Hi

I was just preparing some free space for Yosemite.

I saw that in fact most of my space was taken up not with movies but with "other files."

I did the thing of holding shift to highlight first and last files and all between to get rid of little groups.

Somehow it highlighted ALL files above my fist and they have ALL opened.

There are important files fro me in there....I cannot lose any.

This has happened before but this time it's hundreds and hundreds of files...I'm amazed the Air was able to open so many so quickly.

Anyway

Is there a clever way to close these files without doing it one by one?

Thanks

reboot.

reboot.

Yes thought the same,

Only trouble with rebooting is it won't close down until you click off a load of things.

When i FORCE CLOSE DOWN everything which was open before opens again.

In fact the first time i went slowly through everything open closing and dealing with one by one.

I then went to my File list and tried doing the SHIFT thing again.

I went carefully.....but one of my SHIFTs seemed to highlight ALL files.

I was very apprehensive trying to see how to UNHIGHLIGHT but sure enough something I did made everything open again.

Madness.

If you Shut down your movie app, be it QuickTime or VLC or whatever, will that do it?

Fraid not TDog

actually when i click COMMAND-TAB to see all the apps open then COMMAND-Q to quit them that's seems to best....but of course it fails to close down things until you click lots of things.

One thing I've learned is exactly HOW to use SHIFT for filling in selections between first and last.

It HAS to be done correctly.

HIGHLIGHT the first selection

Only then SHIFT (and hold)

HIGHLIGHT the last selection.

Then, in my case CONTROL-MOVE TO TRASH