Restore windows's bad behavior

It's nice to have the option to have my mac restart just as I left it... except that doesn't happen.
I often have many open apps, like Word, Excel, iCal, Address Book, Mail... but with their windows closed.
For instance, the Word app may be running, but no documents are loaded, and its windows are closed. All I have is the icon in the dock.
So, when I restart my mac with the Restore windows option, all those apps restart, and all their windows open, cluttering my desktop.
Worse still, Word and Excel prompt me to load a document or start a new one. I don't want to do that. I want my desktop to restart as it was: Opening the windows that were open before, and everything else closed.
On Apple's website it says: When you restart your computer, OS X Lion pauses your system so everything comes back just as you left it. All the apps that were running reopen, and windows appear exactly as they were, so you can begin working immediately.
So, is that a bug, or just a stupid implementation of the feature which makes it unuseable?

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292785

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Lion: failure to honor the un-setting of "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" ?

I have noticed an annoying "feature" of Lion, and I'm hoping that someone might have found a workaround.
If I uncheck Preferences->General->Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps, some of my apps still seem to ignore that setting after a restart.
Here's a scenario which illustrates the problem:
Uncheck the Preferences setting mentioned above.
Open up a few Finder windows.
Open up a few Terminal windows.
In the Terminal Preferences, disable everything related to Window Groups.
Do a Logout or a Restart. Uncheck Reopen windows when logging back in.
Relog in.
Open one Terminal window.
After step 6, all of the Finder windows which were previously open before Logout or Restart will also reopen.
After step 7, all of the Terminal windows which were previously open before Logout or Restart will reopen, in addition to the single Terminal window which is manually opened after login.
The only way I can prevent this from happening to Terminal is to add the following two lines right before the final </dict> tag in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Info.plist:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
However, this has the undesirable side-effect of not showing anything about Terminal in the menu bar or the dock.
None of this used to happen in Snow Leopard, Leopard, or Tiger. Does anyone know how I can disable this unwanted window-opening-after-relogin behavior in Lion?
Thanks in advance.

To urabus. Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, this is does not work for me. Furthermore, even if it did work the way you said, it would not be a viable alternative for me.
When I hold down the Option key and select the Terminal menu, I see this: Quit and Keep Windows, not Quit and Discard Windows. If I let go of the Option key, this menu entry changes to simply Quit Terminal. Therefore, I don't even have the option to quit and discard my windows.
As I mentioned, however, even if I had the option you mention, it is not desirable for me. When I restart, I want the OS to properly close all my open windows in the same way that it did in Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger. It is not desirable for me to have to manually close some or all of my apps in a special way before restart, simply to cause them to behave the way that un-checking Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps is supposed to control.
Here is one reason (out of several), for why I don't want this auto-reopen-windows-on-restart "feature": some of my Terminal windows run ssh sessions to remote sites. It is a Bad Thing for these ssh sessions to be auto-restored after Restart, without my having to specificially initiate these sessions.
IMHO, Apple should offer an alternative to this undesirable behavior. For example, during the shutdown procedure which is part of a Restart, we are asked if we want to kill any open Terminal windows. The "Quit and Discard Windows" option could be offered at that point ... but it isn't.
Furthermore, as I mentioned above, this unwanted behavior also occurs in Finder.
Is there any option that I can set in my system or in the defaults for com.apple.Terminal and com.apple.Finder which would force an automatic "Quit and Discard Windows" on restart or re-login?
Updated to add second paragraph which explains how hitting the Option key when selecting the Terminal menu does not work.

"Resume"/"Restore windows" features

Dear members of the community,
I have the following issue with "Resume"/"Restore Windows When Quitting and Re-opening Apps" features on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011) running Lion 10.7.3 :
The "Resume"/"Restore Windows When Quitting and Re-opening Apps" features
fail to restore windows of various applications (Safari, Preview etc.) to the corresponding Desktops
on which they were before the system reboot/shutdown or application restart.
E.g. Preview windows appear on random Desktops after the system reboot
and on the same Desktop after Preview restart (that Desktop is the one on which I quit Preview).
The same issues exist on another, Administrative, account on my computer
(that account was created during the initial system setup and never used before).
"Number of recent items" is set to max (50) for Applications, Documents, and Servers in System Preferences.
The same issue was observed with Lion 10.7.2, and (most likely), the initial Lion release.
My MacBook is the only Apple computer I have access to.
Can somebody check if his/her Lion system behaves in the same way? Please.
I do use "Resume"/"Restore Windows When Quitting and Re-opening Apps" and, actually, find them useful.
Unfortunately, their behavior I described above becomes more and more annoying...
Thanks

I see some similar behavior as you. I expect that's just the way it is at the moment.
We should tell Apple:
Apple - Mac OS X - Feedback
charlie

Final Cut Pro X will not open: Asking to "restore windows"???

