Version 5.2.4
- Fixed a bug that could stop Default Folder X from switching between folders after you used the Recent Files menu.
- Eliminated a crash that occurred when the Finder's preference file was damaged or unreadable.
Version 5.2.3
Feature enhancements:
- Default Folder X's folder switching within file dialogs is faster and more reliable.
- ForkLift 3 is now supported by Default Folder X's Finder-click feature. If you want to access all tabs and panes shown in a ForkLift window, Control-click on the gray overlay window displayed by Default Folder X. Default Folder X will work with ForkLift version 3.2.2 or higher.
- The Recent Files menu will show all recent documents in applications that don't have a native document type (like Trello).
- Default Folder X is now compatible with Magnet and BetterTouchTool.
- You can double-click items in the Finder drawer to open them.
- Additional AppleScript verbs give you access to recent Finder windows in scripts.
- There is now a keyboard shortcut to take you to the folder containing the current application. Set a shortcut in Preferences > Shortcuts.
- You can set a delay before the preview pops up for items in the Finder drawer. Hold down the Option key while selecting the Preferences menu to get to it.
- The purchase process has been streamlined when you buy an upgrade using the "Buy" button within Default Folder X.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed user interface glitches in the Folders tab of the Default Folder X preferences window.
- Corrected a bug that could prevent the Save button from working in Save As dialogs under certain conditions.
- Fixed a bug in the tracking of recent folders when you open a file directly from Default Folder X's Recent Files menu.
- Previews correctly pop up from the Recent Files menu when it is invoked using AppleScript.
- Fixed a bug that made the path menu overlap the search field in the Finder's "Fix alias" file dialog.
- Corrected a problem with the file dialog layout in Microsoft Excel 2011's save dialogs when running on High Sierra.
- Eliminated a number of crashes and made Default Folder X more tolerant of transient errors in macOS.
- Resolved a compatibility issue with Xcode 9.
Version 5.2.2
Feature enhancements:
- Default Folder X's performance has been improved, especially the time it takes for its controls to first appear next to a file dialog in High Sierra.
- Added AppleScript commands to remove recent files, recent folders and default folders.
- Added placeholder text to make it clear where to enter comments and tags.
- The group headers in the Shortcut preferences are more prominent to reduce confusion about when particular shortcuts are active.
- If you set NSFileViewer in user defaults via Terminal, Default Folder X will use that application instead of the Finder to open files and folders when they're selected from its menus. To use ForkLift, for example enter "defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.ForkLift-3" in Terminal.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that could leave a file dialog stuck on screen with a spinning progress indicator.
- Corrected a problem with Default Folder X not working with file dialogs in Keyboard Maestro and LaunchBar.
- Solved an issue where Default Folder X would intermittently fail to work with some dialogs, notably the one brought up by InDesign's Place command.
- Default Folder X now works correctly with file dialogs brought up while changing its own preferences.
- The "Hide Extension" checkbox will only be automatically turned off in save dialogs when you have a default folder set for the current app and it depends on the filename's extension. Previously, the checkbox was turned off if any default folder depended on the filename extension, even when it didn't apply to the current application.
- Corrected a problem with Default Folder X's drawer in the Finder not appearing when using a Wacom tablet.
- Fixed several crashes.
Version 5.2.1
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Default Folder X from correctly setting Spotlight Tags and Finder Comments when saving files.
Version 5.2
Feature enhancements:
- There is now a preference to choose between color and black & white icons for Default Folder X's toolbar.
- The Compress command can now archive multiple items within any subfolder in a file dialog's file list.
- Application-specific folders on iCloud Drive are now badged with the application's icon.
- The prompts guiding you through authorizing Default Folder X in System Preferences have been greatly improved.
- Default Folder X will automatically fix and relaunch itself if Gatekeeper Path Randomization makes it run from a temporary folder. This eliminates repeated "Do you want to relaunch the Finder" prompts that would occur under certain conditions.
- Your license information is now kept in a separate file. This avoids bugs in the macOS preference system that could make Default Folder X forget that you're a licensed user. It may still forget when you install the 5.2 update, but that will no longer occur with subsequent updates.
Bug fixes:
- Display and navigation of folders on iCloud Drive (including the Desktop and Documents folders) is now correct.
- Items in iCloud Drive are correctly tracked by the recent files and recent folders menus when running on High Sierra.
