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Stop Preview from opening last pic with a new one?

jnl1211

jnl1211

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So, I can not for the life of me figure out how to get Preview to NOT open the last pic I opened when I open a new one. Quite annoying because if I show someone a picture I don't always want them seeing what the last one was before that.

Is there any way to make it not do that???
 
jnl1211 said:
So, I can not for the life of me figure out how to get Preview to NOT open the last pic I opened when I open a new one. Quite annoying because if I show someone a picture I don't always want them seeing what the last one was before that.

Is there any way to make it not do that???
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Quicktime is the same, it opens the last played movies as soon as you launch the app. You can turn this off in Preference > General > Number of recent items.... select 'none'. Unfortunately this is a system wide preference and there's no way of turning it off just for a certain app.
 
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I don't think apple thought this though. Sounds great on paper, "it just dosent work" in the real world.
 
Use cmd-W the pic should not open. Try to get used to cmd-w instead of quitting the app. Otherwise keep the option pressed and quit it form the menubar, it should show quit and discard windows
 
No offense, but some of you guys should honestly just wait until Lion has been released for real. The NDA will be lifted and reviews will appear that are going to explain some of the new features in detail and will look at the reasoning behind them.
 
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freedevil said:
Use cmd-W the pic should not open. Try to get used to cmd-w instead of quitting the app.
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If you do this how do you get the icon to not stay in the dock

Just closing the doc instead of the app will make the dock get bigger and bigger
 
paulsalter said:
If you do this how do you get the icon to not stay in the dock

Just closing the doc instead of the app will make the dock get bigger and bigger
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Reduce dock size to accommodate apps. I personally like it, my apps launch faster as they are already running in the background.
 
freedevil said:
Reduce dock size to accommodate apps. I personally like it, my apps launch faster as they are already running in the background.
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not very practical on a MacBook unless I make it really tiny

If I am using an app then it stays in the dock
If I have finished with an App then it gets removed from the dock (except for the Apps I tell it to keep there as I constantly use them)

I see no purpose in something I use today and might use again in a weeks time, staying permanently in the dock
 
paulsalter said:
not very practical on a MacBook unless I make it really tiny

If I am using an app then it stays in the dock
If I have finished with an App then it gets removed from the dock (except for the Apps I tell it to keep there as I constantly use them)

I see no purpose in something I use today and might use again in a weeks time, staying permanently in the dock
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Then use the options provided to you to quit the app to disable resume on next launch. Problem solved.
 
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