Version 6.0.2:
New features:
- In the Quick Search window, you can now browse through all recent items by hitting the Down Arrow key when there's no search string.
- Added Command-L as a default keyboard shortcut for "Enter Filename" in Save dialogs so you can easily move back to the filename edit field.
- Changed the layout of items in the Finder drawer so they're clustered together in the center rather than distributed across the entire width of the drawer.
- In Default Folder X > Settings > Recent, "Forget All Recently Used Items" now also removes recent Applications and the "rebound" history.
Bug fixes:
- Corrected problems that could cause Default Folder X to switch folders in file dialogs slowly or not at all.
- Resolved an issue that caused the cursor to disappear in file dialogs in macOS Sonoma.
- Fixed a bug that could result in a default folder not working if it applied to only a specific file extension.
- Fixed problems with keyboard focus and text selection in Save dialogs not working correctly under certain conditions.
- Fixed a bug that prevented double-clicking on items in the Drag Zone from working on some systems.
- Corrected an issue with Default Folder X's preview window failing to resize when a file dialog was moved.
- Fixed a problem with Default Folder X getting stuck if you tried to go to a hidden iCloud Drive folder in a file dialog.
- Resolved problems with slow or non-responsive file dialogs within Default Folder X's own settings window on Sonoma.
- Fixed a bug that caused Default Folder X to show recent items in some system folders when it shouldn't have.
- Resolved a bug when syncing settings via iCloud that could delete a folder set when iCloud Drive syncing failed in a particular manner.
- Fixed a problem that could cause the keyboard to stop responding if you customized Default Folder X's menu to show recent items in the top level of the menu rather than in a submenu.
- Corrected an issue that could result in Default Folder X's toolbar not aligning correctly with a file dialog after the dialog was moved from one display to another.
- Reenabled the user defaults option to show a custom color icon in the menu bar.
Version 6.0.1:
New features:
- There's an alternate style for Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar. You can change it in the General tab of the settings.
- The keyboard shortcuts for search options in the Quick Search window have changed and are now configurable in Settings > Shortcuts.
- Hitting the Quick Search keyboard shortcut twice in a row will pop up the window with a search mode of "All".
- In Quick Search, Command+Down Arrow steps through your previous searches.
- Quick Search now remembers your selected search mode across restarts.
- Applications in /System/Library/CoreServices will not be remembered in the Recent Apps history.
- The Finder toolbar menu will include the About / Settings / Help / Quit menu if Default Folder X's icon is turned off in the menu bar.
- Removed the option to hold down the Command key to open a folder in Terminal. This conflicted with the standard use of the Command key to reveal an item in the Finder.
- You can turn on a setting to disable Default Folder X's detection of apps that have custom dark themes. This reduces the frequency of notifications in Sonoma's menu bar telling you that Default Folder X is capturing your screen. Use this command in Terminal: "defaults write com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderX5 toolbarIgnoresAppDarkMode 1".
- Inclusion of files and folders synced by cloud services is now disabled by default.
- Improved the appearances of the menu bar icon and Finder toolbar icons.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a conflict which prevented TextExpander from working in Save dialogs.
- Resolved a bug that caused performance and stability problems on macOS 12 and earlier.
- Worked around a bug in Sonoma that sends keyboard input to the wrong text field in Save dialogs.
- Fixed a problem with the Finder toolbar buttons being unresponsive until Default Folder X was relaunched.
- Corrected a problem during drag and drop operations with menus not displaying folders that have large numbers of items.
- Fixed a problem with Save Action settings not being synced properly between Macs when iCloud sync is turned on.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when the menu bar menu was configured to have the About / Settings / Help / Quit items above another menu item.
- When validating a license, Default Folder X will always try to connect to our server so connection management apps like Little Snitch will prompt you to allow it. Previously, it wouldn't trigger Little Snitch because it wouldn't even try to connect after the system told it the host was unreachable.
- Corrected a bug in which some keyboard shortcuts couldn't be changed in Settings > Folders > Favorites after deleting a favorite.
- Changed license prompts to ensure consistent use of the term "License number" instead of "Serial number".
- Resolved a conflict that caused SnagIt's mouse tracking to slow down when taking screenshots.
Version 6.0:
Major new functionality:
- macOS 14 Sonoma is fully supported.
- In Save dialogs, the edit field where you type the name of the file is much larger.
- Default Folder X's toolbar in Open and Save dialogs offers multiple themes: System Appearance, Translucent and Dark.
- Quick Search provides keyboard-driven access to all of your favorites, recent files, folders, apps and Finder windows. Press Command-Shift-Space to access it.
- You can drag and drop files onto Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar. When you do so, it pops up its menu to let you choose the folder where the files will go.
- Default Folder X's menu in the menu bar can be reorganized and customized to fit your specific needs.
- When saving a file, you can choose Actions to execute after the file is saved. These include immediately opening the file, attaching it to an email, or sending it to an AppleScript, Workflow or Shortcut for further processing.
- Default Folder X's menu now offers submenus for Recent Apps and Recent Finder Windows.
- Your settings, favorites and recent items can be synced between multiple Macs via iCloud.
- The Finder drawer and Drag Zone have been rewritten to be more useful. They now fully implement drag and drop, including dragging to reorganize items, multi-selecting items, etc.
- Recently-changed items in specific folders can be excluded from Default Folder X's menus.
