Finder crashed recently and I had to force quit it. Problem is that now when I open something with it, all of the files that it had open previously (including the one that caused the crash) try and open, and it crashes again. Is there a way to force Finder to open (one time only) as a clean slate?
MacOS – force finder to open without loading previous files
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I'm not sure what's causing the crash, but there are certainly some cache files preventing it from restarting.
First of all, I'm going to guess that it is saving its application state (part of OS X Lion's Resume feature). To disable that, follow the instructions on this link.
Additionally, you may need to clear out a plist or two in your user library. Here are the instructions on how to locate and remove the Dreamweaver preferences files (plists) which are most likely causing the crash.
To your first question:
Open System Preference -General settings, and select following:
To your second question: (actually we do not like to have more than one question, but since they are related...) that is a Safari settings.
Best Answer
Try deleting the savedState directory:
When I tried running
killall -kill Finder, that worked, butopen -Fa Finderor command-clicking Finder's Dock icon didn't.You could also try to:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Finder.plistby temporarily moving it somewhere else.sudo dtrace -w -n 'BEGIN{panic();}'. There is normally an option to disable restoring state after kernel panics.launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Finder.plist. There is normally a dialog about restoring state after crashes, but maybe it's not shown if the program is opened by launchd.