[Mavericks] Merge all Finder windows.

[iKam]

Hi guys.

 

The build-in Finder tab feature is awesome in Mavericks.

 

And here is a little workflow to merge all current Finder windows into one single window with tabs.

 

Hope it can help.

 

 

Download it.

Edited November 1, 2013 by iKam

[Ritashugisha]

Very useful, thank you.

[mixterdee]

Nice one.This will come in very handy as I often have quite a few finder windows open across 2 monitors. Cheers.

Edited November 1, 2013 by mixterdee

[naga098]

I was looking for this last week and now there here it is. Thank you for creating this workflow, extremely useful. I am so glad I use Alfred.

[rspike12]

it doesn't work

[xilopaint]

It's not working for me too.

[iKam]

It's not working for me too.

 

 

it doesn't work

 

Please check [system Preferences] - [security & Privacy] - [Accessibility] - [Allow the apps below to control your computer.]

Make the Alfred 2 checked and try again. 

[rice.shawn]

Works great on mine. Thanks, it's so helpful.

[rice.shawn]

Would you want to expand this workflow to include the terminal? That would be rad. Then you could make it so that the args would be "merge finder" "merge "terminal" or something like that. Although, I haven't looked into it enough to see if it works similarly enough. If you want to get fancier, you could also try "merge safari" "merge chrome," etc... I do understand if that's adding features that you don't want to put into the workflow. If that's the case, ignore this!

[danielp]

Please check [system Preferences] - [security & Privacy] - [Accessibility] - [Allow the apps below to control your computer.]

Make the Alfred 2 checked and try again. 

 

It's checked, but it still doesn't work. What else could I try?

[gzs]

yep, doesn't work here either (OSX 10.9 Alfred 2.1)

[xilopaint]

It's checked, but it still doesn't work. What else could I try?

 

Same here.

[rice.shawn]

Here's a simpler version of the script for you to test. Open Applescript Editor (make sure that Applescript Editor can control your computer, so make sure that

System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Accessibility -> Applescript Editor 

is checked; you might have to unlock the preferences first.

 

So, then, in Applescript Editor, copy and paste this script:

tell application "Finder"
  activate
  tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Finder"
     click menu item "Merge All Windows" of menu "Window" of menu bar 1
    end tell   
  end tell
end tell

See if that merges all the finder tabs. iKam's version is better than this script, but if this one doesn't work, then I have absolutely no idea what to tell you...

[kopischke]

Just a hint: if any of the posters with problems happen to be running OS X in another language than English, the AppleScript will not work, as it searches for the relevant menu item by name, which, of course, is localized.

 

If that is the case, the fix is easy: check your Finder and see what your window menu is called, and what the menu item to merge windows is called, then replace the second and third argument of the click_menu call on line 2 of the AppleScript action of the workflow by the localized versions.

 

For instance, for German, replace

click_menu("Finder", "Window", "Merge All Windows")

by 

click_menu("Finder", "Fenster", "Alle Fenster zusammenführen")

[xilopaint]

 

Just a hint: if any of the posters with problems happen to be running OS X in another language than English, the AppleScript will not work, as it searches for the relevant menu item by name, which, of course, is localized.

 

If that is the case, the fix is easy: check your Finder and see what your window menu is called, and what the menu item to merge windows is called, then replace the second and third argument of the click_menu call on line 2 of the AppleScript action of the workflow by the localized versions.

 

For instance, for German, replace

click_menu("Finder", "Window", "Merge All Windows")

by 

click_menu("Finder", "Fenster", "Alle Fenster zusammenführen")

 

Thank you! It worked for me!

[iKam]

Thanks for kopischke's hint.

This workflow is using AppleScript to click the "Merge All Windows" menu item of Finder.

So just change the line below to make it work in other language.

Edited November 16, 2013 by iKam

[danielp]

Thanks for kopischke's hint.

This workflow is using AppleScript to click the "Merge All Windows" menu item of Finder.

So just change the line below to make it work in other language.

 

 

Thank you!

[rice.shawn]

I had never thought that this could be a problem, but now that it's been pointed out, it's so completely obvious. And it probably could answer quite a few unresolved bug reports with other workflows. Great job kopischke!

 

I wrote up a post about it for the workflow help and questions forum that David pinned, so you can find it at the top. I presented two solutions. The first was just putting in a check into the Applescript to see if the language is the same one that the workflow is written for, and, if not, then opening a text file that gives instructions as to how to fix it. Sample code is in the post. The second is a much more ambitious project that I currently don't have time for but an interesting one.

[mkr]

Hi there,

 

just started to love Alfred today and I was looking for nice Workflows all the day. Now i saw this one and i knew i need it! Unfortunately it doesn't work for me. I changed the Names to the german ones and it still does not work. You have any advices for me?

 

Thanks:)