All Questions
15 questions
1
vote
1
answer
98
views
How to prevent macOS or Finder from popping up the dialogue to restore my iPhone in recovery mode?
macOS 11.7.
Every time when my connected iPhone enters recovery mode, Finder automatically opens a new window and shows this dialogue. Not sure how possible it is, but I'd like it not to show up ...
- 121
1
vote
0
answers
19
views
How to prevent macOS from popping up "disk not readable" for my external drive without making any change to the disk? [duplicate]
Similar question: How to get rid of "The disk you inserted was not readable" and auto ignore it? (without installing apps). However, in their case they were able to create an additional ...
- 121
3
votes
1
answer
76
views
In the Save As dialogue, how can I save to the top (or another active) Finder window
Frequently what I would like to do in a Save As dialog box is to click a single button or type a single command that would select the top window in the Finder (or another active Finder window, but it ...
- 125
1
vote
1
answer
471
views
Change File Picker Dialog folder location (avoid latest visited folder)
Whenever a File picker dialog (MacOs Catalina) is being open by a website or in general within the operating system, the UI shows as a default folder the latest used/visited one.
Let's consider this ...
- 13
0
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Suppress "Are you sure you want to delete..." dialogue when deleting items on SMB shares
When connected to an SMB share in Finder and deleting files or folders, this dialogue comes up:
I believe that the reasoning behind this dialogue is because deleted files don't go to a Trash or ....
- 643
0
votes
1
answer
60
views
When I open an Open Dialog box in Catalina, it always displays in "Recent" view, showing items grouped by recently used
I find Recent View to be EXTREMELY anxiety-inducing because it forces me to have to think about when I used the document last and when I used all of the other documents in the same folder. it's in ...
- 383
0
votes
0
answers
33
views
Don’t select extension buy default "Save" dialog
If I’m not mistaking, before I changed computer, the extension wasn’t selected in the "Save" dialog. Is there a way to achieve that?
- 11
2
votes
2
answers
188
views
How to check the type filter in file open dialog?
In windows, we can check the type filter easily:
But in MacOS, it seems the file open dialog has no such thing:
The reason why I want to check it: sometimes the open button is unclickable, but I don'...
- 444
1
vote
0
answers
48
views
Finder tags not appearing in Save Dialog
If I select an existing file with tags in the Save dialog, the Tags field is not showing any pre-existing tags. For example, the check.txt file in the dialog below is tagged (and sitting at ~/Desktop),...
- 185
0
votes
1
answer
135
views
Applescript refer a link to a file in current finder window
Edited.
Where is my current script :
set plistfile_path to POSIX file "/users/moi/Desktop/Time/"
choose file with prompt "Please choose a file:" of type {"plist"} ¬
default location ...
- 2,438
1
vote
1
answer
179
views
In non-native applications, in the Open File dialog, I can see hidden files but I can't select them
I have a problem with some non-native mac software (Perforce Diff and Kdiff3).
When I use the Open File Dialog, I can see the hidden files, but I can not select them or interact with them at all.
...
- 1,321
2
votes
1
answer
111
views
The "Open" and "Save" system dialogs get taller every time I open them
I'm using Mac OS 10.10.2, and I believe this problem only occurs with Mac OS X Yosemite.
Here is the dialog box I am talking about:
I just pressed Cmd+S on Ask Different to trigger this dialog.
If ...
- 85
1
vote
0
answers
579
views
OSX 10.8.5 file picker dialog doesn't allow sort by column
First post to this site and I'm writing with a user gripe. I haven't found any reference to this issue after some searching.
I have a MacBook Air with OSX 10.8.5 and I've noticed a new behavior. ...
user3131822
2
votes
1
answer
581
views
Can't open example files in LyX (greyed out)
I am trying to bring up LyX on a mac. One of the first things in the tutorial is to go look at the file named example_raw.lyx.
I know the file is on my machine because I found it using terminal, ...
- 324
3
votes
2
answers
2k
views
Combining Finder's File Open/save dialog with Alfred
Finder's Open/Save File dialog is actually very dumb (in terms of flexibility). When I look for a file or its location, I can probably find it much faster using Alfred.
However, in many cases, you ...
- 2,274