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

From: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com>

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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Dan Wilcox
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