I use Recent Folders most frequently for selection, and with the Option-left arrow and -right arrow keyboard shortcuts, which move you forwards and backwards in the list. The other five icons provide easy access to different file and folder locations, always with submenus: The Computer menu shows Desktop, Home, and iCloud, as well as all mounted volumes Favorite shows the current set of folders you’ve marked for routine access (multiple sets are supported) Recent Folders shows just that, while Recent Files shows recently accessed files that the current application can open finally, the Finder Window menu reveals all open Finder windows. You can also compress, rename, and delete files and folders, among other tasks. The Utility menu-the one at the top with the app’s icon-reveals file and folder actions, including the very useful Open in Finder, which takes the current folder selection and opens a Finder window. Off to the right side (switchable to the left) sits a stack of six icons that grant core access to Default Folder’s features. The Utilities menu puts Finder and other commands at your fingertips for any file or folder in navigation dialog. It lets you set a default folder specific to the application you’re using, and has a “boomerang” effect-optional, as with nearly every feature-that snaps you back to the last file selected whenever you choose an Open dialog in an app. The app primarily functions like a dialog box overlay, rather than replacing features within the window: It surrounds navigation to offer options. You never have to use the Command-up arrow and -down arrow to move around, if you don’t want to. Everywhere you use the app, whether in dialogs, from a system menu drop-down icon, or in an optional Finder toolbar add-on, Default Folder always shows or has an option you can set to show the complete hierarchical set of nested folders below and parent folders above every folder. One could argue that it’s sub-menus that define Default Folder’s particular approach. Within a navigation window, you can get a preview, navigate deeply elsewhere, and even be told when a folder has no items you can open in that app. (In System 7, I used the late, lamentedĭiskTop Default Folder has always seemed its spiritual heir.) Whenever you use an Open or Save dialog, or any dialog that relies on OS X’s file/folder navigation system, Default Folder steps in to make it better. Default Folder enhances OS X’s often rudimentary navigation options, which have advanced only slightly in most respects since…System 7 or so.
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