The toolbar gives you fast access to various folders and commands. You just click on the buttons to go to your favorite and recently used folders, manage the folders and files shown in the list, and make changes to your settings.

It also fixes a number of problems in Open and Save dialogs, “rebounding” to the last selected file, putting the path listing back in the top menu, and correcting bugs in scrolling column views. Discover New Mac Apps. Save money with MacUpdate Shop. Sign in Create account. Default Folder X. Download Default Folder X for Mac 5.

Enhances Open and Save dialogs. Follow this app Developer website. View Video. Features: Directory assistant: You can access the contents of your recent, favorite, and open folders right from Default Folder X’s toolbar. Real time saving: If you’re constantly saving things inside the same folder, Default Folder X can remember that folder for you. Finder management: Default Folder X lets you open up or save to any Finder window with a single click.

Instant Recall: To help you quickly return to folders you’ve recently used, Default Folder X remembers them for you. Spotlight on the spot: Default Folder X lets you add Spotlight keywords, OpenMeta tags, and Finder labels on the spot, while you’re still in the Save dialog. Information central: With Default Folder X you get previews below every Open dialog, expanded to fill the available space. Need to see more detail?

Click on the image and it zooms up to full size. Version 5. Default Folder X comes up significantly faster when an Open or Save dialog opens. When you pop up Default Folder X’s menu using a keyboard shortcut, Finder toolbar button or AppleScript, you can now reliably use the keyboard to select an item from the menu. The Finder-click feature correctly shows Finder windows with multiple tabs even when the Finder delivers incorrect information about them. Try our new feature and write a detailed review about Default Folder X.

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We strongly recommend leaving comments, however comments with abusive words, bullying, personal attacks of any type will be moderated. Email me when someone replies to this comment Post comment. I have been using Default Folder since version 1 and it is the first utility I install when I purchase a new computer. No need to go over all the great features, many are already listed above. Spend a week using DF and then try to stop using DF and you will then realize the convenience of getting to that folder in a split second instead of moving through a bundle of folders to get to that folder buried deep inside another folder.

You want to save a few days of your life? Start using Default Folder and you’ll save those seconds, that add up to minutes, hours and days. Maybe if you live long enough you could save a year of your life. Try this app and you will end up buying it, if you value your time. Save downloads. Absolutely essential software for any Mac. Don’t know why Apple hasn’t bought this and integrated it into the Finder. Can’t do without it. Tony-Aguila Nov 21 For a couple of days, after installing macOS As always, the developer was quick to address the issue and this latest update made things right again!

Thanks, Jon! Dorse Nov 14 Equally excellent response to questions as well as correction of occasional bugs. If you have more than a few folders with few or no sub-folders, this is an app to have to facilitate getting work done instead of navigating only through the native framework. Hachepunto Nov 11 Default Folder X is amazing software. It is a classic given that it has remained so useful, simple, and unsurpassed for so many years.

Wchnlcc Nov 9 Default Folder is hands down one of the top must-have products, especially if you move, save, seek, use files all over your Mac and network. I have had it for years and would not have any setup without it!

Think of this: You’ve been working on images, charts, sound files, videos, for like the past four hours, and NOW you’ve got to place them all – DF remembers where you were, and you can go back to any folder you’ve been in, off a list.

But of course, it does so much more! You can set up DF to use a specific folder for a specific application, or project, or just about anything. It will remember a favorites list, and will, or won’t, give you a preview of a file just by highlighting it. Imagine these features, and anything related you can think of, and it’s in there. For the busy user, nothing else comes close. I want to mention, I am not paid for writing this, I have communicated with the author along the years when I had issues, but I write this because it works, and it should do as good for you too!

Great App, so very useful to me. Eveningclouds Dec 10 Have used this for years and it continues to work great. Very responsive developer. Enormously time saving. Have used and loved it for many years :. This is something that Apple should have included by default to macOS! Aargl Aug 12 Reverting to 4. No particular issue in El Capitan with that old version. EDIT: well Derekcurrie Jun 27 Yes, v5. Craig Paterson May 16 Can’t imagine using my Mac without Default Folder X installed.

Apple should buy this and integrate it into the system. LeMerlot Mar 24 Awesome software and service since so many years — and if there’s an issue it will be solved always very fast.

Default Folder is a must have for every Mac — worth every penny! Still crazy about Default Folder after all these years and it had been many years. Default Folder is Fantastic application developed by an Indie developer who is always updating, adding and fixing. Wikno Dec 6 Most responsive Dev I’ve ever communicated with, period. That includes Peter N. Lewis of Keyboard Maestro. Jon sweeps away the rest, even if by a slim margin sometimes. The confusion I suffer when I use a machine to work with documents as oppose to all the machines I fix , my head explodes and friends and family have a seance to revive me, with DFX as the medium.

This app has many features, and it is possible to miss some as I have in the past, that reveal themselves as truly helpful. The finder Toolbar is that thing at the top of each finder window typically visible , where you change which view you’re in and can navigate forward or backward, perform an inplace search, etc. I don’t think all people who disagree with the 5-star reviews are wrong, especially if they’ve found a bug that’s fatal for their workflow.

If you only ever use the toothpick on your swiss, this might not be for you. If you use two or three of the tools regularly, like the saw, the knife, and the pliers, this has that down like an ace and with scissors and tweezers to boot. Peace and goodwill. Scott-C-H- Nov 2 It is a nostalgia-ware at this point. People using it since the Classic Mac OS days will feel right at home, think that it is a “must-have” software and believe that we could not live without it.

When you open a file, select a file in Open sheet and hit Space bar to preview the file while you are still in the Open sheet.

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