Open & Save Dialog Window Location

It's a hard one to give a name to, that's why I can't seem to find it on a search.
Basically, I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to get the "save dialog" to not sit over the top of a program when it comes up.
Best example is MS Word 2008 (mac) - when I go to save, it covers the file i'm saving (which has the filename I need to use in it !)....it would be far better to have it dockable/undockable and have it off to the side of the programs window, or at least, not locking it into one place.
Anyone know of plans for upgrades to Leopard including this or any workaround/solution ?

Paul,
The save dialog box, which is called a "Sheet", does not sit over the program when it comes up, but instead slides out of the document's title bar. This is actually considered a feature of Mac OS X and will probably never be changed.
In the past, the Save Dialog Box used to float on top of all other documents or windows, which sometimes caused problems when you had multiple documents open. This was especially a problem when you quit an application and you couldn't tell which document you were saving. It was also a problem because you couldn't do anything else with your Mac until you actually saved the document.
I apologize for being curious, but I have to wonder how the Save "Sheet" is covering the filename you need to use if you haven't yet saved the file? The temporary filename Word gives to your document when it is created is not covered up by the Save "Sheet" at all.
Keith

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Painfully slow open/save dialog windows

Before anyone asks, no I don't have a .Mac account and I'm not using iDisk.
So it's not that
Basically, regardless of the app. whenever I select a file in the open file dialog window, I just get a spinning beach ball for about a minute or more. It's driving me crazy. I have repaired permissions, I have repaired the disk, and I have run DiskWarrior over the drive too. No change.
If anyone mentions a reinstall, I'll kill them. I have a 142 applications in my app's folder I don't want to reinstall them all - I just want to get my work done. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
G5 Dual 2.5, 20 Apple Monitor Mac OS X (10.4.6) Dual 2.5 PPC. 4.5 GB Ram.

been yonks I know, but finally tried all things suggested, and the console seems to point the way, but I can't find what it's referencing in the error loop below (any help deeply appreciated):
-- Console Log --
Mac OS X Version 10.4.6 (Build 8I127)
2006-06-03 23:07:39 +1200
Jun 3 23:07:46 TheBridge mDNSResponder: Attempt to register record with invalid rdata: 262 YM4476FQQPP.ttp4daemon.tcp.482311386456084. SRV <<INVALID LABEL LENGTH
2006-06-03 23:07:51.610 SecurityFixer[309] No insecure startup items found!
2006-06-03 23:07:51.901 SystemUIServer[286] Normally CPUMenuExtra would not have been loaded as a Menu Extra.
Jun 3 23:07:54 TheBridge /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSReadObjectFromCString is obsolete. Use of this function may cause an overall degradation in the performance of this application, or of the system as a whole.
Jun 3 23:07:54 TheBridge /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSCreateDictionary is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Jun 3 23:07:54 TheBridge /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSDictionary is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Jun 3 23:07:54 TheBridge /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSDictionarySetObjectForKey is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Jun 3 23:07:54 TheBridge /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSSetGStateAttribute is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Jun 3 23:07:54 TheBridge /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSGetElementForCStringKey is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Jun 3 23:07:54 TheBridge /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer: The function CGSDictionaryObjectForKey is obsolete and will be removed in a Tiger update. Unfortunately, this app, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.
Jun 3 23:08:09 TheBridge configd[84]: SecKeychainFindGenericPassword err= -25308 ( =0xffff9d24, secErrStr=User interaction is not allowed. ) (current= MoonBaseNet)
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Open/Save Dialog does not show new files?

