File Open / File Save

I think everyone is familiar with the default dialog that appears in most applications when you select "Open" or "Save". You have a list of locations on the left, and a list of files on the right, and there's even a Spotlight search bar.
Here's a big important question that nobody I know personally has any answer for!
How do I sort the list of files by size or by type?
How do you sort files by anything other than Name and Date, which so far as I can presently tell, are the only two available columns? This has driven me totally nuts a few times. I can sort by whatever I like in the Finder, in basically all other GUI OS's you get this flexibility in the file dialogs, so why not this particular and very frequently used area of OS X? Or am I bonkers, missing something obvious? I just want to sort my files, is that so much to ask!

Hi Petro,
being a web application, dynpro has restriction on accessing the local machine's file system. The way out is using the FileUpload and FileDownload UI elements.
If you want the "cancel" option, can you try a pop-up window that serve this purpose ?
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Hi All,
See my below script, when I run this script in my InDesign files within folders containing subfolders it open and save my folder files twice and subfolder files once.
Could anybody please help me out why my folder files open and save twice. Subfolder code is working fine.
Thanks,
Mon
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folder
├── a.indd
├── b.indd
└── subfolder
├── c.indd
└── d.indd
Hi, I run your code to folder like above,it open documents such as
"a.indd, b.indd, a.indd, b.indd, c.indd, d.indd"
a and b open twice.
so fix code
myFilePath = new Folder (myFilePath); // remove bracket for 'myFilePath'
myFilePathContents = new Array(); // remove getting .indd, they are added later in mySubFolders()
mySubFolders(myFilePath); // remove 2nd mySubFolders(), why run twice?
and then, run code and documents will open like
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mg

How do I set the default folder for file - open file... ?

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Originally posted by: kwarner.uneedspeed.net
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I ask a question here as a last resort -- after I've done what I think
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> DemonDuck wrote:
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Hi Bjorn,
Based on my understanding, you could open SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio application. The issue was that error message "Visual Studio has encountered an unexpected error" was thrown out when you tried to open a file in SSMS.
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Word 2013 shows full UNC path instead of local "Documents" folder on file Open and Save

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Seattle User,
One big bottleneck is your I/O. Nowadays, there are very few reasons to partition any physical HDD. If you feel the need to do so, make sure that nothing related to PS is on that second partition - nothing. I'd also make sure that your Windows Page File is not on it either - nothing but maybe documents, or other non-image assets.
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It appears that at least one of these machines is a laptop, maybe both. You will get better results without the partitions. If the case can hold more physical HDDs, then I'd add 'em. My laptop has 3x 200GB 7200RPM drives, and I can do SD video in real time on it.
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(I posted this elsewhere, hope this helps you as you did not have any responses. )
Big horrible slowdowns in file transfer over wireless have me pulling my (remaining) hair out.
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Hello,
Is there any way by which we can restrict the user from selecting the path from the Folder Browser/ File Open/ File Save dialog boxes?
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Hello Vinay Pugalia,
>>For example, I have a list of paths & want to allow the users to select from those paths or their sub folders. Is there any way to achieve this?
As far as I know, starting with Windows Vista, the Open and Save As common dialog boxes have been superseded by the
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https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/site/requests
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