RFE : Force close all Preview windows without saving?

So, I had copied about 200 images in the Finder to copy from one place to another. Forgetting this, I opened preview and inadvertently created a "new document from Clipboard" which proceeded to open all 200 images in one Preview session. Lame.


I tried closing the window, but it wanted to prompt me one image at a time to "save." Plus, maybe it's a bug, but when I would click "delete" to not save, it kept repeating for the same first image and the total image count would not decrease each time I hit "delete". Very lame!


I quit Preview, and then upon re-opening, it would re-open all the same images from the last session. I was in an endless loop of frustration.


My only luck was that when re-opening, it would re-open "most" of them in separate windows, versus one main window, and I was able to close the separate ones, one at a time, by clicking "delete" at each individual save prompt. But once all the individual windows were closed and it got back to the session with multiples, I would have to quit out of Preview, re-open, and then re-close any images that now luckily re-opened separately.


This all sucked, by the way.


I tried deleting from the thumbnails, holding down option, option cmd-W, anything I could think of that would get around the individual save prompt for each image.


There needs to be a "force close all images" or "close without saving" option for when the next guy opens 200+ images. This can't be the first time this has happened. :D



chris

Posted on Jul 15, 2023 12:36 PM

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