![]() ![]() it'll just take more time and more clicks. there's nothing that you can do in default folder x that you can't do in regular open and save dialogues and the finder. so default folder x is what I would call a "power user utility". I don't actually have to leave it and go into the finder to rename a file if I see something I need to change. I can even select and then rename a file right inside the open dialogue. so for instance if I take a look here I can look at a preview, I can quick look, I can get information about it, and even better than that I can change things about it like the colors and settings, even permissions for the file, and spotlight comments, and even add tags for the file, all in the open dialogue. and the advantage here is not only can you access all the default folders and favorites and recent folders and things, but you also get information here at the bottom about what you're looking at. so default folder x also works in open dialogues. in addition there's a lot of different ways that you can customize how default folder x works. you can also add to a list of favorite places that you want to save things, and that appears to the right in save dialogues. this is very useful if you use programs like photoshop or video editing software and you always want to save your projects to the same location, and you're sick of having to find the location when you start a new document. so for instance for textedit I can set it to a specific location I want new textedit documents to save to. one is that you can set default folders for various applications. when you go there there's a bunch of different things you can do. now default folder x also adds a sys preference pane. and now the open dialogue, the save dialogue here, jumps right to that folder and I can hit save. but with default folder x I simply move my cursor over there and click it. now in order to do that normally you would have to navigate over to where that test documents folder is from inside this open window. and right over here to the right I can see the test documents folder, and I want to save the file there. for instance here i'm saving a document and it has opened the dialogue in the user folder. ![]() so one of the coolest things you can do in default folder x is you can quickly go to a location that you can just see it right there on the finder. I can also go to a list of favorites that i've set up, a list of recent folders that i've accessed, and a list of folders that are open right now in the finder. so for instance if I wanted to quickly jump to a drive attached to this Mac I could do so by clicking here. I get the standard save dialogue but surrounding that I get the default folder x functionality. let's take a look, so here's a document I quickly created in text edit. So the idea behind default folder x is to add more functionality into your saved and opened dialogues. On today's episode, let's look at the Mac utility "Default Folder X". Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 448: Default Folder X at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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