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shortcuts, or select those locations
directly via a drop-down menu.- With ‘Default to the current
document’s folder in Save dialogs’
checked, you rarely have to navigate
to where you want to save the next
file. You’re already there. - With a dialog open, select a Finder
window in the background to navigate - you don’t have to leave the dialog.
How it works: Hold down a modifier
key (I configured it for Control), hover
over an open window on any display,
and click to
select it.
I had to
work hard to
trim this list to
five and omit
some of the
dozens of other
features you’ll
find helpful,
too: rename
files and
folders directly
in a dialog,
set favourite
folders, access
Home folders
and mounted
volumes, select
any Finder
contextual
Access to the folder hierarchy within a dialog gives you the
power to use Default Folder to navigate deeply without leaving
the dialog, including Quick Look images and text previews.item for a file (like Compress) within
a dialog, navigate through the
hierarchical folder list directly from
drop down menus, set keyboard
shortcuts globally and locally, preview
with QuickLook directly in an Open
dialog...you get the picture.
Few pieces of Mac software
can claim the pedigree of Default
Folder, which traces its origins to
Gotow’s DFaultD released in 1987.
This evolved into Default Folder X for
Mac OS X, still showing its strength