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Having 30 or 40 windows of different folders open, is there any way to close all of them at once? I tried to relunch Finder, and I was happy for a second having no open window anymore, but it reopened all the folder windows again :-)

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Yes, you can use the shortcut ⌥ + ⌘ + W.

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Brilliant way, thank you – Ali Dec 11 '12 at 8:19
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Holding down Option while clicking the close button also works – waldrumpus Dec 11 '12 at 12:51
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A sidenote on this: Often such commands are not visible in the main menu if you just click it. However, if you press ⌥ while the menu is open, then the menu will change to view the alternate feature.

Another example:

File > Get Info ⌘I

File menu without modifier keys pressed

will turn into File > Show Inspector ⌥⌘I

File menu with ⌥ key pressed

once you press ⌥. As you can see in this image, Close Window ⌘W turns into Close All Windows ⌥⌘W as well.

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Great comment! Thanks – Ali Dec 11 '12 at 14:32

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