- The sizes of packaged files and applications are shown correctly in the Preview and Info panels of Open dialogs.
- Fixed a bug which could result in Default Folder X failing to recognized the iCloud Drive folder in certain situations.
- The toolbar no longer comes up underneath the Dock when the Dock is positioned on the side of the screen.
- The color icons for the toolbar and the iCloud icon are more attractive.
- The license entry window can no longer get lost under other windows.
- Fixed minor bugs, memory leaks and infrequent crashes.
Version 5.1.9
Feature enhancements:
- Added a new "Recently Closed" submenu to the Finder Windows menu so you can easily re-open recently closed Finder windows.
- When the Hide Extension checkbox is turned on in a Save dialog, Default Folder X will ensure that the resulting file has its extension hidden in applications that don't properly support extension hiding (like Google Chrome).
- Added better workarounds for a bug in High Sierra that prevents Default Folder X from knowing which item is selected in a file dialog.
- Added an option (available with a Terminal command) to make Default Folder X use color icons in its toolbar. Enter this command in Terminal: "defaults write com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderX5 colorToolbar 1"
Bug fixes:
- The green gumdrop on the preferences window is now enabled or disabled correctly depending on whether the current preference tab is resizable.
- Desktop and Documents folders on iCloud could sometimes confuse Default Folder X. It now correctly handles them.
- Fixed a potential crash that could occur when Default Folder X relaunched the Finder.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to crash at random times.
Version 5.1.8
- Fixed a problem with Default Folder X not recognizing the currently selected file or folder in some Open and Save dialogs on High Sierra. This caused previews, comments and tags to be missing in DFX's attribute window, as well as causing Copy, Rename, Move to Trash, and other commands to fail.
- When Default Folder X relaunches the Finder after adding or removing itself from Finder window toolbars, windows that are open in the Finder will be properly saved and restored.
- You can now enter relative paths with spaces in them when using Default Folder X > Preferences > Folders > Favorites > + > Add Path or URL.
- If you add an application to Default Folder X's exception list and that application is already running, Default Folder X will now warn you that you have to quit and relaunch the app before changes will take effect.
- Fixed a problem with packaged files (such as RapidWeaver documents) not getting added to Default Folder X's recent file history.
- Corrected a bug that could cause Default Folder X's preference file converter to crash when importing v4 preferences.
- Folder switching did not work correctly in Pro Tools' Import Audio file dialog. This has been fixed.
- If an alias is selected, Default Folder X will show a preview of the original file or folder.
Version 5.1.7
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to hang for up to a minute when switching folders in a Save sheet.
- Corrected an intermittent problem where Default Folder X couldn't determine which folder was showing in a file dialog in High Sierra.
- Removed the compatibility warning for Tencent's QQ app if you're running QQ version 6.1 or higher, since that version fixes the conflict.
- The purchase reminder alert will no longer pop up while you're trying to enter your license information.
- Corrected a bug that could cause Default Folder X to crash when moving an item to the Trash.
- Fixed a crash in Default Folder X's window drawing code.
Version 5.1.6
- Compatible with High Sierra (macOS 10.13).
- The Finder-click feature's "choose the desktop" option now highlights the desktop with "holes" where Finder windows are located.
- You can now enter relative paths for Favorites. If you use a consistent structure for organizing projects, it can be very helpful to set a favorite such as "../images/" to go to an adjacent "images" folder and be able to use the same folder in multiple locations. To enter a relative favorite, choose "Add Path or URL" after clicking the '+' icon in Default Folder X > Preferences > Folders > Favorites.
- Previews for aliases are now displayed correctly, rather than just showing the file's alias icon.
- Default Folder X no longer adds duplicate tags when you use the macOS-supplied tag field in Save dialogs.
- Fixed a bug that caused unsaved comments or tags to disappear if you switched from a Save dialog to another application and then back to the Save dialog.
- Default Folder X’s drawer no longer appears when you enter Time Machine.
- Open and Save dialogs that appear as floating windows instead of normal modal dialogs are now handled correctly.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to incorrectly remember the last state of a Save dialog.
- Corrected UI glitches in Finder-click when using Default Folder X's "Minimal Toolbar" appearance.
- Icons in the Drop Zone are now loaded when they're needed, eliminating problems with the icons appearing blank when they can't be supplied by QuickLook at startup.
