10.3: Live sidebar updates within Save dialog
Feb 16, '04 10:38:00AM • Contributed by: Han Solo
Just discovered a cool trick with Panther: if you make changes to the sidebar in the Finder with a Save or Save As dialog box (or sheet) open in other application, those changes are immediately propagated to the Save dialog. Why should one care? Suppose you want to save to a folder that is currently open in the Finder, but not easily accessible via the Save dialog. That is, it isn't in the very short "recent places" list or a "favorite", and it would require a lot of mouse clicks to get there. Just drag the folder over to the Finder sidebar, and it immediately appears in the sidebar of the Save dialog. Click on it there to save to your preferred location.
This trick seems to work with both Cocoa and Carbon apps -- although I only tested with Mail.app and Word. Note that if the folder isn't open in the Finder, using the Finder's search capability (or, say, LaunchBar) may be much quicker than mousing around in the Save dialog. When you are done, you can just drag the folder out of the Finder sidebar if you won't need it again.
[robg adds: As mentioned here before, you can also just drag and drop the folder directly from the Finder into the open/save window, and you'll immediately jump to that folder's contents.]
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