Workspace Close-All Cleanup and Partial Failures
How the Close all active workspaces action behaves, what full vs partial cleanup results mean, and how retry-after-cleanup works when a launch was blocked by concurrency limits.
Workspace Close-All Cleanup and Partial Failures
Where you see this in the app
This page documents the Close all active workspaces action shown when the app wants the user to clean up active sessions, usually after a concurrency-related launch problem.
What Close all does
Close all active workspaces asks the app to stop every currently active interactive workspace session for the user, optionally scoped to the relevant situation.
From an end-user standpoint, it is the global cleanup action for session pressure, not a normal per-tab close button.
Closed vs partially complete
The result can be fully successful or only partially successful.
| Result | Meaning |
|---|---|
Active workspaces closed | The cleanup completed without reported close failures |
Workspace cleanup partially complete | Some sessions were closed, but one or more still failed to close |
If partial cleanup happens, the UI can also explain how many sessions closed and how many still failed.
Retry after cleanup
The app can immediately retry the requested launch after cleanup.
That is why this flow is closely tied to workspace start and resume behavior: cleanup is often there to make room for a fresh or resumed launch.
Users should interpret retry-after-cleanup as part of the same recovery path, not as a separate unrelated workflow.
What to check if cleanup fails
If cleanup fails or only partially succeeds:
- Treat it as a session-management problem first.
- Retry once after cleanup feedback settles.
- If the app still cannot launch, read the workspace start-error state again rather than assuming cleanup alone was the only blocker.
Related docs
Related docs
See it in action
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Workspace Close Session vs Close All
How closing one workspace session differs from closing all active sessions, where each action appears, and what users should expect from single-session cleanup compared with global cleanup.
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