- Switching folders using Default Folder X's menus now works consistently in file dialogs brought up when changing preferences.
- Fixed a problem with Default Folder X getting confused in certain situations when you clicked on an alias in column view.
- Eliminated flashing in the user interface when you click on a disclosure triangle in a Save dialog.
- Corrected improper scaling of preview images that could occur in some circumstances.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking on the sidebar in file dialogs.
- Added an API that allows software developers to disable Default Folder X for special file dialogs in their Mac applications.
- Added a warning about Tencent's QQ chat app because it disables DFX's folder switching feature.
- Several memory leaks and potential crashes have been eliminated.
- Updated Default Folder X's icon.
Version 5.1.5
- Default Folder X now recognizes Save As dialogs when they're in 'minimized' mode. Because it can't provide its full functionality in that state, it provides a button to maximize the dialog so you can take advantage of its full feature set.
- Eliminated a bug that could cause Default Folder X to unexpectedly quit.
- Corrected a problem that could cause the Save button to stop working in some Save As dialogs.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to function incorrectly if you clicked the app's icon in the Dock while it was displaying a file dialog. This affected Office 2011 and older Adobe Creative Suite apps, among others.
- Corrected a problem with Default Folder X not working correctly when its toolbar overlapped the Dock.
- Default Folder X's toolbar no longer disappears when using a shortcut containing the Control+Option modifier keys.
- Fixed a bug that caused shortcuts containing the Shift key to display incorrectly in Default Folder X's menus.
- Remedied problems with shortcuts not working when the Caps Lock key was on.
- Corrected some visual glitches that occurred with Default Folder X's 'minimal toolbar' appearance.
- Improved switching between Spaces while a file dialog is open.
- Eliminated several memory leaks.
Version 5.1.4
- The Favorites menu in file dialogs now includes commands to remove or edit the current default folder.
- If you set tags using the standard macOS tag field at the top of a Save dialog, Default Folder X will copy the tags to its tag field below the Save dialog.
- Corrected a problem that could cause Default Folder X to hang at certain times, especially when App Tamer stopped an application in the background.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to leak memory or behave oddly when you opened a file dialog and then very quickly closed it.
- Corrected a bug that caused Default Folder X to stop functioning when selecting a new original for an alias in the Finder.
- Worked around a bug in Spotlight that could cause Default Folder X to crash.
- Made Default Folder X's folder switching in file dialogs more reliable.
- Fixed a bug that could cause spurious crashes.
- Updated the icons in Default Folder X's menubar menu.
- Default Folder X will no longer be included in VoiceOver keyboard traversal because it makes it difficult to navigate the controls in file dialogs.
Version 5.1.3
- Improved the tracking of recent files in Microsoft Office 2011 and other older applications.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if you dismissed a file dialog immediately after it opened.
Version 5.1.2
- Fixed a bug that could cause spurious crashes.
- Corrected a problem that could cause Default Folder X to use more memory than it should.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when you attempted to perform an operation (Duplicate, Move, Copy, etc) on a broken alias.
- Turned off HockeyApp metrics reporting so Default Folder X no longer contacts hockeyapp.com or visualstudio.com.
- Updated to version 1.15.1 of the Sparkle automatic update checking framework.
Version 5.1.1
- Eliminated a conflict with DwellClick.
Version 5.1
Feature enhancements:
- New Move, Copy and Make Alias commands let you reorganize your files from within Open and Save dialogs.
- You can change a file's creation and modification dates by clicking on them in the Info panel below Open dialogs.
- Selecting an item from one of Default Folder X's menus while holding the Command key will reveal it in the Finder.
- Default Folder X can create folders in your Library folder for Favorites, Recent Folders and Recent Files. They contain aliases to the folders and files shown in Default Folder X's menus, and can be used as a way to access Default Folder X's data from other applications. You can turn this on in the Options tab of your Default Folder X preferences.
- You can now set keyboard shortcuts to switch between folder sets.
Bug fixes:
- Corrected several bugs that could result in Default Folder X mysteriously disappearing from the menubar.
- Fixed reliability issues when changing between folders while the system is busy.
- Fixed a bug that could result in tags and comments not being applied when setting them in a Save dialog.
- Eliminated a hang that occurred when you had two Finder windows open, both showing the same folder, and tried to use a keyboard shortcut to go to the folder shown in the next Finder window.
