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Expand multiple folders in list view mode Desktop
We all know that you can option-click the folder triangle in list view to expand the selected folder and all its sub-folders at once.

What I recently discovered is that if you select one or multiple folders and hit the right arrow key (at least on my Powerbook's keyboard), the one or multiple folders expand one level. Then hit the left arrow key and the one or multiple folders collapse.

You can also take this a step further and hold the option key with either of the arrows. You'll reproduce the expand/collapse a folder and its subfolders like the option-click trick, but you can extend this expansion/collapse to multiple selected folders.
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Expand multiple folders in list view mode
Authored by: monickels on Feb 24, '03 12:33:51PM

This behavior is consistent with OS 9.

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Expand multiple folders in list view mode
Authored by: altglbrs on Feb 24, '03 02:03:20PM

Holding down command, option, control and shift when pressing the right arrow seem to add additional layers to the expansion for each key. Silly me, i tried it on our image library.. expanding 4 levels yielded a Finder window with tens of thousands of items.. took a while :)

Ian



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Expand multiple folders in list view mode
Authored by: skeeter17 on Feb 24, '03 08:17:13PM

for some reason, this doesn't work at all for me...
skeeter



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Still working nicely
Authored by: desaiguilles on Oct 19, '11 04:32:05PM

in 10.7.2 Lion
As works beautifully in Font Book.



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