Hey guys,
I have restarted, updated and done everything I can to get Final Cut Pro X (10.0.1) to open and I keep getting this alert >>> PHOTOBUCKET. I have done nothing new to my hardware or software (other than apples updates) since installing it a month ago from the app store.
The alert keeps asking me to either "Don't Restore Windows" or to "Restore Windows" and I clicked on both numerous times and I still get the "Final Cut Pro quit unexpectedly" alert which looks like this >>> PHOTOBUCKET after about 10 seconds of selecting either option.
Any ideas? -Joe

Have you tried trashing your preferences?
Unexplained faults like this can often be fixed by clearing out FCP X's preferences (for some reason, they get knotted up from time to time).
Download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager (free, simple to use, and perfectly safe, both to download and use).
With Preference Manager, you can backup the Prefs first, then if trashing makes no difference, you can restore all your settings.
If you trash them and don't restore them, you will need to manually restore all your FCP X settings again, so it's a great idea to backup Preferences from time to time when FCP X is working well, then if they get corrupted you can ditch the bad prefs and restore from your (Digital Rebellion) backup.
Can't guarantee it, but it's worth a try.
Andy

My FCPX boots up and then says restoring windows and stays there and never completely boots. I've tried everything. Any thoughts?

My FCPX boots up and then says restoring windows and stays there and never completely boots. I've tried everything. Any thoughts?

Please state what you have tried - there's no point in people here wasting their valuable (own) time trying to help you, only to find you've already tried what they are suggesting.
Have you tried trashing your preferences?
Unexplained faults like this can often be fixed by clearing out FCP X's preferences (for some reason, they get knotted up from time to time).
Download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager (free, simple to use, and perfectly safe, both to download and use).
With Preference Manager, you can backup the Prefs first, then if trashing makes no difference, you can restore all your settings.
If you trash them and don't restore them, you will need to manually restore all your FCP X settings again, so it's a great idea to backup Preferences from time to time when FCP X is working well, then if they get corrupted you can ditch the bad prefs and restore from your (Digital Rebellion) backup.
Can't guarantee it, but it's worth a try.
If that doesn't work, move your projects and events (if you have any) to new folders so that FCP X doesn't find them, then relaunch the application. If it launches OK, there's a very good chance one of your projects or events is corrupt or one of the files in an event is corrupt.
Quit the app, then move one event or project at a time back to the original folder and launch FCP X agian - keep going until you find the cause.
Andy

FcpX 10.1.1. stops launching at "restore windows"

The last few weeks fcpX (mavelixk, 10.1.1.) had a lot of problems; very, very slow and a bad cursor-movement.
When I go from the event to timeline and v.v. it's a @&%^#. You can make a cup of coffee.
Importing from cam. did't work or bad; the event remains empty of half and somtimes disappeared totally or the clips (orginal media) were to be found in another event!
Today the final collaps?: after restaring iMac from zero and fcpX ofcourse to try to start clean, fcpX refused to continu loading and stopped shortly after the message "restoring windows".
I tried several times, nothing helps.
All other programs are closed, the clips are IN the event. (not linked to) I started a clean, new library with new ivent, the import seems to be as useasly.
What can I do?
(note: I can't open fcpX anymore!)
Thanks!
bruce
iMac from febr. 2013 with 24 Gig ram.

Hi Russ, it 's still not opening so I hoped your suggestion would be helpfull. (sounds better to me) but I don't see the layout folder there and also not in the librabry in final cut pro (below)
I hope you can see it in the picture and know a suggestion ?
In appl. supp i see this:
com.apple.TCCV (file:///Library/Application%20Support/com.apple.TCC/) with in it a negative red sing.
Does that help?
Under that is the map fxfactory with a numbre of plugions. (there are no more ands all legel) Is it a good idea to remove this map (with all plugin) temp. to another place to try fcpX or does that give me problems when I set them back?
thanks!
bruce

Lion: failure to honor un-setting of "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" ?