- When switching to iCloud in Default Folder X's Computer menu, you're now taken to the iCloud Drive folder rather than the root iCloud folder.
- Corrected a bug that caused the Drag Zone to show duplicate copies of items and could also make those items impossible to remove.
- Changing the "Locked" checkbox in the Info panel will no longer prevent you from unlocking a file or folder later.
- After trashing a file or folder, the file listing in the file dialog will update immediately to show the change.
- Eliminated crashes caused by Default Folder X's helper services failing to run.
- Fixed a problem with Default Folder X warning you multiple times when you remove its menu from the menubar.
- Corrected problems displaying the names of folders that contained a single quotation mark.
- Fixed a problem with file dialogs flickering when dismissing a modal alert.
- The Folder Sets menu no longer gets confused when you delete a folder set.
- Added a way to save debug logs so we can bypass Sierra's terrible Console logs.
Compatibility fixes:
- Default Folder X's controls will no longer overlap Keyboard Maestro windows that pop up while a file dialog is showing.
- Corrected a problem where Default Folder X wouldn't remove its controls when a popup menu popped up.
- Worked around a bug in Sierra that would cause sheet-style file dialogs to be the wrong size if Default Folder X was used to save and restore their sizes.
- Added support for PDF Studio.
Version 5.0.7
- Worked around a crash that occurs at startup under macOS 10.12 Sierra.
- Fixed problems handling minimized Save dialogs. This was causing Default Folder X not to appear in Save dialogs when it should.
- Brought back the hidden pref that makes file dialogs start in the topmost document's folder when exporting or printing.
- Corrected problems detecting the current folder when running on systems for which Default Folder X isn't localized.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an inoperative file dialog to be left on-screen.
- Panels in the preferences that contain lists are now resizable.
Version 5.0.6
- Added support for macOS 10.12 Sierra.
- Added an option to keep Favorites sorted by name.
- Default Folder X will now hide its controls if LaunchBar pops up while a file dialog is displayed.
- Added support for version 3 of iTerm2.
- Fixed a problem with the cursor sometimes disappearing.
- Fixed a hang that could leave a file dialog on the screen until you quit Default Folder X.
- Default Folder X shortcuts are correctly disabled in an application that is in the exclusion list in your preferences.
- Fixed a bug that resulted in Default Folder X failing to appear in an application until the app was quit and relaunched.
- The Finder-window menu would sometimes fail to show some windows. This has been fixed.
- Default Folder X now correctly recognizes the active tab in a Finder window rather than using the first one.
- Corrected a bug that caused the rebound feature to fail in a few applications, including Silhouette Studio.
- Default Folder X will work correctly with CoverFlow view if a file dialog uses it, even though it's no longer a selectable option in 10.11+.
- Preferences are only saved when necessary, reducing disk I/O and delays when waking from sleep.
- Default Folder X's launch speed has been improved.
Version 5.0.5
Version 5.0.4
- You can now create a new folder set directly from the Folder Set menu.
- The toolbar can now be aligned with the top of file dialogs as well as the middle.
- Added an option to sort the menus for subfolders of recent folders by name instead of by date.
- Default Folder X now supports reduced transparency when it's turned on in System Preferences.
- When a default folder was set to be used in an application once, Default Folder X would mistakenly use it every time in some applications. This has been fixed.
- Compatibility issues with Magnet and HyperDock have been resolved.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to use more energy than necessary.
- Default Folder X no longer stops working if its rebound feature encounters an error.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to hide its controls when you clicked on the column headers in a file dialog.
- Fixed a bug that could result in comments not getting saved correctly when saving files.
- Eliminated several bugs that caused Default Folder X to crash or hang.
- Improved reliability when running on Yosemite.
Version 5.0.3
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to hang or stop enhancing Open and Save dialogs.
- Eliminated a crash that could occur when selecting favorite or recent folders.
- Corrected reliability issues when switching folders.
- Fixed some situations where rebound didn't work.
- Resolved a problem with tags sometimes not being applied when saving a file.
- When you select a smart folder or search in a file dialog, the path menu no longer gets confused.
- Fixed a crash when revealing a favorite folder in the Finder.
- Holding down the Option key changes the "Copy Path" commands so they copy just the file or folder name rather than the entire path.
