MacOS – Prevent Finder from restoring previous tabs

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For some reason Finder always restores all my previously open tabs even after I've restarted the system. This is unnecessary for me and in just several days my Finder is really clustered up and I had to close the tabs one by one. There must be a setting to disable such behavior?

Best Answer

You have the option at Shutdown or Restart for whether or not to reopen windows...
though it does include whether to reopen Apps, too

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If you want only the Finder to not save its state, try this in Terminal

defaults write com.apple.finder ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES

You can revert the setting using NO instead of YES

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