Terminal & .term files

Terminal seems to prefer the internal "settings" approach to storing terminal session settings. With Tiger and earlier, I preferred using many .term files organized in the Finder (docked folder menu) to access my servers. One server per .term file, which worked great.
Now, every time I open a .term file, Terminal creates a new "setting" internally, and this accumulates every time I open a .term. Looks like I have over a hundred duplicate settings now.
Is there a way to better deal with this?

Hi Doug,
I've finally had some time to play with this a bit and might have a solution. The new Terminal treats .term and .terminal settings file differently. Here's what I've found:
.terminal files are always added to settings when added. In this case you end up with host, host 1, host 2 host 3, etc in the settings list.
With .term file, if no chenges are performed via the Terminal application's settings it will only add it once to the settings list (so remove all other entries for the host in question and them open the .term file).
My problem was Terminal somehow changed my .Term files regarding the action on shell exit, it was Close window, but it was changing them to Nothing (end up with "Process Complete").
I was able to edit my .term files manually and change the shell exit setting to 1 (close window) and now the .term files behave as they did in 10.4.x. Of course, as soon as any changes are made via the new Terminal it all falls apart again.
More to come, as I play with this.
+R
Message was edited by: Ryan D.

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