- Default Folder X's look and feel have been updated and refined.
Other new features:
- Finder label colors are shown in the menus.
- Recently used Applications are now tracked.
- The Finder Windows menu can now be sorted alphabetically by holding down the Option key.
- The Option key toggles Default Folder X's menu sorting between sort-by-name and sort-by-date.
- The path to a selected item is shown in the Info tab below Open dialogs. Click on the path to copy it.
- Keywords from PDF files are included in the metadata shown in the Info pane below Open dialogs.
- Finder-click optionally recognizes folders _within_ Finder windows, not just the folder associated with the Finder window itself. Enable this using Settings > Open & Save > Behavior > Choose folders within windows when you click on them.
- Support has been added for the macOS Shortcuts app so you can query and control Default Folder X from Shortcuts.
- Selecting "Show Item in Finder" in the Finder drawer or Drag Zone will open the item in an alternate file browser (like Path Finder) if one is configured and running.
- Finder-click now distinguishes between Finder, ForkLift and Path Finder windows by showing the icon of the app that owns them.
- Each time Default Folder X switches to a default folder, you'll see a reminder until you choose "don't tell me again". This should help folks who inadvertently configure a default folder and are later confused by the behavior.
- If you assign keyboard shortcuts to Default Folder X's menus in file dialogs, those shortcuts are shown in the toolbar's tooltips.
- When popping up a single menu using AppleScript, the menu items for Settings, About, etc will not be added to the bottom of the menu.
- You can set up an AppleScript to provide default filenames in Save As dialogs instead of just getting "Untitled". This can be used to add the current date to the default name, apply a standard naming convention for certain documents, etc.
- Default Folder X's ShowMenu AppleScript command now has an option to show a Recent Apps menu.
- Added more detail to the command descriptions in the AppleScript scripting dictionary.
- Improved support for the "increase contrast" mode that's available in System Settings > Accessibility > Display.
Improvements to the Settings:
- Settings have been reorganized to make them easier to navigate and understand.
- Settings for recent items, including excluding recent items within certain folders, have been given their own tab in the Settings window.
- You can reorder folder sets in Default Folder X > Settings > Folders > Edit Folder Sets. They can be dragged up and down in the list or moved using the arrow buttons.
- Favorites and default folders can be copied or moved between folder sets via a contextual menu in Settings > Folders.
- The Edit Folder Sets window is resizable and supports multiple selection (Command+click) for reordering and removing folder sets.
- You can turn on the tracking of recent items for cloud sync services on a service-by-service basis. When turned on, items synced from the cloud are treated as if you opened them.
- In Settings > Folders you can now select multiple favorites or default folders when reordering, deleting or showing them in the Finder.
- Favorite and default folders in Settings > Folders are now grayed out if they refer to a folder that's been deleted or moved.
- Added an option in Default Folder X > Settings > Menus to show items with color tags at the top of menus.
- There's a keyboard shortcut to move keyboard focus to the file listing in Open and Save dialogs.
Bug fixes:
- Switching between folders in Open and Save dialogs is more reliable.
- Fixed the assignment of keyboard shortcuts in Recent menus so they're on the correct items when menus are sorted by name rather than by date.
- If a minimized Save dialog pops up, Default Folder X usually maximizes it for you. It will not do so if that causes the dialog to extend past the sides or bottom of the screen.
- The Finder toolbar menu no longer includes "About Default Folder X", Settings and other application-level items.
- Changes to the system Light / Dark Mode are immediately applied when there's a file dialog open.
- Revealing an alias in the Finder will correctly reveal the alias file rather than the target of the alias.
- Editing dates in the Info pane below Open dialogs works more smoothly.
- When selecting a destination for the Copy, Move, and Create Alias commands, choosing a folder from the Recent Folders menu now correctly switches to that folder.
- Resolved an issue with Default Folder X stalling when Safari sleeps or hangs while loading a web page.
- Creating a new, empty folder set and then immediately creating a duplicate works correctly.
- Fixed a bug in which hierarchical menus could show iCloud Drive nested within itself.
- Disk space is no longer shown in menus in the Computer submenu because disk space no longer has meaning under APFS.
- Fixed the "Mirror recent and favorite items in ~/Library" feature so it works correctly for filenames that have a '/' character in them.
- Worked around a bug in the Bay ROES app that prevented it from launching when Default Folder X was running.
Version 6.0b7
- Fixed a bug in switching between folders in Open and Save dialogs when the toolbar appearance was "Small Toolbar" and either Translucent or Dark.
- Corrected the alignment of the Default Folder X's menu when it pops up from the Finder toolbar button.
- Removed "About Default Folder X" and other unnecessary commands from the Finder toolbar menu.
- Fixed the alignment of the Customize Menu button when running on German systems.
- Added a VoiceOver description for the DFX icon in the menu configuration sheet.
- Added a "Path:" label to the Information pane below Open dialogs.
- Added a Quick Search command to the Utility menu in file dialogs.
- Updated German, French and Danish localizations. Still a few details to go.
- Fixed a number of localization issues.
Version 6.0b6
- Animation of the expanded filename field is now smoother and more polished.
- Made Default Folder X responsive to changes in Light / Dark mode while file dialogs are open.
- Eliminated a white flicker in Dark Mode the first time a Save dialog is used after Default Folder X is launched.
