Sublime Text 3 missing top tabs bar - sublimetext3

I recently moved to a new hardware and had to port all my settings from my old macbook to the new one.
On sublime text 3 I had two lines of tabs on my old laptop and only one line in the new one.
Top tabs level was with the directories that I have opened (like different projects have their own tabs), while the second line of tabs had each file I had opened from this directory (very useful). On the old macbook the top line with tabs appears when I open a second directory (so two tabs for 2 projects). On the new one just a new window is open for each directory I open.
New Install
Old Install
Currently all folders I open are opened in their own window.
I tried the solution that many people provided on the internet and added a custom setting for the "open_files_in_new_window" to false, but this does not work.
Both macbooks are running Sublime Text 3.1.1, Build 3176
Does anyone have an idea how to have the top level tabs back.

It is not SublimeText3 option but MacOSX option.
System Preferences -> Dock -> Prefer tabs when opening documents: Always

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You can also select file tabs at different positions in the tab bar by using Alt#, where # is the file's position - Alt1 for the first file on the left, Alt2 for the second from left, and so on. You can use CtrlPgUp/CtrlPgDn to navigate through the tabs in order, and CtrlTab/CtrlShiftTab to navigate through the stack of recently focused tabs.
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old file name stuck at the top of sublimetext

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Based on the screenshot in your image:
You currently have the file softmax.py open and it is stored in a folder on your desktop named machine learning\python programs\test\newyorktest\
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In order to fix your problem, select Project > Save Project As... from the menu and enter a different name for it. The location that you save the file in doesn't matter (it can be inside the folder of your project or in some other location), all that is important is that it has the extension .sublime-project.
Once you pick the new name, Sublime will immediately swap to using the new project file instead of the old one, which will keep your current set of open files, etc, and the caption will change.
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When I hit what appears to be a limit, attempts to open a file (by clicking in Sidebar View) will replace an already open file.
Is there a setting I can change or have I hit a working-as-designed limitation?
Environment:
Sublime Text 3 Stable Build 3103
OS X (El Capitan) 10.11.4
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You can override this default behaviour in your settings:
{
"preview_on_click": false
}

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Edit: Op is working on a Mac, I'll leave this in case any windows users are interested in this solution.
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The existing key for Sublime Text exists here:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Sublime Text\command
With the default value of (depending on version):
C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe "%1"
You could create a new key like so:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with Sublime Text (new window)\command
Then add the -n arguement to the default value:
C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe -n "%1"
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