Default Folder X 6.1.1 improves Quick Search, refines features, and addresses issues with Sequoia, Skim and Bean.
If you already bought Version 6, this update is free.
If you're using version 5.7.8 or earlier, this may be a PAID UPGRADE.
If you have a Default Folder X license purchased on or after March 1, 2023, this upgrade is free. Your existing license number will work in version 6.
If your license was purchased between September 1, 2022 and March 1, 2023, the upgrade is $9.95. For licenses bought prior to that, upgrades are $19.95.
If you're new to Default Folder X 6:
If you're still running version 5, here are the major changes you'll see when upgrading to version 6. More details and screenshots are on the Default Folder X 6.0 Tour page.
Use the keyboard to quickly access favorites, recent files, folders, apps or Finder windows. Pop up Default Folder X's new Quick Search window with a keyboard shortcut, type a few characters of an item's name, and then quickly go to it in a file dialog or open it in the Finder.
Wide filename field when saving files. Pretty self-explanatory - the default macOS Save As dialogs have an edit box that's way too narrow to accommodate a descriptive file name. Default Folder X 6 makes it bigger.
Drag and drop files and folders to Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar to move or copy them to another location. Pick a destination folder quickly from DFX's Recent and Favorites menus, or drill down to any folder using it's hierarchical menus.
Customize Default Folder X's menu in your menu bar. Add, remove and reorganize menus and menu items to fit your workflow.
Perform actions on files after saving them. Automatically open the saved file, attach it to an email, or run AppleScripts, Automator Workflows or Shortcuts on it.
Sync your Default Folder X settings between Macs. If you've got more than one Mac with the same file and folder organization, sync your settings via iCloud so Default Folder X works the same on both machines.
More powerful drawer in the Finder. Default Folder X's Finder drawer has been rewritten to be more useful and intuitive. Use it as a temporary drag-and-drop holding space, or as a location for often used files and folders.
Support for macOS 15 Sequoia. Yes, it's compatible with Apple's latest and greatest.
Pressing the Quick Search keyboard shortcut a second time will hide the Quick Search window.
Quick Search now considers sequential character matches to be more important, making the order of search results more intuitive.
The AddFavoriteFolder AppleScript verb can add separators to Default Folder X's Favorites menu. Use the name "DXMenuSeparator" to add one.
In file dialogs, holding down the Command key while selecting an item from Default Folder X's menus will reveal it. Note that some Open and Save dialogs cannot highlight some items, and will just take you to the folder enclosing that item instead.
Fixed a bug that caused Default Folder X to replace the Format menu in Save dialogs with its path menu. This occurred on Sequoia in specific apps, including TextEdit, Skim and Bean.
Corrected a problem that made Default Folder X's Finder toolbar buttons return to their default locations after you manually moved them.
Default Folder X's Finder drawer will now appear correctly when Stage Manager is active with its app icons displayed on the right side of the screen.
A conflict with the uBar and Sidebar apps would result in the path menu failing to update in Open and Save dialogs when running Sequoia. This has been fixed.
Worked around a bug in Sequoia that disables Default Folder X's ability to track some user interface objects. This could confuse it or get its Finder Windows menu out of sync.
In the Information panel below Open dialogs, the Finder label menu shows your favorite labels (set in your Finder settings) rather than the system's default labels.
The Information panel now correctly shows the labels assigned to files stored in iCloud.
Icon rendering in the Quick Search window has been made less CPU intensive.
A few graphical glitches that occurred on Sequoia have been fixed.
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