- Removed a background view behind the expanded filename edit field that could be the wrong color in Dark Mode.
- Opening the Default Folder X settings window while a file dialog is Open now works correctly.
- Improved icons in the Finder toolbar.
Version 6.0b5
New features:
- The expanded filename field now animates to its new, wider size.
- Default Folder X > Settings > Open & Save > Appearance offers separate Style and Theme menus for selecting the appearance of Default Folder X's bezel / toolbar.
- After dragging and dropping a file to Default Folder X's icon, the destination folder is added to the Recent Folders history.
Bug fixes:
- Switching between folders in file dialogs is faster and more reliable.
- The wide filename field is reactivated and selected after using menus or popups in Save dialogs.
- Fixed saved dialogs so that Command+Delete correctly activates the Delete button if it's present, or performs a "delete to beginning" in the filename field if there's no Delete button.
- Corrected issues with previews popping up for the (nonexistent) Drag Zone when using the Small Toolbar style in Open and Save dialogs.
- In the actions panel below Save dialogs, "Remember these settings next time" text was sometimes truncated. This has been fixed.
- The "with Cancel Button" argument of the CloseDialog Shortcut command now works correctly.
- Fixed a memory leak.
Question:
- Default Folder X's two drag-and-drop areas, the drag zone to the left of file dialogs and the drawer below Finder windows, currently show the same set of items. If you drag something to the Finder drawer, it's available next to file dialogs and vice versa. Should I leave it that way, or would it be more useful to have these areas each have their own separate collection of files and folders?
Version 6.0b4
New features:
- You can click on the "+" icon in the Finder drawer to add currently-selected Finder items to the drawer.
- If you assign shortcuts to pop up menus in Default Folder X's toolbar, those shortcuts are shown in the toolbar's tooltips.
- When you drag and drop files or folders onto Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar, the prompt at the top of the menu explicitly tells you whether the item will be moved, copied or aliased depending on the modifier keys held down.
- Icons in the drawer and file dialog toolbar / bezel have been further refined.
- The toolbar icons are brighter in Dark Mode.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a performance issue that caused a delay when popping up or resizing the bezel around file dialogs.
- The wide filename in Save dialogs no longer covers up the maximize button when running on High Sierra.
- Corrected the layout and zooming behavior of the "drop things here" icon in the Drag Zone when the toolbar is top-aligned.
- Selecting all items in the Drag Zone or Finder drawer and choosing "Remove" from the contextual menu will remove all items rather than just the visible ones.
- When dragging items to the menu bar icon while holding Option or Command+Option, the cursor would revert to the default cursor if you hovered the mouse over the icon for a few seconds. This has been fixed.
- Holding down the Option key while clicking on Default Folder X's menus will reverse the sort order of the menus as it should.
- The very thin white line at the bottom of the Default Folder X application icon has been removed.
Version 6.0b3
New features:
- There are two new toolbar styles, "Translucent Bezel" and "Translucent Toolbar". They are much more translucent than the standard bezel and toolbar and are available in Big Sur and later. You can switch styles in Settings > Open & Save > Appearance.
- The standard bezel and toolbar styles in Open and Save dialogs are now slightly translucent in macOS 11 Big Sur and later.
- The "Minimal Toolbar" appearance style has been renamed "Small Toolbar"
- Holding down the Command key while dragging and dropping an item will always move it, even if the item and drag destination are on separate volumes.
- When dragging items to the menu bar icon, the menu that pops up to select the drag destination no longer has extraneous "About Default Folder X", etc items at the bottom.
- The "Computer" icon in the toolbar has been updated to an M1 iMac.
- The icons and text in the Drag Zone are the same size as the toolbar icons and text.
- The text in the Finder drawer is the same size as the text that the Finder uses for filenames.
- The Finder drawer now uses the "sidebar" material so that it matches the Finder sidebar.
- Improved the appearance of the Quick Search window on Mojave and Catalina.
- Switched to a lighter font in the Quick Search window.
- When in Light Mode, the icons in the toolbar are slightly darker to better match the label text.
- If a minimized Save dialog pops up, Default Folder X usually maximizes it for you. It will not do so if that causes the dialog to extend past the sides or bottom of the screen.
- Improved support for "increase contrast" mode in Accessibility.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a problem in which application keyboard shortcuts would stop working after using a Save dialog until you clicked on a window in the app.
- You can once again drag and drop files and folders onto Default Folder X button in the Finder toolbar. This operates identically to dropping a file or folder on the Default Folder X icon in the menu bar, popping up a menu so you can select a destination for the dropped items.
- Fixed the Finder drawer so it no longer looks 1 pixel off in Dark Mode.
- Default Folder X's keyboard shortcuts are no longer active when the Quick Search window is invoked while a file dialog is open.
- Corrected a bug that could cause the Quick Search window to stall while you're typing.
- Corrected the text color in the Finder Drawer and Drag Zone when in Dark Mode on macOS versions prior to Big Sur.
- The translucency / color of the sample toolbar in Settings > Open & Save > Appearance accurately reflects the real appearance of the toolbar.
- Fixed the incorrect preview of the Dark Bezel style in Settings > Open & Save > Appearance on Mojave and Catalina.
Known issues:
- You can not click on the "+" icon in the Finder drawer to add currently-selected Finder items to the drawer.
- The wide filename in Save dialogs covers up the maximize button when running on High Sierra. Should I drop support for High Sierra? That would simplify code and testing...