Say you are working on a logic file in a folder and you have
a few audio and movie files in that folder, and you launch
Logic and via the open/save dialog window you add a few
files to your song and in that dialog window you can see
all the files in that folder.
Then, in the Finder you add a few more files and movies to
that folder and again use the open/save dialog window to
add more files BUT the new files you added since launching
logic are NOT SHOWN in the dialog window ! ?
What's the deal with that?
Every other app can show files added since the launch of the
application, why not Logic?
PowerBook G4 1GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

project manager
um, yeah.
Should not need the project manager simply to see new files added to a directory in a Open/Save dialog window since last opening the app.
I did a scan, a extended scan, opened all the little turn down arrows of the
full path to the directory I knew there to be the new files and yes, Logic
shows them there in the "Project manager".
BUT Logic still does not show the files in the Open/Save dialog windows.
This is strange because even simple app like TextEdit can show
new files in it's Open/Save dialog function windows without the need of
a project manager.
I have to quit and re-launch each time to see any new files?

Multiple desktops etc in Open/Save dialogs

I have not found that this causes an actual problem (so far) but it is strange and anoying.
Recently, when doing a "save as" I found to my surprise that I had 2 "desktop" icons in the dialog window. As the days have gone by, this has grown to 16. Also 16 copies of all the icons from the side-bar. This is in both open and save dialog windows.
Recently I installed Modul8 and also I have used Vue 5 (which has crashed and refused to open since) but I cant see that this multiple copies in open/save dialog-windows is connected to this.
I have run Onyx, but it did not fix the problem.
Any ideas?

See if macjack's solution works for you:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4445080&#4445080
If not, let us know.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

File Open/Save dialog

Hi,
One of my pet peeves about Jdeveloper and by extension of SQLDeveloper is that the file open/save dialog does not have quick way to navigate to familiar places on my computer like "My Documents" or "Desktop". For eg., in Word, I can navigate to My Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places.
I know Jdeveloper and SQLD are also meant for the Unix Platform, but having shortcuts like My Network Places, Desktop, My Computer etc atleast for the Windows based tools would make it immensly easier to find files.
Something even better would be to allow each person to customize that list of shortcuts he can have in that list.
Thanks
Alex

Yes, this is absolutely necessary for Windows users!
In a non-java Windows application I can usually put a shortcut to my favored directory in the directory an application might default to, then double-click it and the windows environment is smart enough to move to that directory, and I can save my files.
Java is stupid in this regard. It thinks you are trying to save the file to the name of the shortcut. I CANNOT stand an application that isn't smart enough to set preferences to default file locations!
I should also add that I set the USER_DIR to the directory I save all my files in (on my u:drive) and SQL Developer then runs those files without the entire path (I can just put in @a for example) but it is too STUPID to save to this directory!
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Check if file downloaded successfully , through Open Save dialog box

hi,
In the jsp I have a download link through which user can download a file which is located on the server . I have achieved this by setting the response type in servlet as follows => response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName); .When the jsp page loads the user is shown a Open Save dialog box for downloading the file. The user can download the file or cancel the operation.
But now I need to track if the user has downloaded the file successfully on his m/c , depending on which a flag will be updated in the database . I am not able to track this event . Pls help how I can check if the file has been downloaded successfully and do further processing.

This is fully dependent on the client side. You can never rely on that.
In most cases you could check if any byte of the file is written to the outputstream and/or no IOException is been thrown, but some webbrowsers (such as Firefox) will download the file immediately while the client still need to choose 'save' or 'cancel'. Only when the client chooses 'cancel' the download will be aborted and the file will be deleted. But if the file is small and/or the network is fast, then the file download might be already completed at that time.
Again, you can never rely on what happens at the client side.

Why can't I sort in Open/Save dialog boxes?

Ever since I upgraded to ML, I found that I am unable to sort the listing in open/save dialog boxes. Currently the folder contents (List view) are all sorted by reverse Name. There are times I rather sort by Modification Date or Creation Date.
The regular finder windows work as expected (click to sort, two clicks to reverse sort), but it seems this functionality have been removed from the Open/Save dialog boxes. I've searched for any tips/hints, but have been unable to find anything. Help.

