Add option to always start with last used library

[Poison]

Hi,

I'm using Observatory as my personal astro photo library.
As I'm using only one library, I would like to open Observatory and it will start with the recent used library (in my case my only library).

For now I have to start Observatory, choose my (only) library and that is a little annoying. :-)

All the best,
Oliver

[Sander Berents]

Hi Oliver,

Reopening windows upon launching an application is a system-wide setting on macOS. Observatory is a native macOS application, and it also uses this mechanism. Open your System Preferences (Apple menu ▸ System Preferences), and change the state of the checkboxes I have outlined below. These are my settings, and on my system Observatory reopens its library windows automatically upon launching.

[Poison]

Yes, it works for me, thank you very much.

[Sander Berents]

The next update to Observatory will reopen the libraries automatically, regardless the system preferences. In the meantime, in Terminal enter

defaults write com.codeobsession.Observatory NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool true

This only has to be done once.

[Sander Berents]

This has been resolved in Observatory 1.5.2. When Observatory launches it now always reopens the libraries that were previously open.