- The wide filename field just splats itself onto the screen - it would be better if it animated from the small size to the large one.
Version 6.0b2
- The Finder drawer and Quick Search windows are now translucent.
- The Quick Search window pops up without deactivating the current application or file dialog.
- The wide filename field in Save dialogs is compatible with text expansion apps such as TextExpander and Espanso.
- Dragging and dropping items in Default Folder X while pressing modifier keys works the same way it does in the Finder. Dragging moves an item if it's on the same volume and copies it otherwise, Option+drag copies it, and Command+Option+drag creates an alias.
- A "dropped" sound is played after dropping items into folders in the Finder drawer.
- Errors that occur during a drag-and-drop operation are more detailed and helpful.
- After saving a file in Safari, the keyboard focus is reset correctly so Safari responds to command keys.
- Revealing an alias in the Finder will correctly reveal the alias file rather than the target of the alias.
- Fixed a hang that could occur when displaying PDF keywords in the Info tab below Open dialogs.
- Drag and drop to Default Folder X's menu bar icon is more responsive.
- Fixed a conflict between Default Folder X's splash screens and the Rectangle app.
- Adjusted the layout of the welcome splash screens to accommodate localized text.
- Worked around a bug in the Bay ROES app that prevented it from launching.
- French localizations have been updated.
Version 6.0b1
- Added an upgrade splash screen to highlight new features in v6.
- Updated the welcome splash screen with v6 screenshots and features.
- Keywords from PDF files are included in the metadata shown in the Info pane below Open dialogs.
- There's a new preference setting to turn on and off the expanded filename edit box in Save As dialogs.
- Editing dates in the Info pane below Open dialogs works more smoothly.
- The menu customization dialog remembers its size after being resized.
- Removed a workaround for a bug in Sonoma Beta 3. If you are running Sonoma, you must use the latest public beta.
- After customizing the menu bar menu, Folder Sets appear correctly in the menu when configured to show inline instead of as a submenu.
- The selection point in the long filename field in Save dialogs is set correctly when you click within the filename, even if the content is scrolled to the left.
- When assigning keyboard shortcuts to Favorites in Dark Mode, the controls now draw correctly.
Version 6.0a8
- Removed a workaround for a bug in Sonoma Beta 2, as the bug has been fixed by Apple. If you are running Sonoma, you must use Beta 3 or later.
- When selecting a destination for the Copy, Move, and Create Alias commands, choosing a folder from the Recent Folders menu now correctly switches to that folder.
- The menu customization dialog mistakenly displayed "About Default Folder X" and other application items with submenu arrows. This has been fixed.
- Improved the appearance and function of the drag & drop hint in the Drag Zone next to file dialogs.
- Syncing preferences via iCloud handles errors correctly when you aren't signed in to iCloud.
- Fixed the warning message displayed when DFX's icon in the menu bar is turned off.
- Corrected a bug in the handling and reporting of drag & drop errors.
- Added a workaround for window activation bugs in Sonoma Beta 3.
- Eliminated use of deprecated API that's being removed in Sonoma.
- Fixed a small memory leak.
Version 6.0a7
New features:
- If there are fewer than 6 search results in the Quick Search window, it will include an option at the bottom to search with Spotlight.
- Added contextual menu commands so you can copy or move favorite and default folders to another folder set in Settings > Folders.
- When there are only a few items in the Drag Zone (on the left side of file dialogs), they are grouped closer together rather than spread unnaturally across the height of the sidebar.
- Selecting "Show Item in Finder" in the drawer or Drag Zone will open the item in an alternate file browser (like Path Finder) if one is configured and running.
- Turning on "Reduce Motion" in the system accessibility settings will turn off animation of the drawer, Finder-click shadows, and toolbar.
Bug fixes:
- Corrected an issue with keyboard focus not returning to Finder windows after dragging items to the drawer.
- Selection is properly shown after drag-and-drop operations in Settings > Folders.
- Dragging multiple favorite or default folders to reorder them in Settings > Folders works correctly.
- Fixed a bug that caused the selection to change when using a scroll wheel or gesture to scroll through favorite or default folders in Settings > Folders.
- The selection in the filename edit box in Save As dialogs is now correct after a user-supplied AppleScript modifies the initially suggested filename.
- When customizing the menu bar menu, dragging multiple, non-contiguously selected menu items re-orders them correctly.
- When re-ordering folder sets, dragging multiple, non-contiguously selected folder sets now re-orders them correctly.
- Resolved an issue with Default Folder X stalling when Safari sleeps or hangs while loading a web page.
- The contextual menus in the Finder drawer and the Drag Zone are localized in French.
- Fixed a crash in the DXPreviewServer helper app.
Version 6.0a6
- Worked around a bug in Sonoma's menu manager so file dialogs do not stall with a spinning progress indicator.
- Updated iCloud Sync error messages with instructions for Ventura and Sonoma.
- Changed "Customize" to "Customize Menu" in the General settings tab.
- Updated French localizations.
Version 6.0a5
- Added support for macOS 14 Sonoma.
- You can reorder folder sets in Default Folder X > Settings > Folders > Edit Folder Sets. They can be dragged up and down in the list or moved using the arrow buttons.
- The Edit Folder Sets window is resizable and supports multiple selection (Command+click) for reordering and removing folder sets.
