You are deleting it to force OS X to recreate it, just in case it has some kind of corruption that is affecting whether Finder restores windows/tabs after a restart. If the file is gone, OS X will simply create it again. It is simply a file OS X creates for storing the state info about Finder. XtraFinder and TotalFinder are aimed at improving OS X’s default Finder application, while Path Finder is a total replacement. 'Free' is the primary reason people pick XtraFinder over the competition. Delete that file.Īfter deleting that file, restart your system. XtraFinder, and TotalFinder are probably your best bets out of the 2 options considered. Hit Enter, and you will now be looking at that folder. Now hit Control-V to paste in the file path you copied. The “Go to the folder” dialogue will appear. To locate that file, copy the following folder path: ~/Library/Saved Application State/ I didn’t need to do it, but it may help in some situations.ĭelete the following file: ~/Library/Saved Application State/ Something else I have seen recommended is this. This saves having to wait for your whole system to shut-down and each time you test Finder for this issue. Bravo, very good answer deek5, XtraFinder. If you use XtraFinder you can just go to its Tools menu, and click “Restart Finder”. XtraFinder is a free Mac app that adds these and other features to both the Finder menu and a file’s right-click context menu. Then restart your system to see if the tabs are restored. Open a Finder window, and bring up multiple tabs. The difference is small, but basically the developer just needs to recompile XtraFinder as arm64e for it to load on M1/M2 macs, because you cannot inject code of one architecture into a process of a different architecture. That is the first thing I would suggest trying. Finder is compiled as arm64e, and XtraFinder is only compiled as arm64. This seems to be working with and without XtraFinder managing the Tabs in Finder. After this my Finder has resumed restoring open tabs and windows after a system restart (and even after a forced restart of the Finder app). That will set the above-mentioned option to TRUE. What I ended up doing was issuing the following command in Terminal: defaults write NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool true ![]() ![]() But perhaps it’s possible for that option to be set to FALSE and now there’s no way to set it to TRUE from within the OS X Gui. ![]() I am guessing that since tabs were introduced to Finder, that option was removed. From what I recall, in older versions of OS X there was a preference in Finder that was related to having it restore open windows after a system restart. I thought perhaps XtraFinder was at fault, but even with that deactivated, the same issue occurred. I continue to use it, and prefer it over the more expensive TotalFinder.Īt some point-perhaps after upgrading to Yosemite, but I am not exactly sure when-Finder stopped restoring its open windows and tabs are a system restart. As some followers of Best-mac-tips may recall, I’ve recommended XtraFinder on numerous occasions.
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