. This would automatically open all of the files AND print them.
I can't seem to do this in my OS X. Or can I? I can hi-lite and go to File/Print, but the computer is only opening but not printing.
Any suggestions??
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I don't know how to both "open and print" multiple files in one step. The ⌘O combination of course will open multiple items. The items remain selected so switching back to the "Finder" and dragging multiple icons onto the icon for "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Printer Setup Utility.app" seems to cause them all to be printed to the default printer.
Alternatively, a user's "~/Library/Printers" folder contains printer icons -- I'm not sure what they are exactly, but they represent the printers set up for that account. They function pretty much like the pre-OS X "Desktop Printer" icons so dragging and dropping multiple files onto them should cause them to be printed. It may even be possible to create aliases to them on the "Desktop" to recreate "Desktop Printer" functionality. But again, this won't open the files into their applications.

Preview and Texteditor open multiple files

Preview and Texteditor often open multiple files when I only clicked a single file. It seems to open one or more previously opened files at the same time. Is this a bug, or can I disable this behaviour somewhere?

"Restore windows when quitting and reopening apps" worked for me. However, it will not work for any apps currently open when you change the preference. Once you quit ans recopen the app, it should work. At least mine did!

I have a brand new macbook pro 15" with latest Lion.Can anyone tell me why, when I open word or preview etc that multiple files open?For eg if I open a word doc, the last 1-3 docs that I have worked on all open. why?

I have a brand new macbook pro 15" with latest Lion. Can anyone tell me why, when I open word or preview etc that multiple files open?For eg if I open a word doc, the last 1-3 docs that I have worked previously on all open. Can anyone tell me why?

You have a choice as to whether or not applications in Lion like Word or Preview (or even Safari) save and re-open previous documents or windows... just hold down the option key while quitting a program and when you re-open it you won't get the previous documents or windows when you re-open the application. You can see this by selecting the open program in the menu bar and when holding down the option key the quit function will change to quit and discard open windows. This feature in Lion is referred to as "Resume" and is great if you want to restart an app and return to what you're doing (for example in Safari re-opening existing windows and tabs from your previous session). You still have the option to close individual windows within an app before quitting and they will not re-open when the app is launched again.
This Resume function is not related to saving your work (a word or text document for example). This is handled by Lion's "Auto-Save" and "Versions" functions. See http://www.apple.com/ca/macosx/whats-new/auto-save.html
Hopefully this is the complete answer you're looking for.

