How to change Open/Save dialog speed

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Open/Save dialogs on my Mac (macOS 10.14.1) delay about 0.5 to 1 seconds.

How do I change this delay to zero seconds?

It's super annoying huh. Animations are not always user-friendly... — Andy, Commented Nov 11, 2020 at 0:54

bmike · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-22 00:10:07Z

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You can change the speed of the Save/Open dialogs with Terminal. Enter this into Terminal to change the speed to the default:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime 0.2

Change the number at the end to speed up or slow down the animation. The following is practically instant:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime 0.001

This is not specific to the open/save dialog however, it reduces the time of all animations on the system that read this value.

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answered Nov 21, 2018 at 22:31

Dillon

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Thank you. I believe the actual issue is that macOS for some reason experience a noticeable latency of actually accessing the disk. Even on a modern machine with SSD.
– William Entriken
Commented Nov 16, 2020 at 23:13

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