v3ktor.com wrote:
Could not find the sorting function in the open dialogs before coming here. Really bad interaction design from Apple. It took me ages to figure it out. And if you sort it on "name" how do you switch A-Z or Z-A?
You are not sorting, you are Arranging (ie grouping). In the Open file dialogs, you don't have an option to Sort.
If you want to sort the items, set Arrangement to None and use the List View. Click the headers to sort. If you want to add more headers, right-click on the headers to select them.
In the regular Finder Windows, the options when you click on that button without any modifiers is the Arrangement options. Arrangement groups items by those criteria. By Name is like Sort, but without an option to switch direction.
If you press that button (or use the menu command in Finder) while holding down the Option (alt) key, you will get the sort options. If you have an arrangement set, then the Sort option will sort within the groups. Some Arrangements have no sort option (like by Name) because it doesn't make any sense. If you just want to Sort, then set Arrangement to None and use the Sort option to sort.

Search result opening open\save dialog

When clicking a search result link the open\save dialog is propmting the user
to save or open instead of opening the document directly.
Its a dcox document and the web appication is set for premessive browsing.
Looks like browser configuration to me but i cant figure out which one.
The site is in the trusted sites list and opening the documents from the doclib (not search results) is fine.
Thanks.

Also check
http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2008/10/27/adding-an-edit-document-link-to-enterprise-search-results.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/sharepoint-server-help/change-how-to-open-a-document-in-a-library-with-one-click-HA101729873.aspx
Set the default open behavior for browser-enabled documents
Note    To change the settings on a library, you must have design permission for the library or be the owner of the library.
Navigate to the site where you want to change the setting for the library.
Click the name of the library on the Quick Launch, or click Site Actions
, click
View All Site Content, and then in the appropriate libraries section, click the name of the library.
Note    A site can be significantly modified in appearance and navigation. If you cannot locate an option, such as a command, button, or link, contact your administrator.
In the ribbon, under Library Tools, click the Library tab, and then in the
Settings group, click Library Settings.
On the List Settings page, under General Settings, click
Advanced Settings.
On the Document Library Advanced Settings page, in the
Opening Documents in the Browser section, under Default open behavior for browser-enabled documents, do one of the following:
To open a document with one click by using an application installed on your computer, click
Open in the client application.
To open a document that is browser-enabled in the browser with one click, click
Open in the browser.
To use the default server-wide setting (which is set by the farm administrator), click one of the following:
Use the server default (Open in the browser). You see this option if the site server setting has been defined to open in the browser.
Use the server default (Open in the client application). You see this option if the site server setting has been defined to open in the client application.
Note    This default server-wide setting affects other features that contain links to the document including the following: hyperlink fields, fields on the View properties page, links on the Version History page, the
View commands on the item context menu, links in e-mail messages, workflow status pages, and search results.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/officeasia/archive/2013/01/09/configure-sharepoint-server-to-open-office-documents-in-client-application-by-default.aspx
If this helped you resolve your issue, please mark it Answered

Open/Save Dialoge Box covers the whole screen - CS3/Vista

Hi,
I´m using Photoshop CS3 on Windows Vista and I have the following problem:
I can´t reduce the open/save dialoge box in Photoshop CS3 as I could in earlier versions, which I find very inconvenient.
It stretches over the whole screen and there seems to be no way of reducing it. There are handles at the corners but they don´t work.
Is this normal in CS3 or could it be just a wrong setting in Windows?
I hope somebody can help me on this, thank you so much!
Best regards,
Mike

Is this normal in CS3 or could it be just a wrong setting in Windows?
No, it's not normal. There are two things I can think of:
- the dialog repositioning feature of your graphics card is not working properly (NVidia Desktop etc.)
- you resized the dialog in another program and now the huge size has become the system default
In both cases the solution should be pretty obvious - either adjust the settings/ turn off the graphics card's special features or resize the dialog back in the program it was turned huge in the fi8rst place. For the latter, also checking your more general folder view options as well as manually deleting desktop.ini files may offer a way out.
Mylenium