Preview hangs while trying to open old multiple files

Hello Everyone!
After restarting my Macbook Pro, I opened Preview, it showed all the files I was using before closing it, but it was frozen. I checked the errors on the Console:
11/09/12 20:19:55,726 Preview[909]: SCNetworkReachability server not available
11/09/12 20:19:55,726 Preview[909]: SCNetworkReachability server not available
11/09/12 20:19:55,747 Preview[909]: socket(PF_ROUTE) failed: Operation not permitted
11/09/12 20:19:56,000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: sandboxd(914) deny mach-lookup com.apple.coresymbolicationd
11/09/12 20:19:59,708 sandboxd[914]: ([909]) Preview(909) deny mach-lookup com.apple.SystemConfiguration.SCNetworkReachability
11/09/12 20:19:59,721 sandboxd[914]: ([909]) Preview(909) deny system-socket
I researched a bit on the community, but the solution involved moving the com.apple.Preview.plist, and there was no such file in the Preferences folder, I tried searching with the terminal: ls Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.plist. But there were no results. I couldn't find the .plist files involving the Preview app. I checked opening the app with the Guest User and it works just fine. The problem could be solved if there was a way to eliminate the history and clear the cache of Preview, so that it'd a fresh start. I also tried looking for the cache files involving the Preview app, but there were none.
Thank you very much in advance.
Other information from the Console:
Preview deny system-socket:
Preview(774) deny system-socket
Process:         Preview [774]
Path:            /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview
Load Address:    0x10dc09000
Identifier:      com.apple.Preview
Version:         765 (6.0)
Build Info:      15-Preview~765000000000000
Code Type:       x86_64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [152]
Date/Time:       2012-09-11 19:50:01.769 -0430
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.1 (12B19)
Report Version: 8
Thread 0:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff8a67f356 socket + 10
1   SystemConfiguration                     0x00007fff852865bd __SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags + 717
2   SystemConfiguration                     0x00007fff8528b0d3 __SCNetworkReachabilityScheduleWithRunLoop + 1236
3   SystemConfiguration                     0x00007fff8528d713 SCNetworkReachabilityScheduleWithRunLoop + 107
4   Foundation                              0x00007fff86f826eb +[NSURLConnection(Loader) _resourceLoadLoop:] + 121
5   Foundation                              0x00007fff86fe0842 __NSThread__main__ + 1345
6   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff892cf782 _pthread_start + 327
7   libsystem_c.dylib                       0x00007fff892bc1c1 thread_start + 13
Binary Images:
    0x7fff85279000 -     0x7fff852cafff com.apple.SystemConfiguration (1.12 - 1.12) <921FC1D6-06E6-3F37-8AFB-8CFB14E10AF9> /System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfi guration
    0x7fff86f4b000 -     0x7fff872a7ff7 com.apple.Foundation (6.8 - 945) <0C972F73-0C07-3384-98F2-B176E0289494> /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation
    0x7fff892bb000 -     0x7fff89387fef libsystem_c.dylib (825.24) <16B6B86C-53EE-36E8-AC2B-4AADC1008098> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib
    0x7fff8a66c000 -     0x7fff8a687ff7 libsystem_kernel.dylib (2050.9.2) <F646589B-13F8-3685-8C17-92C77993AE86> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib

I have solved the issue. Since I couldn't find the files itself, I tried writing the defaults in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments {}
defaults write com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments ""
Those commands did not solve the issue right away, but after restarting the Macbook, I was able to access Preview again.

Is there a way to open the last file I used in InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop when I open the app

I want to create a shortcut (Win7) that will automatically open the last file I used in the above apps when I open the app. Is there a command line switch like /r or /l that does that?

Thanks, your point is well taken... It would be nice, though, to have the ability to sort a "Last Used" column in iTunes and select a bunch of apps to remove in one shot.

App.open options when opening a newer version photoshop file by an older version of photoshop, App.open options when opening a newer version photoshop file by an older version of photoshop

So, where I work, we have a script that handles all of our heavy lifting. This script is running on CS6, and all of the users are running CC 2014. Now when the CS6 machine opens a document with any type of vector object from CC 2014 it throws a dialog box asking if I want to flatten, cancel, or Keep layers. I do have DISPLAYDIALOGS.NO set at the top of this script.
I under stand scripting quite well, but I'm just not sure if there are app.open options to tell this to keep layers. Also, I'm pretty sure a try catch block will not work, becuase this dialog appears before the image is actually pixels on the screen.
When the script generates our web images I've tried to flatten the document right after its opened and I still see this dialog. Any help would be super appreciated.
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Maybe you can let her play on your computer where it may be easier to restrict what she can do, provided there's an OS X equivalent. Of course supervision is probably the safest solution until she is old enough to understand she shouldn't do anything that's not permitted. But then she'd probably be old enough not to need to learn her ABSs.

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I upgraded to 10.6.2 yesterday. I have 3 Macs, a 24" iMac (Late 2007), a 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro (Feb 2009) and a Mac mini (March 2009).
I tested the previous problem of opening multiple jpg files from the Finder, and in some cases they all open in one Preview window, but in many cases they open in two Finder windows. I see this problem on all 3 my Macs.
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ok, hmmm do you have any thing thats set to open when you login? if not what i'd like you to do for me is test it in a new user. create a temp acct on the computer and see if it does it there. if it DOESN'T then from finder select go>home>library>preferences>and take the com.apple.finder.plist and move it to the desktop then restart. if it DOES happen in the second user then please let me know and ill see if if i can find any thing else other than to reinstall snow leopard. if you do have login items i'd like you to remove them and reboot to see if it still happens.
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