Silly Question

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I’m trying to set 12.0.5 to start with the previously opened montage at launch.

I am not locating that option in the various PREFERENCES.

Maybe it’s in that big OPENING splash page but I have that turned off and can not find how to turn that back on again, either.

Would someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

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There are no silly questions…
Per the manual…
Do one of the following:

  • Click File on the menu bar at the top of the workspace, and select Open Startup Assistant.
  • Click the Open Startup Assistant icon [image] on the command bar.
  • Press Alt/Opt-Home.

I like the File menu option, it’s right there at the top. When you get that page open, you’ll want to check the box next to “close” that says “Show this dialog at WaveLab startup”. I do, and it’s not stupid!

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Thanks Mulholland! In my mind showing or not showing the Start Up page would be… a preference. I did not even think to look under FILE. No matter.

That answers my secondary question, which I asked because I suspected I might find the answer to my primary question; “How do I make WL launch with the window it last closed with opened”? I had this set up on previous WL versions without difficulty and I am not spotting this preference now in 12.

WL still has the decades old burden of needing to be quitted to purge the history when, for example, the printed file name is incorrect and undo does not help. So quitting/relaunching WL with the last open window automaticaly in place is the quickest way to recover and get going again.

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There is more direct way:

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You have to enable startup assistant. There you will find this menu. Click on “Recently Used Files” The “Recently Used Files” you see is a button and can be mistaken for a label.

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and click below on Do not show this dialogue again.

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If you cannot find the “Recently Used” button, open start up assistant again by clicking the box in the image below.

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Thanks for the help. It’s working the way I wish now.

I must say that, even with everyone’s help, setting this up correctly was neither straight forward to me nor intuitive. To check myself on this I opened WL9 and WL8 and I could not find the path to joy there either. I guess I have just been lucky that my previous settings have migrated along with each WL update I have installed over all these years.

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