Mac reopens last file.

dvsone1440

Lion has a unique quirk of reopening the last file you had open in sketchup. This is particularly frustrating if you had a large model that has crashed as you can not open sketchup as it will just open and crash again. I have one file that every time I hit "close" it crashes (the file saves fine) But if I want to open another file I can't as it just crashes trying to open both files. Any workarounds? If I get it open I can quit the process, but was wondering if there was a way to stop the auto open last file.

This the issue I found in another post as "known Lion issues" the solution works IF you can get the file to close without crashing.

Models are now visible behind the Welcome dialog on startup and are remembered from session to session..

With Lion, SketchUp now remembers whatever models you had open in a previous SketchUp session and, on re-launch, opens those same models. This means that models can now show up behind the Welcome dialog, which is a change of behavior. It may also mean that SketchUp can take longer to launch and may potentially re-open a problem model from a previous session.

Workaround: close your models prior to exiting SketchUp if you do not like this behavior.
way to shut off the auto open

troypiggo

@driven said:

Hi

you can disable the 'Resume' feature for SketchUp from Ruby Console using

`defaults write com.google.sketchuppro8 NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false`

replace text if it's not pro8. [i.e. com.google.sketchup7]
you need to restart SU twice before it works.

to turn the feature back on use

`defaults write com.google.sketchuppro8 NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false`

same conditions apply.

john

Should the first one of those be "true" instead of false?

driven

Hi

you can disable the 'Resume' feature for SketchUp from Ruby Console using

`defaults write com.google.sketchuppro8 NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false`

replace text if it's not pro8. [i.e. com.google.sketchup7]
you need to restart SU twice before it works.

to turn the feature back on use

`defaults write com.google.sketchuppro8 NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool true`

same conditions apply.

john

driven

@troypiggo said:

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Should the first one of those be "true" instead of false?

well spotted, [but the other way around]
Edited the second code block above, true turns it on, false turns it off.
john
Note, once it's in your .plist file you can open it and tick the box for on.

dvsone1440

Sorry I am new to using the ruby script... just type that all into the command line?

driven

@dvsone1440 said:

Sorry I am new to using the ruby script... just type that all into the command line?

Sorry about that,
with the code block above use 'Select All' and 'Cmd C' [Apple copy]
open SketchUp go to the Menu bar, go to Window and select Ruby Console.
at the prompt use 'Cmd V'[Apple Paste], then

if your not using 'pro8' use your arrow keys to go to that text delete and change just the characters, e.g. delete pro for 8, don't add or delete any spaces.

once done hit Return,

to check, quit SU with a drawing open, reopen [should be same drawing], quit SU and when you re-open it should now be your default Template.

You can use terminal.app instead without the `` around the code, or you can open the .plist and add the info manually.

The other method for doing it 'infrequently' is use 'Cmd Shift Q' to quit SU or any other app, only effects the next opening.

john

wind-borne

This free preference pane allows you to choose which apps not to restore simply.

Restore Menot

Restore Menot (restoremenot.info)

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dvsone1440

That worked great... thank you.

caronte01

Thank you, thank you!!!!

This is the sole reason I moved back to snow leopard. This behavior is really annoying, and I didn't knew how to disable it! I now can go back to lion!

Cheers

s

troypiggo

I've found this annoying with other apps as well, like Word and Excel/Office. Since this thread, I've been searching around, and looks like if you go to System Prefs->General, untick the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" stops it from happening globally I think.

Szonja

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this thread. I just lost an hour to perpetual crashing on start up on my Mac. I've never used a ruby script before, so it was a big deal for me, but it worked! I had to change the name from sketchuppro8 to sketchuppro15

defaults write com.google.sketchuppro15 NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

driven

that shouldn't work...

google sold sketchUp and Trimble don't use it's name on the folders...

so for 13, 14, 15, 16 just change the last digit...

 com.sketchup.SketchUp.2016

john