- There's an option to open and close the Finder drawer without animation. Use "defaults write com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderX5 animateDrawer 0" to turn animation off.
- Fixed Default Folder X > Folder Sets > Manage Sets so it correctly opens the folder set window.
- Creating a new, empty folder set and then immediately creating a duplicate works correctly.
- You can select multiple items in the menu customization dialog by Command+clicking.
Version 6.0a4
New features:
- You can now customize Default Folder X's menu in the menu bar. Click on the "Customize" button in Default Folder X > Settings > General.
- Finder-click optionally supports clicking on the content of Finder windows. If you click on a folder icon in a Finder window, for instance, the file dialog will switch to the folder represented by that icon, not just the folder associated with the surrounding Finder window. I'm on the fence about offering this as a feature, as I think it might be confusing. Please go to Default Folder X > Settings > Open & Save > Behavior, turn on "Choose folders within windows when you click on them" and let me know what you think.
- When you descend into a folder using the right arrow in Quick Search, the path of the folder and an arrow to go back are shown below the search field.
- When using Quick Search within a folder, ".." can be used to select its parent folder.
- The settings have been reorganized and updated (again). Feedback is welcomed.
- A Quick Search menu item has replaced the Folder Sets submenu in the default menu configuration.
- Finder-click now distinguishes between Finder, ForkLift and Path Finder windows by showing the icon of the app that owns them.
- When searching explicitly for apps in Quick Search, it will also look in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications and /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications.
- Spark Desktop is supported by the email attachment action.
Bug fixes:
- Worked around a bug in the Finder that would cause Finder-click to fail after browsing Time Machine backups.
- When Quick Search is used in a file dialog, the file dialog is properly reactivated after the Quick Search window is dismissed.
- The settings window remembers its previous size and position correctly in all cases.
- The Quick Search results will be properly reset when starting a new search even when that search takes a long time (like when you're using Spotlight).
- Quick Search correctly handles app-specific Document folders within iCloud Drive.
- Fixed a bug in which hierarchical menus could show iCloud Drive nested within itself.
- Fixed the assignment of keyboard shortcuts in Recent menus so they're on the correct items when menus are sorted by name rather than by date.
- When dragging items to the menu bar icon, sending an item to the folder where it's already located will not generate an error.
- Disk space will no longer be shown in menus in the Computer submenu because disk space no longer has meaning under APFS.
- Quick Search will resolve all symlinks in custom search folders that are added via Terminal.
- Removed "Move to Trash" from the contextual menu in Quick Search results.
- The term "App" is used instead of "Application".
Version 6.0a3
- Added Finder-click support for ForkLift 4 (beta).
- Quick Search works correctly in non-roman languages.
- The Quick Search user interface renders correctly on older versions of macOS.
- Quick Search takes system locale information into account for comparisons and sorting.
- Sorting of the contents of folders in Quick Search follows the "Sort recent submenus" preference.
- Quick Search is more responsive, performing more of its work in background threads so the UI updates more smoothly.
- Thumbnail icons for search results are created in the background and updated when they're ready.
- Icons are cached in Quick Search so search results appear faster and don't flicker as you type.
- Page Up and Page Down keys work as expected when scrolling Quick Search results.
- Scrolling with a trackpad in Quick Search is no longer super fast and twitchy.
- You can manually add more Quick Search sources by setting the 'quickSearchPathsForFolders', 'quickSearchPathsForFiles' and 'quickSearchPathsForApps' user defaults in Terminal.
- After launching, Default Folder X loads your last Quick Search query in the search window.
- Eliminated unnecessary showing and hiding of the progress indicator as you type.
- Quick Search now recognizes both '~' and '/' as special folders.
- The tooltips for Quick Search results now include the modification dates of items.
- Paths displayed in Quick Search results are shortened using the '~' character to represent your home directory.
- Menu items in the Quick Search button are enabled appropriately for the context.
- Fixed issues with the warning popover for default folders coming up underneath some of Default Folder X's file dialog controls.
- Eliminated unnecessary extra sync activity when syncing settings via iCloud.
- Fixed a problem with initial iCloud sync setup sending preferences to iCloud but not receiving them.
- Added diagnostics and prompts to navigate common problems for iCloud setting synchronization. More work needs to be done here.
- Corrected a bug that would stop iCloud sync when you logged out of iCloud and wouldn't restart it until you relaunched Default Folder X.
- iCloud settings sync will not add folders and files to your recent history that don't exist on the receiving Mac.
- Hidden files are no longer copied during iCloud settings sync.
Version 6.0a2
- Quick Search now offers an option to search using Spotlight, which can be useful when a file or folder isn't in your Default Folder X favorites or history
- The icon in the Quick Search window when searching Default Folder X favorite and recent items is now the DFX icon rather than a magnifying glass.
- In the Quick Search window, descending into a folder (using right arrow) will initially display the folder's contents sorted by date.
- When returning to a previous folder or search (using left arrow), the selection in the previous result list is remembered.
- Fixed a bug in the Quick Search window that would show the standard window titlebar gumdrop buttons after switching between Dark Mode and Light Mode.
- Entering '~' in the Quick Search window displays your home folder. You can then use the right arrow key to drill down and search its contents and subfolders.
- The Quick Search window shows a progress indicator for long searches (ie when you use Spotlight).
- The contextual menu for Quick Search search results now includes a "Move to Trash" item.
