Quickly expand and shrink Save dialogs

Mar 05, '12 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Geobunny

In recent versions of Mac OS X, the standard Save dialog box was replaced with a more compact sheet giving only a text field for providing a file name, a popup menu to choose a save location, and sometimes are some specific options such as text-encoding or file-type, along with the Save and Cancel buttons.

There's a disclosure triangle to expand the Save panel into the full size one, giving access to the whole file system.

But you can toggle between the compact and full-size versions by pressing Command-= (equals).

[kirkmc adds: Nice catch. I was sure this would have been on the site, but can't find anything. It's worth noting that applications remember the state of the dialog box, so if you expand it once, they will always display the large dialog.]

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