How to disable Resume in Lion/Mountain Lion?

[David Polich]

Not that I'm on either Lion or Mountain Lion on my own Macs, but I
just spent two weeks programming MainStage2 patches for a client and
installing MS2 on his MackBook Pro running Lion.

I went online and found the Terminal command to permanently unhide
the User Library (still amazes me that Apple hides this by default in
Lion/ML). I found a reference on the Terminal command to disable Resume,
but it was accompanied by a warning that "some apps may no longer open
once Resume is disabled".

Is there a reliable, easy way to disable Resume, has anyone tried it, and
did it disable some apps? It's incredibly annoying...I had to re-set Audio MIDI Setup every time I booted the Mac, because it kept re-setting to its
"last saved state" which of course was the first state it was in when launched (no hardware connected). Even after connecting a MOTU Audio Express, configuring the audio and sound settings, and setting MainStage2's
audio preferences to the Audio Express, I would close things and shut down
the Mac and upon rebooting, I had to reset everything back to the Audio Express again.

A simple "disable Resume" App would be way cool.

[mikehalloran]

Shouldn't be necessary. These two ways work for me:

Head to System Preferences and select the General tab. At the bottom of that page is a checkbox labeled "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps." Uncheck the box.

There were problems with the above on OS 10.7.0-3. The 10.7.4 update fixed this.

If the above doesn't work, the following has always worked for me: Close the window before you quit the Application. Has worked for me 100% of the time.

I have not experienced your particular variation on this issue so, if neither of the above works, please post.

[David Polich]

Shouldn't be necessary. These two ways work for me:

Head to System Preferences and select the General tab. At the bottom of that page is a checkbox labeled "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps." Uncheck the box.

There were problems with the above on OS 10.7.0-3. The 10.7.4 update fixed this.

If the above doesn't work, the following has always worked for me: Close the window before you quit the Application. Has worked for me 100% of the time.

I have not experienced your particular variation on this issue so, if neither of the above works, please post.

Thanks, Mike! Putting this on a sticky now...