Jump to locations in open/save dialogs

May 22, '01 12:52:08AM

Contributed by: robg

In OS 9, you could single-click on a Finder window while an open/save dialog was onscreen, and the dialog would jump to that location. Very handy for fast navigation to often used folders (although I liked Default Folder even better!). In OS X, that same trick fails - a Finder click simply gets you the Finder.

Tonight, though, I found that you can drag and drop the location you are interested in from the Finder to the open/save dialog, and it accomplishes the same resut. If you drop a file, the filename is placed on the input line, and you can just hit return to open it; if you drop a folder, that folder is displayed in the dialog box. I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I had certainly no idea you could do this until I tried it!

It's not quite as simple as a click in the Finder, but it's close and quite useful!

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