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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: How to auto close all Get Info Windows
Date: 10 Feb 2014 19:39:49 GMT
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On 2014-02-10, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2014-02-10, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You used to be able to close windows like that by holding down the 
>> option key and clicking the "go away" button. Now you can do CMD-OPT-W 
>> but I believe it closes _all_ your windows.
>
> Command-Option-W (or holding Option while clicking the close widget)
> closes all windows *in the current application* - just as it has for
> ages. There may be one or two exceptions by badly-written applications;
> but this is standard behavior for Mac applications.

BTW, lest someone get confused by weasel-boy's typical useless comment,
both Command-Option-W and Option-clicking the close box does close all
Finder windows in Mac OS X 10.9.x (and just about every other previous
release in recent history I've bothered to try it in).

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