He was skeptical, so I stayed up that entire night to prove I could do it. I told him I thought I could hack the file dialogs to work better. A friend and I were frustrated with the fact that the file dialogs never seemed to show you the folder you wanted. I wrote the very first version of Default Folder when I was in graduate school.
The need for a utility like Default Folder seems obvious now. To honor Default Folder's anniversary, I asked Jon Gotow, the creator of the software, for an interview. With the newest 4.x version, you also get access to "Get Info" window attributes, full-screen previews and a tres cool translucent display. Should you wish, Default Folder X also allows you to easily move to any other location. The idea is to have the dialog automatically open to where you most likely want it to be, rather than having to navigate through a folder hierarchy and long list of files each time. It does this for each application each time you access one of the dialogs. Its primary feature, which is the one that gave the utility its name, is to have these dialogs rebound to the last file and folder location you selected. My recollection is that I started using Default Folder soon after its initial release and have been a more than satisfied customer ever since.įor those of you unfamiliar with this great utility, here's what you need to know: Default Folder X modifies the way Open and Save dialog boxes work. This means that 2008 is Default Folder's twentieth anniversary!
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Even Apple doesn't have much software that dates back that far. Default Folder (with and without the X) is one of the most enduring utilities ever released for the Mac.
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