[MacTUG] Managing Mac OS X Lion's application resume feature | MacFixIt <- How about this one Don?

[Steve Hellyer]

Lion will also quit apps after a period of time which have no open windows and have been left dormant in background.
Not sure period of time at this moment. We were thinking of you Don. :-)

Automatic and Sudden Termination of Applications Improve the User Experience
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/General/Conceptual/MOSXAppProgrammingGuide/CoreAppDesign/CoreAppDesign.html

Hence sure I would suggest locking save state folders. You might get bitten by apps that support this feature.

Steve

On 2011-08-10, at 2:56 PM, Donald Duff-McCracken wrote:

> I think the reason it does not bother me is that I usually do not
> quit apps until I am sure I am done with it. That is likely why I have a
> million apps running at the end of the day and why I am bugged by the
> second form of resume, hahaŠ



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