I have noticed an annoying "feature" of Lion, and I'm hoping that someone might have found a workaround.
If I uncheck Preferences->General->Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps, some of my apps still seem to ignore that setting after a restart.
Here's a scenario which illustrates the problem:
Uncheck the Preferences setting mentioned above.
Open up a few Finder windows.
Open up a few Terminal windows.
In the Terminal Preferences, disable everything related to Window Groups.
Do a Logout or a Restart. Uncheck Reopen windows when logging back in.
Relog in.
Open one Terminal window.
After step 6, all of the Finder windows which were previously open before Logout or Restart will also reopen.
After step 7, all of the Terminal windows which were previously open before Logout or Restart will reopen, in addition to the single Terminal window which is manually opened after login.
The only way I can prevent this from happening to Terminal is to add the following two lines right before the final </dict> tag in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Info.plist:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
However, this has the undesirable side-effect of not showing anything about Terminal in the menu bar or the dock.
None of this used to happen in Snow Leopard, Leopard, or Tiger. Does anyone know how I can disable this unwanted window-opening-after-relogin behavior in Lion?
Thanks in advance.

Try the Lion community, there are others with same and similar questions;
And, this is not the MacBook Pro forum, so might want to bookmark and find that as well.
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
http://www.apple.com/support/lion

Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps will not stay unchecked

I upgraded my early 2011 model 15" MBP to Lion and this new feature is resulting in lots of strange behavior when it comes to system start-up and when i launch apps afterwards. For now, I want to simply shut this feature off, so I go to System Preferences > General and I uncheck the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" control. If I then close and reopen system preferences, the check on this control is back! I have tried various forms of other work-arounds such as locking the folders on an app by app basis in the ~/library/Saved Application State folder for the apps that act wierd and it sort of helped, but nothing seems allow me to just shut this off globally and make it stick. Any thoughts on why I can't get the preference change to stick?

The Preferences selection simply stops the applications themselves from relaunching (previous state) windows when you launch them manually.
The log-out check box is for something entirely different. It stops the applications from relaunching, if they were open when you logged out, or shutdown.
There is no way to keep that second behaviour from occuring as a default. Apple will have to make a change in Lion to make the change something you can set as a permanent preference.
I use an automator script application to perform my shut-downs with one click. I have an alias for the script in my dock, right next to the Finder icon. The same script also "uncheck's" the box of which you are speaking.

Why restored windows after crash is with random order?

I use new windows for grouping taks and tabs in each taks. If browser crash then after restoring windows is in random order.

fractur wrote:
Why do you doubt that a particular driver may be causing crashes? This is not an unusual thing. Do you have any evidence or reasons for dismissing this (e.g. Apple's touchpad drivers are user-mode)?
Regarding the issue, I am experiencing the same problem. After upgrading the trackpad driver I started getting BSODs and other odd behavior.
Yes, it's an Apple driver issue, as are some of the audio problems Windows is having. The audio noise/corruption is being caused by Apple's wireless driver. Some users are reporting good results by replacing Apple's wireless driver with a downloaded Windows broadcom driver. Sorry I don't have a link but it's been posted on this forum.
I believe the OP mentioned several applications were upgraded.
"boot camp, track pad driver, bonjour and iTune"
pancenter-

When I login, all of my desktop items are gone, the "Finder" icon is bouncing and a message asking to restore windows is blinking but unresponsive. I can't exit out of it. What do I do? I've tried force quitting, and it doesn't get rid of it.

When I login, all of my desktop items are gone, the "Finder" icon is bouncing and a message asking to restore windows is blinking but unresponsive. I can't exit out of it. What do I do? I've tried force quitting, and it doesn't get rid of this message. When I login to my husband's account, this message does not appear.

Hey sunnyday7!
Here is an article that can help you address this issue:
OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3411
Additional Information
OS X automatically relaunches the Finder when it is quit. If the Finder is unresponsive, use Force Quit to relaunch it. Select Finder in the Force Quit Window or Dock, then click Relaunch.
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden

My Finder is going crazy. Keep getting a message saying it quit unexpectedly and asking if I want to restore windows, but I can't get it to stop. buttons don't work.

My Finder is going crazy. Keep getting a message saying it quit unexpectedly and asking if I want to restore windows, but I can't get it to stop. buttons don't work.

Something else you can try.
In Finder hold down the option/alt key while selecting the Go menu item. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.
If you want to make your user library permanently visible, run the below command in Applications/Terminal.
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
You will need to do that after any updates.

How can I restore Windows 7 to Bootcamp partition - not reformat the entire hard drive?

