I want to close all windows and then have the Finder selected as the active app without having opened a Finder window.
I started with:
tell application "Finder" to close every window
I thought that as a first step this line would close every window if I ran it and nothing happens.
Any help?
Thanks
Any reason why you would not want to use the Finder's Hide Others menu item (option+command+H), and not write code at all?
Hi
I want to quit all apps prior to cloning which happens in the middle of the night. The QuitAll workflow in Automator does not work all the time as it leaves Adobe Reader open and sometimes get an error message that Adobe quit unexpectedly. In addition, it seems that the Quit All Automator workflow will not always quit open apps especially the active window. As a "workaround" I noticed that if all windows were closed and I selected the desktop and then ran the QUIT ALL it seems to work.
So I was going to add a script to the workflow to close all windows and select Finder then run quit all and add do not quit Adobe reader to the workflow to avoid the Adobe error and live with Adobe open.
Hope I made the point but here is a link to another post
Automator Quit All Applications
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Ok. Understand. I don't think close will quit the targeted application though in AppleScript, as that is usually reserved for quit. Will this link get you closer to your goal?
Hi,
The link doesn't work 😟
OS X - Quit All Applications using AppleScript - Stack Overflow.
It is not like me to send dud links. This should work. 😉
This quits apps and gives the same problem with Adobe.
I wanted CLOSE all open windows, then run Quit All Applications and do not quit Adobe. Not ideal, but decent enough housekeeping prior to clone
In the list white_list, add Finder, and your Adobe app. Then two repeat loops in series: 1) close each open application, except those in white_list, 2) quit every application except those in white_list. The last thing that you do is try the following to see if your Adobe application goes down gracefully.
tell application "Adobe" to if it is running then quit -- replace Adobe with your actual Adobe app name
Ideally, last app standing would be the Finder.
I appreciate your help, but as a mere novice I can't edit the script as you suggested. I use multiple scripts that I have either found or luckily got to work over many hours.
So, in this case I would need something to copy and paste. If I do a get info on Adobe, it is named Adobe Reader.app
Thanks
Close all windows