Version 5.0.2
Feature enhancements:
- Default Folder X 5.0.2 is faster and more reliable.
- Localized in Japanese, French, German and Danish.
- Default Folder X now detects that a file dialog has closed even if an application performs a long operation afterwards.
- Rebound (reselecting the last selected file in a folder) is turned on by default in column view. If you use the keyboard to navigate in file dialogs, you may want to turn this off. To do so, hold down the Option key while selecting Preferences from the Default Folder X menu in the menubar, then turn off "Re-select the last selected file in column view".
- Save dialogs are no longer auto-expanded every time you use one. This is still done once, but after that, Default Folder X will leave it in whatever state you left it.
- There's now an "extra settings" preference dialog that allows you to fiddle with various details. Hold down the Option key while choosing Preferences to get to it.
- When multiple items are selected in an Open dialog, Default Folder X's preview view will show a preview of the first item rather than turning off previews.
- Alias files are now resolved when using Option-arrow keys to traverse recent folders.
- There's now a dark background behind the name of a Finder window when you hover over it so that the name is more legible.
- Changed Finder window tracking so that Default Folder X's list of windows is updated immediately if you quit the Finder or Path Finder.
- The user guide is now online, making the Default Folder X application take up less disk space.
- Applications will no longer appear in the Recent Files list.
- Folder sets are always sorted alphabetically.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to hang during startup.
- Fixed problems with Default Folder X not enhancing some file dialogs.
- Corrected a problem with Default Folder X's controls popping up after a file dialog closed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Save button to stop working when printing to PDF files, saving files in Word or saving attachments in Mail.
- Fixed problems with tags and comments not being added to files from Save dialogs.
- The Finder drawer now correctly appears on All My Files and search result windows.
- Fixed a number of crashes, including ones in the recent file and folder menus, license code entry, building the utility menu, and the drag zone.
- Corrected a bug that caused the path menu (above the file listing in file dialogs) to be incorrect on some occasions on non-English systems.
- When importing v4 preferences, default folders aren't added if the application they're associated with can't be found.
- If you have a file dialog open and Option-click to switch to another application, DFX no longer mistakenly thinks the dialog has closed.
- Default Folder X's toolbar and icons were sometimes offset by 23 pixels when running in Full Screen mode. This has been fixed.
- Default Folder X will no longer put its windows behind the Dock if it's at the bottom of your screen.
- Names of items in the drag zone no longer get left on your screen when a file dialog closes.
- Fixed Reveal in Finder in the Favorite folder preferences so it works correctly.
- The contents of Default Folder X's preference tabs are no longer occasionally mis-aligned.
- User interface glitches and misalignment of items have been fixed.
- Fixed Default Folder X's SetSaveName AppleScript command so it works correctly.
- DFX would sometime pop up an incorrect confirmation about importing your preferences after a software update was installed. This has been fixed.
Compatibility fixes:
- Default Folder X now disables its keyboard shortcuts when Alfred 2 pops up its window.
- Fixed a bug that resulted in Default Folder X's controls not hiding when they should while dragging a window in InDesign.
- Fixed compatibility with Final Cut Pro's Share dialogs.
- Default Folder X now works in TextMate 1.x.
- DFX now works in Finder Get Info windows when retargeting aliases.
- Fixed a conflict with MailPlane 3 that would cause it to always default to your Applications folder.
- Fixed a conflict with Yoink.
- Enabled Default Folder X in MKVToolNix, Spearfish III, Stingray and Infix.
- Regardless of your preference settings, Default Folder X will no longer default to a document's parent folder in ProTools because it causes problems for plugins.
- Updated to Sparkle 1.13 (even though Default Folder X wasn't susceptible to the recently reported Sparkle security issue).
Version 5.0.1
This release contains a few small bug fixes, plus changes to make the installation and upgrade process clearer.
- When the preview pane auto-sizes itself below a file dialog, it will no longer go behind the Dock.
- When relaunching the Finder, it's now launched in front if it was in the front when it quit.
- Switching to the dark theme no longer causes the Finder drawer "+" icon to turn white.
- The Accessibility permission prompt on first launch now includes a reminder to click the lock icon to make changes.
- You're now offered the option to enter a new license code if the check of your existing code determines that you need to buy an upgrade. This should alleviate confusion for people that buy the upgrade first and then install Default Folder X.