He's on 10.6, so it's not this: http://puredata.info/docs/faq/help-pd-crashes-on-startup-on-mac-osx-10-7

On Mar 17, 2014, at 1:26 AM, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote:

From: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PD] friendly reminder that osx pd-extended is still badly flawed
Date: March 17, 2014 at 1:26:06 AM EDT
To: i go bananas <hard.off@gmail.com>
Cc: PD List <pd-list@iem.at>


it's an OS thing, you can set it somewhere so it doenst open the latest files, someone showed how to do it here, cant remeber though :P

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