- The icons in the Quick Search menu button draw correctly in Dark Mode.
- Command+Shift+G works as it should when you're in a Save dialog and the keyboard focus is in the wide filename field.
- Icons have been tweaked to look better in menus and the file dialog toolbar.
Version 6.0a1
- You can now drag and drop files and folders from the Quick Search results to other apps to open them.
- The Quick Search window offers a number of filters so you can search for just folders, just files, just apps, or only recent items, favorites, or Finder folders. Note that if you search specifically for apps, Default Folder X will offer apps from the standard Applications folders in addition to recently used apps.
- When dragging and dropping items to Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar, recent Finder windows are also shown when selecting a destination for the drag.
- Added the option to run a Shortcut on a file after saving it. You access this in the "Actions" tab below Save dialogs.
- Default Folder X now offers a variety of Shortcuts commands to change its settings and get information about Open and Save dialogs. There may be too many, actually.
- Default folders have been a source of confusion for some users. When a default folder is used for the first time, a warning is displayed to explain what's happening.
- Fixed issues with the toolbar next to Open and Save dialogs sometimes being slightly too narrow.
- Improved the drawer and drag zone to eliminate multiple refreshes and flashes, make animation smoother and fix display glitches.
- The drag zone now aligns with the center or top of the file dialog to match the setting you've chosen for Default Folder X's toolbar.
- Default Folder X's ShowMenu AppleScript command now has an option to show a Recent Applications menu.
- The maximum number of items saved in internal history records is now 200 instead of 100 so that the Quick Search window retains items for longer.
- Fixed problems with custom menu configurations that included the contents of one of the Recent menus in the main menu.
- The keyboard shortcuts in Recent Folders, Recent Files and Recent Finder Windows menus have been fixed. They would previously be assigned to the wrong items even though using them would go to the correct folder or file.
- Fixed matching of the bezel color to the file dialog color so it works in High Sierra and Mojave.
Version 6.0d29
- The Settings / Preferences have been updated and reorganized.
- The Quick Entry window is now called the Quick Search window.
- The Quick Search window is now resizable and has rounded corners.
- Corrected some user interface issues in the Quick Search window, such as its initial location on the screen and correctly activating a previously-active file dialog when it closes.
- The keyboard shortcut for the Quick Search window is now configurable in the General tab of your Default Folder X settings.
- Settings for recent items, including excluding recent items within certain folders, have been given their own tab in the Settings window.
- You can now turn on the tracking of recent items for specific cloud sync services. When turned on, items synced from the cloud are included as if you opened them.
- When popping up a single menu using AppleScript, the menu items for Settings, About, etc will not be added to the bottom of the menu.
- Menus popped up with a keyboard shortcut that uses the Option key will not swap their sorting order using the Option key.
- Added a "Drop files & folders here" popover when you drag items to Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar.
Changes propagated from updates made to Default Folder X 5.x:
- Fixed a bug in the Finder-click feature that could disable it in some scenarios.
- Corrected an issue with Default Folder X failing to go to the correct folder in file dialogs.
- Default Folder X will now match its bezel color and controls to "dark mode" file dialogs in apps that use custom dark themes even when the system is in Light Mode.
- Fixed problems with Default Folder X not appearing in the Save dialogs of GraphicConverter and Luminar Neo on High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina.
- Eliminated a bug in file dialogs that could cause Default Folder X to trigger macros that rely on two presses of the Shift key (yes, I know that's weird).
- Default Folder X didn't correctly merge the /Applications/Utilities and /System/Applications/Utilities folders when showing the contents of the former in its menus. This has been fixed.
- Fixed a problem where the helper apps for Default Folder X's buttons in the Finder toolbar would occasionally not be recognized on some systems.
- Worked around a bug that could cause the application SpeedDock to select the wrong item in its docks when Default Folder X is running.
- Corrected some German localization issues.
- Added compatibility with IBM SPSS.
Version 6.0d24
- You can now drag and drop files and folders onto Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar. When you do so, Default Folder X will pop up its menu to allow you to select a folder as the destination of the drag.
- The Quick Entry window now allows you to navigate to items within folders. After selecting a folder in the search results, hit the right arrow key or click on the arrow at the right side to descend into that folder. After doing so, the left arrow takes you back to the parent folder.
- In the Quick Entry window you can Control+click on a result and use a contextual menu to open, reveal, or copy the path of that item, or if it's a folder, to browse its content using Default Folder X's hierarchical menus.
- The Quick Entry window now retains a history of past searches. Use Command+up arrow and Command+down arrow to navigate through them.
- Jump to a particular search result in the Quick Entry window using Command+number shortcuts.
- Searches in the Quick Entry window will no longer show items that have been deleted or moved.
- Hitting the tab key in the Quick Entry window will copy the name of the currently selected result to the search field.
- Items in Settings > Folders are now grayed out if they refer to a folder that's been deleted or moved.
- In Settings > Folders you can now select multiple favorites or default folders when deleting them or showing them in the Finder.
- Default Folder X will now match its bezel color and controls to "dark mode" file dialogs in apps that run custom dark themes even when the system is in Light Mode.
- Fixed a bug in the filename edit field in Save As dialogs so it correctly handles tabbing between controls.
- The background of the Finder drawer is no longer transparent on macOS 10.13.
- Fixed a small but often-triggered memory leak.
