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Close all windows with AppleScript
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CloseAllWindows.scpt
tell application "Finder" to close windows
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CloseWindow.scpt
＃ index 1 is frontmost window
tell application "Finder" to close window 1
@confluencepoint

confluencepoint commented Dec 12, 2017

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Close all finder windows

tell application "Finder"
	close every window
end tell

@yoland68

yoland68 commented Jan 26, 2022

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This doens't work for me, it only closes Finder windows : /

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Koze commented Feb 21, 2022

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Because tell application "Finder" means to work on Finder.
If you want to work with all applications, I think you need to take the list of applications and tell application to each one.

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yoland68 commented Feb 21, 2022

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Gotcha, thank you!

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