Shortcut for "collapse all"?

In the Hierarchy panel, if I hit command-a or ctrl-a, it will select all objects and expand the parents/children trees. However, often times I would accidentally hit those keys... is there a keyboard shortcut to collapse these tress in the Hierarchy panel? Keeping to click on the arrows to close them can get quite tiring...

 

Command (Control on Windows) + left-arrow should do the trick.

 

just tried it. It closes one group but not the entire panel for me. And actually just pressing "left arrow" does the same thing on my mac. hmmmm...

 

Hmmm, Command-A to select all and then left-arrow doesn't collapse everything for you? 2.6 or 3.0?

 

hmm nope. I am on 2.6.

edit: oops I meant Unity iPhone ver 1.7

 

Ah, ok... yeah, not working in Unity iPhone 1.7... Command-A when focussed in the Project View actually selects everything in the Hierarchy... pretty sad :roll:

Well, all I can say it that it works in 2.6 and 3.0 :wink:

PS - Wow, the Unity iPhone 1.7 interface is gross! I'm blinded by the bright grey... we've come a long way in 3.0

 

Ahh ok. Guess I'll just have to wait for the update. Thanks anyway!

 

Hello,

Have you tried Option clicking the arrows? That should close up all of the sub-hierarchies at least.

Best wishes,

-Lincoln Green

 

option-arrows still doesn't work for me. It closes one tree of hierarchies but not the entire panel.

hmm...

 

it does't work in Unity 3.0 too! If I press CTRL + A... it select every objects but not expand it!

 

Hi,

1. In Windows 'CTRL + A' is usually the short-cut 'Select All', which is why every object is being selected.
2. In Windows it is 'Alt + LMB' on the arrow in the tree in order to collapse or expand all of the children.
3. This thread should be in the Support section.

Note: You must Left-Mouse-Button click on the arrow, not the word or it won't work.

 

This works for folders (great which I use a lot) but not for files with children. For example, I have an animation folder with hundreds of fbx files. Each fbx has a child node (only visible in Unity) for the animation clip (held within the fbx). In order to preview the animations you need to burrow inside to the clip.

The issue is that if you need to change the settings (say a bunch of new ones were added and need to be set to "Legacy"). To bulk select/change all the fbx files - you cannot do it -unless you first minimize all the child nodes. It's frustrating, since you have to then scroll through hundreds of files to find the ones left un-minimized. I'm guessing scripting would be the only way around this problem?

 

Much better to set FBX settings through scripting (http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetImporter.html)

Nice necro btw

 

Any chance of a dummy example/reference that I can frankenstein for my own purposes? self <= a programmer (self == 3d guy)

 

Thanks, it worked on 2018.1

 

you need to select ALL before you do the Control + left arrow

 

easiest just to save and reload the scene! they're collapsed by default