Changes propagated from updates made to Default Folder X 5.x:
- Corrected a problem with the Finder-click feature not "seeing" Finder windows in some configurations.
- Fixed another bug that could result in Open and Save dialogs failing to switch to the desired folder on Ventura.
Known issues:
- You can drag and drop items onto Default Folder X's buttons in Finder toolbars, but there's some odd behavior dictated by the Finder. If you mix multiple types of files in one drag, Default Folder X may not receive all of the files. I may remove this capability if that can't be fixed.
Version 6.0d21
- The Drag Zone area on the left side of Open and Save dialogs has been rewritten. You can now select and multi-select items, drag them to reorder them, insert new items between existing ones, etc. Double-clicking an item will open it, while Control-clicking on an item brings up a contextual menu with options to reveal the item in the Finder, open it in the file dialog, and remove it from the drag zone.
Changes propagated from updates made to Default Folder X 5.x:
- Fixed a bug that could result in Open and Save dialogs failing to switch to the desired folder.
- Resolved an issue with the Cancel and Save buttons in Save dialogs becoming disabled on Ventura 13.1.
- Corrected a problem that could cause Default Folder X to quit unexpectedly under certain circumstances.
- The Previous / Next Finder Window keyboard shortcuts now work correctly when used in the Finder.
Version 6.0d19
- Default Folder X's drawer in the Finder has been rewritten. You can now select and multi-select items, drag them to reorder them, insert new items between existing ones, etc. Double-clicking an item in the drawer will open it, while Control-clicking on an item brings up a contextual menu with options to reveal the item in the Finder, preview it with QuickLook, and remove it from the drawer.
- The Finder Windows menu can now be sorted alphabetically by holding down the Option key.
- Fixed missing creation and modification date controls in the Info pane below Open dialogs.
Changes propagated from updates made to Default Folder X 5.x:
- Changed the default locations for Default Folder X's buttons in the Finder's toolbar so the drawer button doesn't get hidden in narrow windows.
- Worked around a bug in Ventura that could cause Default Folder X to crash when retrieving information about the currently selected item in a file dialog.
- Respect the separate "dark mode" preference in Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher.
Version 6.0d18
- Fixed a problem where pasting a filename into the filename edit field wouldn't actually change the name of the saved file.
- Initial cut at new drag and drop in the Finder drawer. Zooming when there are a lot of items in the drawer still needs work, but drag and drop should work as expected.
- Added more detail to the command descriptions in the AppleScript scripting dictionary.
Changes propagated from updates made to Default Folder X 5.x:
- Default Folder X's drawer in the Finder works correctly with Stage Manager.
- When Stage Manager has hidden the Finder's windows, Default Folder X's Finder-click feature will let you click on them as if they aren't hidden.
- When creating aliases in your Library folder for recent folders and files, items whose names contain a '/' character are now handled correctly.
- Corrected display inconsistencies in Default Folder X > Settings > Shortcuts.
- Fixed a privacy permissions bug on macOS 10.15 Catalina.
Version 6.0d17
- In menus showing recent items, you can change the sort order on the fly by pressing and holding the Option key. This will toggle between sorting by date and sorting by name. This also works on all hierarchical submenus, making it much easer to find the file or folder you want when a folder contains lots of items.
- You can now set up an AppleScript to provide default filenames in Save As dialogs instead of just getting "Untitled". This can be used to add the current date to the default name, apply a standard naming convention for certain documents, etc. Contact me for details on setting up a script.
- Added an option in Default Folder X > Preferences > Menus to show items with color tags at the top of menus.
- Made Command+Option+Space the default keyboard shortcut for the quick entry window.
- Minimized hiding of the mouse cursor when switching between folders in Open and Save dialogs. This reduces "disappearing cursor" problems on Ventura.
- Fixed a problem in Save dialogs where clicking on an existing filename would fail to copy that name to the filename edit field in certain circumstances.
- Fixed the "Create aliases of recent and favorite items in your Library folder" feature so it works correctly for filenames that have a '/' character in them.
Version 6.0d15
- Added support for macOS 13 Ventura.
- Default Folder X now requires macOS 10.13 or higher.
- The Finder drawer is a work in progress. It will change more before it's final.
- Preferences can be synced between multiple Macs via iCloud. You can turn this on with the checkbox in Default Folder X > Preferences > Options on both Macs.
- Clicking on the path control in the Info pane now copies the selected item's path.
- Finder label colors are shown to the left of items in Default Folder X's menus.
- Menus can be sorted with labeled files and folders at the top. This option is currently only available via the 'defaults' command in Terminal.
- Updated the logic for detecting when filename extensions are shown in file dialogs so that it properly recognizes the Finder's "Show all filename extensions" preference.
- Added a keyboard shortcut to move keyboard focus to the file listing in Open and Save dialogs.
- Added a contextual menu to the quick-entry window results so you can copy an item's path or reveal it in the Finder.
- Opening an item using the quick-entry window now moves that item to the top of the appropriate recent folder / file / app list.
- It's now possible to include a Recent Applications menu in DFX's menu bar menu using a custom menu configuration.
- Fixed a problem with the expanded filename edit box in Save As dialogs not activating correctly on Monterey 12.3.1 and later.
- Finder icons now appear correctly in menus (the system was supplying a generic app icon).
- Animation of the bezel window and wide filename field are smoother and coordinated together.
