I could not find this information in the help file or on the CocoaTech forum. If you use CocoaTech's Path Finder, the Finder replacement that has a lot of extra functionality that is missing in the normal OS X Finder, you may be browsing around in a folder with many subfolders, and wish to somehow "collapse" the folders you opened, to clean up the view.
Clicking the disclosure triangle of 100 open subfolders is rather tedious, so isn't there an easier way? I stumbled on a method. Here it is.
How to Collapse All Subfolders in Path Finder
- In list view, select all. Command-A.
- Press Option-Left Arrow.
- Sit back, amused, but don't do anything boneheaded like pressing Command-Delete.
And voila! Collapsed folders.
7 comments:
how to "de-colapse" that's the other problem ? :)
I see, yeah, that would be nice, if you could de-collapse to the previous state. -- Rick
De-collapse = Option-Right Arrow ;-)
Thanks, cool!
I've been trying to suss this out for years. And by years I mean 5 minutes every few months. Your solution is so obvious! Thanks!
- Don
Is there a way to make this setting "default"? In other words, how can I have path finder open with all folders collapsed instead of "remembering" where I left during my last session?
Best to ask the software maker about defaulting.
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