Hello Apple (Mac) Community,
I originally posted this question over on answers.microsoft, but no help was forthcoming. Hope someone can help me with a problem that's (almost) making me nuts! I teach graphics to college students. In brief: I run Windows 7 Pro 64 on a Mac Pro tower, along with Snow Leopard (OSX). Windows is loaded on one partition of a 1TB drive. The other partition is a Mac backup. The Mac OS is on a different drive. Everything was going swimmingly with both OS, until recently. Unfortunately, the drive with Windows showed problems and I determined that the HD was either toast or needed a total reformat. My Mac data was all backed-up. Now I wanted to backup Windows so I can easily get back to the relatively happy point of my Windows 7 experience (drivers loaded, dual monitors all working, etc.). I did some online searching and the recommendation was to create a "system image" of the existing Windows 7 install by attaching an external drive, formatting that to NTFS and selecting "backup to image" in Windows. I did that and also took the opportunity to "create a backup disc" on a DVD. (Windows recommended). Next I rebooted back to Mac OS and completely reformatted the problem 1TB disc to a single partition, zero all data, just to see if it would actually reformat. It all worked! So far, so good. Next I used Bootcamp to create two partitions, one for Windows. I then restarted using the Win7 Pro (64) install disc, reformatted the Bootcamp disk to NTFS (as required) and installed Windows 7. After all that is completed and all working, I next try to use the restore from image function while booted in Windows. I'm instructed to restart from the Win install disc, which I do. Here's where things get difficult. When I try to choose restore from image, at that point the installer asks which drives to I want to exclude... but does not show partitions, only full HDs. I do not want to reformat the entire 1TB drive. I only want Windows on the 120gb Bootcamp partition (which is already formatted for Windows BTW). I spent a lot of time online reading through articles with users having the same frustration.
So here (at long last) is my question: How can I either restore Windows just to a Bootcamp partition... using "Windows System Image" or if that can't be done... can I somehow import all of the settings, etc. from the "image" (image is on external HD) into a fresh Win 7 install? So far the "backup disc" also seems useless. I can't even boot to Windows from it. BTW Apple folks: the only response on the MS side was that some "expert" simply posted links on how to install Windows and restore... not helpful with my particular problem of restoring to a partition.
Any help would be appreciated! Hopefully some help that even a Mac user / new Windows user could understand would be better! Thanks!
-melt

WinClone 3 is OS X and saves Windows image it makes for restore - that should work but you will have to try and you would need to make a new image unless it also works with a native Windows system restore image. It is now supported and has come a long way.
http://www.twocanoes.com/
Paragon Clone OS works and does disk-to-disk clone just like CCC you end up with two bootable drives. But does not work with your setup. It would let you clone and move your Windows install to an SSD or another disk drive though and be bootable.
During its clone process it checks for errors which is very helpful and lets you know - something CCC and others should adopt more of.
http://www.paragon-software.com/downloads/demo.html
I wish for our/my sake you had re-read and rewritten the long 'story' and broken it into a brief list of facts we needed.
OS X
Windows
Backup (though external is much safer) and you want bootable OS X clones as well as TimeMachine
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553
There are a number of things to do like chkdsk and others as well as Windows DVD to do automatic system repairs and find out why.
AppleHFS - the abilty to mount and read HFS volumes can be notorious.
I would rearrange and redo your storage setup and how you use the 4-5 internal hard drive bays.

HT203477 My FCP 10.1 is freezing at "Restore window layout" I am running on mavericks and the layout folder in not in applications support... What do I do ???

My FCP 10.1 is freezing at "Restore window layout" I am running on mavericks and the layout folder in not in library/applications support/ final cut pro... What do I do ???

Had the same issues. For me, I found unmounting any external drives and relaunching FCPX worked.
Mavericks seems to have some issues with launching Final Cut, so its best to launch and then plug in any external drives - hope that helps.
Source - http://support-partners.com/troubleshooting-tips-for-fcpx-on-mavericks/
M

How to Use a System Repair Disc to Restore Windows 7

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Is it possible to restore Windows server 2012 backup to another physical hardware or virtual machine?

Hi
I have windows server 2012 which is my domain controller. It has 2 hyper visor virtual machine that they are 2012 too. I have an additional domain controller in another location too.
I want to know, how can I restore a bare metal or system state backup to another machine, to have a domain controller same as old one whit all the properties, rules and features.
Thanks

Hi Mehdi,
Yes, it is possible to restore Windows backup to a different machine with different hardware. This article, although written for Windows Server 2008 still applies in 2012:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/249694
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