- Resolved a bug that resulted in the expanded filename box failing to appear sometimes.
- The keyboard quick-entry window is now properly centered on the screen.
Changes propagated from updates made to Default Folder X 5.x:
- You can now search the current folder with Find Any File if you have it installed on your Mac.
- Files uploaded in a web browser or attached to an email are now included in Default Folder X's list of Recent Files.
- Finder-click has been improved in Save As sheets on Big Sur and later, providing better access to open Finder windows.
- Attachments opened directly from Mail and Messages will be added to the Recent Files menu even though they are located in folders that are hidden.
- Updated the handling of cloud-synced folders so recent files and folders are correctly tracked on OneDrive, Dropbox, Box Sync and Google Drive.
- When you open a document in iCloud Drive that has not yet been downloaded, Default Folder X will correctly re-select it the next time you use an Open dialog.
- The "Default to the current document's folder in Save dialogs" feature will work correctly in Microsoft Word when the document resides on your local drive. It will not work when the document is located on OneDrive due to the way Word handles those files.
- When displaying your home folder, Default Folder X's path menu could mistakenly identify it as iCloud Drive instead. This has been fixed.
- Default Folder X's ShowMenu AppleScript command now respects the "Open folders in the frontmost Finder window" preference.
- The icon for Favorites in the popup menu within Default Folder X's "Move", "Copy" and "Make Alias" dialogs is now correct.
- If the Finder is not running, Default Folder X's display and editing of Finder comments is now disabled. This prevents Default Folder X from inadvertently launching the Finder.
- Corrected a bug that prevented items in cloud-synced folders from being ignored by the Recent Files and Recent Folders features when they should be.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Default Folder X from seeing open windows in ForkLift and Path Finder under certain circumstances.
- The Finder's icon is correctly shown in Default Folder X's menus again.
- You can turn off Default Folder X's caching of tags, forcing it to query for them with Spotlight each time its Tags pane is shown. To do this, use this command in Terminal:
- defaults write com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderX5 noTagCaching 1
- Worked around a bug in Chrome, Vivaldi, Brave, Opera and Edge browsers that made it impossible for Default Folder X to turn off the "Hide Extensions" checkbox in their Save dialogs when it needed to.
- Fixed the instructions for authorizing Screen Recording so they include steps to click on the lock icon in System Preferences if you haven't already done so.
- Corrected several bugs that could result in Default Folder X automatically expanding or minimizing Save dialogs when it shouldn't.
- Default Folder X will no longer automatically display a full-sized Save As window if doing so would put the Save / Cancel / Delete buttons below the bottom of the screen.
- Corrected a bug that could cause the Finder drawer to hide itself in the middle of a drag-and-drop.
- Fixed Default Folder X's retrieval of recently used tags so it works more reliably.
- Fixed a bug that caused Default Folder X's controls to appear in the wrong location when Monterey's "Automatically hide and show the menu bar on desktop" setting was turned on.
- Corrected a problem with Default Folder X's controls overlapping Quick Look previews in Open and Save dialogs.
- Resolved issues with Default Folder X's Finder toolbar icons resetting to their default positions on Monterey.
- Eliminated a bug that could cause the Monterey Finder to repeatedly relaunch at login.
- Fixed a bug when running on macOS 12 Monterey that prevented Default Folder X's controls from appearing consistently in the Save dialogs of some applications.
- On macOS 10.15 Catalina and earlier, the position of Default Folder X's controls on Save As sheets is now handled correctly in full-screen mode.
- Worked around an issue in Affinity Designer and other Affinity apps so that "Default to the current document's folder in Save dialogs" works correctly.
- Corrected a bug in the "Default to the current document's folder in Save Dialogs" feature, which could default to the wrong document's folder.
- Commands at the bottom of the Favorites menu have been renamed to be shorter and less repetitive.
- Default Folder now supports MoneyDance, the Flying Logic app, and the Mac App Store version of PDF Studio Pro.
- When entering your license number, if validation fails you'll be prompted for your license information again rather than being left back at square one.
- Fixed a bug that caused Default Folder X to become temporarily unresponsive after a file dialog was resized.
- VoiceOver now correctly reads the folder name shown in the popup path menu in Open and Save dialogs.
- Eliminated an error that could cause a system beep after switching to a new folder in a file dialog.
- Corrected some issues in the French and French-Canadian localizations of Default Folder X.
- Added support for several Java apps: RazorSQL, RubyMine and WebStorm.
- Fixed the appearance of the folder set editing window on Big Sur and later.
- Resolved menu item alignment problems in the Utility and Favorites menus.
- Corrected graphical glitches in the path menu in Open and Save dialogs.
- Added missing German localizations in the Favorites menu.
Version 6.0d11
- Fixed the "disappearing filename" problem in Save As dialogs, where the filename edit box would go blank right after the file dialog appeared, or when you turned "Hide Extension" on or off.
Version 6.0d10
- Created a much larger filename edit box so you can actually see and edit long filenames in their entirety, rather than scrolling back and forth.
- The path of a selected file or folder is now displayed in the Information tab below Open dialogs.
- You can now specify a font size for menus via Terminal using this command:
defaults write com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderX5 menuFontSize 12
- Improved performance when handling Save sheets.
- Fixed overlapping buttons in Preferences > Folders.
- Fixed missing list border in the folder set editing sheet.