Since Lion; programs re-open previous files when relaunching programs!

Ever since I upgraded to LION - every single program re-opens previously viewed files when launched.
I canʻt figure out how to make it stop!!

Thank you!! I tried that earlier...NOW it works!

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Good day Jeff.
I am running most current Adobe Reader X.
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No longer able to open Illustrator files when in Review mode in Bridge.

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Anyone else having this problem?
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open another app. any help, please?
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I want to be able to save images with my own extension, and when they are double clicked in explorer my own exe will open and process the image.

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Since upgrading to Lion, applications are opening multiple files, how do I stop that?

When I open pretty much ANY file, the application for that file will open not only the intended file, but also between one and three previously opened files. Not sure how to stop that. Once I've opened the file (and the unintended files), any other files I open for that application open normally with no additionallly opened files. However, if I close the entire application and try opening just one file again, it will recur. I've looked in preferences for the offending applications, to no avail, and also in system preferences. This never happened with previous version of the OS, and only just started after I upgraded first to snow leopard and then to lion. This software behavior is quite annoying, especially with files that have been moved elsewhere, which tends to make the application hang instead of opening the intended file.

It's the Resume feature of Lion:
Managing Mac OS X Lion's application resume feature.
If you shutdown your computer you should get a dialog asking if you want applications to resume on the next startup. Simply uncheck the box to prevent that from occurring. Open General preferences and uncheck the option to Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps. You can also install a third-party utility to control resume features on individual applications: RestoreMeNot or Application State Cleaner.

Preview and QT in Lion are opening previous files

Ever since I updated to Lion, whenever I open Preview or QT, they open the last files I was looking at in addition to the new file I want to view. Why and how do I stop this from happening? The preferences in those apps don't have any settings for history, etc. In fact, QT no longer has any preferences at all! wth?

Yeah, that's one of the features of Lion. It allows you to go back to the project you've been working on before you closed the app. In some apps, it's great, in others a pain (Safari).
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Acrobat Pro not opening PDF files when I double click on them- It only works if I bring up the program-.

I've installed a trial version of Acrobat XI Pro. It will open the file if I hit control->open with->Acrobat Pro Luis: but if I double click on the document it only brings up the Acrobat XI Pro window with the "Open a Recent File", I've changed the "Open With" option on "Get Info" and still can't open the PDF files with a double click. Can anyone help me out? Thanks! LAGA

When I double click the file after Acrobat is opened nothing happens...
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How do I get Lion to automatically open downloaded files?

I have Word 08 for Mac and I download Word documents and pdf files quite often. In Lion, the files download and then are almost impossible to find. I don't know where they go and often I don't know what the file was named because the hyperlinks used don't always show the file name. How can I set my system to automatically open files I download like it used to do before I got Lion?

I don't know where they go and often I don't know what the file was named
Allowing your browser to open "safe" files is dangerous. That's how a bunch of people got in trouble during the MacDefender outbreak... the OS considered an installer file safe, since opening one does not run any third-party code. But many people mistook the automatic launch of an installer to be "official" and were fooled into following through and installing the malware. (Whether the OS still considers such installers safe I don't know, but regardless, there is precedent for "safe" files being used maliciously.)
In addition, if you aren't keeping track of these files that get downloaded, that means that your Downloads folder is probably getting filled up with all kinds of strangely-named files, making it difficult to find things in there and providing a good hiding place for other malware like MacDefender. If you don't know what's lurking in your Downloads folder, not only is that hazardous, but it takes up space on your hard drive with things you don't need anymore. I highly recommend changing your browser to download to the desktop. That way, you instantly see any files when they get downloaded, you can open them quickly and you know exactly what has been downloaded and will be more likely to delete it (or file it away) once you're done with it to prevent desktop clutter.

Stop office opening previous file

Hi,
I am using MS Office 2010 and I had just upgraded my OS from Snow Leopard to Lion. After the upgrade, I had observed that each time I open my MS Word/Excel, it keeps opening those previous file that I had opened before.
How can i stop this? I hope to revert to the old times where each time i open Word/Excel, it would be a new document and NOT it automatically open those previous files.
Pls advise.
Thank-You
Roy

Preview is doing this to me
- i unchecked 'Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps'
that didnt make the preview files all close.
- when i hold down option and quit preview, it says 'Quit and Keep Windows'
so i checked the Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps box again, went to preview and I was then able to Quit and close all windows. Did so, but they are all still there - open.
I even Quit and closed all windows, unchecked the 'Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps box again before opening Preview - but yep, all those jpgs and pdfs were still there
can anyone help me?

Since Lion; programs re-open previous files when relaunching programs!

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