Mac Open / save dialog boxes in AI CC 2014

Any help with this would be appreciated!
After updating to os x 10.10.3, only the 'name' appears on the open/save dialog box in AI CC 2014. Other CC apps are not affected. Toggling the view button DOES NOT fix the problem. Anyone else experiencing this?
Thanks

OS X Yosemite is doing this and it's also throwing the preview off the screen:
The mode in the photo of the earlier post, if you keep dragging the window over eventually you will get to the other options, but the File Open preview pane has become useless

10.6.4 - open-save dialog question

pls see this screenshot..
http://mayacove.com/misc/ssopen-savedialog.jpg
circled 'back' and 'forward' buttons are always disabled in open-save dialogs..
why is this.. how do I fix/configure..
thank you..

When that dialog opens, it's pointing to a location like desktop or downloads folder. In your screenshot it's pointing to "resume". Change the destination of the "save" to another folder. Then you'll see the back arrow become active. Pressing it will take you back to the orignial location.
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Open/Save Dialog, 9 min. Beachball Freeze

I am running OS 10.10.2 on a March 2009 iMac with 8GB RAM and 1TB HD.
PROBLEM: While working in Illustrator 18 (CC 2014), if I choose File > Open, the Open dialog appears but I get the spinning beachball for 9 minutes before file contents appear. I don't have the same problem in Photoshop or any other app. But after Googling, I see that a number of people have posted similar Console Log messages (see below) when using in a variety of apps in Yosemite, even in Apple's own Mail app. This tells me the root problem may not be specific to Illustrator, even though it only affects Illustrator in my case currently.
WHAT I TRIED:
1) Moved all Adobe Illustrator related PLISTS and preference files and folders to the Desktop and then launched Illustrator. I saw Illustrator rebuild new prefs files and all settings reverted back to stock. This proves my moving of the prefs to the Desktop was successful to cause a rebuild of new prefs and PLISTS. Even so, the BeachBall freeze appeared when I did a File > Open.
2) Rebooted with SHIFT held down (Safe Mode). But the beachball problem remains.
3) Disconnected all USB devices except keyboard/mouse, and turned off WiFi and BlueTooth, and even yanked my Ethernet cable. I also turned off Time Machine and Default Folder. But the problem remains, even through a reboot.
4) I removed DropBox and GoogleDrive and I closed all apps other than Illustrator, but to no avail.
5) Tried a Guest User, but that doesn't work with Adobe Apps. Ditto for a Standard user. You get an error dialog when you try to launch Adobe apps with that kind of user. So I then created an Admin user. Illustrator's Open dialog box displays files perfectly, as normal! A NEW ADMIN USER FIXES THE PROBLEM!
So a new Admin user fixes the beachball problem in the Open dialog, but for my normal Admin user there's the 9 min. beachball problem. And yet, SAFE MODE doesn't fix the problem while in my normal User. And neither does deleting Illustrator prefs. So it's clear there's still something lurking in my primary user account that is absent in the new Admin user account. But what? And how can I find it? (Migrating everything to a new User account is no easy task.)
Pertinent section of CONSOLE system.log:
Mar 6 13:27:03 iMac.local WindowServer[151]: disable_update_likely_unbalanced: UI updates still disabled by application "Adobe Illustrator CC 2014" after 15.00 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds). Likely an unbalanced disableUpdate call.
Mar 6 13:27:19 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: DNSAddressResolver:Resolve CFNetServiceResolveWithTimeout failed
Mar 6 13:27:19 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: ERROR: AFP_GetServerInfo - connect failed 64
Mar 6 13:27:49 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: DNSAddressResolver:Resolve CFNetServiceResolveWithTimeout failed
Mar 6 13:27:49 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: ERROR: AFP_GetServerInfo - connect failed 64
Mar 6 13:28:19 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: DNSAddressResolver:Resolve CFNetServiceResolveWithTimeout failed
Mar 6 13:28:19 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: ERROR: AFP_GetServerInfo - connect failed 64
Mar 6 13:28:24 iMac.local com.apple.SecurityServer[56]: Session 100025 created
Mar 6 13:28:49 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: DNSAddressResolver:Resolve CFNetServiceResolveWithTimeout failed
Mar 6 13:28:49 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: ERROR: AFP_GetServerInfo - connect failed 64
Mar 6 13:29:19 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: DNSAddressResolver:Resolve CFNetServiceResolveWithTimeout failed
Mar 6 13:29:19 iMac.local NetAuthSysAgent[858]: ERROR: AFP_GetServerInfo - connect failed 64
the above repeats while time elapses (I deleted this part for brevity)
Mar 6 13:35:40 iMac.local mds[33]: (Volume.Normal:2464) volume:0x7f9823863800 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:1 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/WORK_SPACE
Mar 6 13:35:42 iMac com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.TMHelperAgent.SetupOffer): Service only ran for 2 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 8 seconds.
Mar 6 13:35:42 iMac.local mds[33]: (Volume.Normal:2464) volume:0x7f9824087000 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:1 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/GLOBAL_SPACE
Mar 6 13:35:43 iMac.local WindowServer[151]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "Adobe Illustrator CC 2014" after 534.23 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
I get the exact same set of messages that you see above every time I try to reproduce the problem, simply by doing a File > Open in Illustrator.
I assume AFP is Apple File Protocol? But what "server" is it trying so desperately in vain to "Get"? And why is a DNS resolver being used?
Anyway, as you can see from the Console log above, the beachball in the Open/Save dialog in Illustrator goes away after 534 seconds (about 9 min.). But it reappears each time I try to go to a new folder on my HD within that Open dialog. Each time takes exactly 534 seconds each time for the stupid beachball to go away when changing folders in the Open dialog.
This beachball freeze (for 9 min.) in Illustrator's Open dialog occurred every once and a while over the last several weeks, but now it consistently happens. And no, I've not installed any new software on my iMac other than Yosemite updates.
Once again, I would prefer to fix the root problem in my primary user account rather than migrate to a New User even though I now know a new Admin user account resolves the problem.
Please help.

