Opening a Finder window with all of the folders collapsed. all arrow_down_small's become arrow_forward's

Questions & Suggestions
1

Is there a way I could open a finder window with all the expanded folders collapsed?

I’m talking about setting all the :arrow_down_small:'s to :arrow_forward:'s.

THANKS!

2

Hey Ed,

Not really.

You can probably delete all the invisible .DS_Store files and restart the Finder, but that’s more for troubleshooting that for normal use.

You’d do that in the Terminal or with AppleScript or with a utility.

cd <your_directory_path>
find . -name “.DS_Store” # just to look.
find . -name “.DS_Store” -delete # to delete.

I had to run this twice on my test folder to get it to work.

Restart the Finder by Option-Ctrl-Clicking the Finder icon in the Dock and selecting Relaunch.

-Chris

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Just checking something, perhaps too simple. You need to open the Finder folder that way? It is not sufficient to open the Finder folder in whatever condition it is in, and then collapse all the top-level folders (which is easy with “⌘a, {left-arrow}” — or, to collapse all folders and not just the top-level folders, “⌘a, ⌥{left-arrow}”)?