• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Saved Application States in Lion

    Every new feature comes with its own troubleshooting as most will, if only eventually, have problems. Lion comes with a cool new feature where the state of each application is saved and when the application is re-opened the windows are just as you left them when closed, even in the same positions on the screen. This can be pretty useful with something like Terminal, where I often don’t restart the app for long periods of time because I want to see my recent history across multiple sudo’d users. When you open Terminal, the previous commands are grey, but there. But I’ve run into a few instances where an application crashed…