For years, Default Folder has helped speed Macintosh users through the process of opening, saving, and managing files. In Mac OS X, the familiar Open and Save dialogs are missing some very necessary features and have some decidedly inconvenient quirks. Default Folder X enhances these dialogs by adding convenient features to quickly get you where you want to go. It also brings them together with the rest of OS X by letting you get to the same folders from the menubar and Dock.

Default Folder X makes your life easier with the following enhancements:

It shows you where you are

With Default Folder X installed, the top menu in a file dialog lists the active folder and its enclosing folders. Without Default Folder X, OS X overloads this menu with recently used items, favorites, and other navigational tools. Default Folder X puts those tools in their own menus in its toolbar, and gives you your bearings by showing you just your location in the menu.

Just click on a Finder window to go there

Have you got a folder open in the Finder and just want to get the Open or Save dialog to show the files in that folder? Just click on the window and Default Folder X will take you there. If you can't see the window at the moment because it's behind another one, a popup menu gives you a list of all of the windows open in the Finder. Just select the one you want from the menu!

It quickly takes you to recently used and favorite folders

Default Folder X's popup menus track folders you've used recently and give you fast access to your favorite folders. You can even assign command keys to your favorites to instantly jump to them in a file dialog or in the Finder, or use option-up-arrow and option-down-arrow to flip through folders you've used recently.

Navigate through layers of folders with a single click

Default Folder X makes menus in your file dialogs hierarchical. No more clicking through level upon level of folders to get to what you want. Just click and drag along the menus to quickly get from one folder to another.

It lets you click on a filename to copy it

In Save As dialogs, you can option-click on the name of an existing file to copy it to the edit box. No more retyping the same or similar filenames, or accidentally renaming a file when you click on an existing one.

Rename, delete, and get info on files without leaving the file dialog

Default Folder X provides a host of useful commands so you don't have to go rummaging around in the Finder just to do something simple like renaming a file.

It "rebounds" back to the last item that you selected in a folder

You no longer have to hunt through the file list for a particular document you were working on before lunch - this gets you to work much faster.

It puts the folders you use at your fingertips

When you really need to do more with a file or folder, use Default Folder X to open the folder shown in an Open or Save dialog in the Finder. Or use Default Folder X's convenient menu in the Dock or menu bar to access recent, favorite, and other useful folders at any time.