With regard to my cry for help...
Pretty please?
Here are links to other apps which show the same Console Log messages that I am seeing, proving this is not an issue exclusive to a single app:
Vmware & OS 10.10.2
Pertaining to networked HD's
Shared Mac on a Network
Prevents Time Capsule access and kills Time Machine too
OS 10.10 & Time Capsule woes
OS 10.9.2 & NAS woes
Yosemite & Time Capsule woes
iPhoto woes after Migration
More Time Capsule woes
Time Machine woes from Germany (translated)
mDNSResponder stuck in restart loop
If you read through all the above like I did, you're probably very tired by now. But if you had the same problem as I do, you would do anything to resolve it, hence my post here. So again, I plead for your kind help and attention to this problem!
The above links do tell me one thing, that a "network error" is at the heart of the Console log messages and my problem. And that remains true even when I've disconnected from the network entirely, leading me to believe that this is some sort of CACHING BUG. For truly, there is a Time Capsule at my office, and I do use Time Machine (although not saving to the TC but instead to an external FW HD). So... It is my guess that Yosemite has cached some network data it doesn't like and tries to access that data from a cache when the Open Dialog appears in Illustrator. But WHY ILLUSTRATOR in my case? It makes no sense to me at all. I would think it should consistently occur in the Open dialogs of all apps, but it's only in Illustrator.
I did have problems with my Time Machine backups after putting Yosemite on my iMac, but those issues were resolved in the 10.10.2 update.
In any case, if indeed it is a CACHING BUG, how then would I clear that stupid, evil cache?
Again, I would appreciate your kind thoughts and advice.
Thank you!

Open/Save Dialog Box SLOW

My Mac has slowed down to an absolute crawl. I have reinstalled the OS, run Disk Warrior, Disk Utility, removed my preferences folder to see if something in there was actin' up, I've repaired the permissions, etc... Yet in any application (whether it's Photoshop CS 2, Safari, TextEdit, doesn't matter), if I hit "open" from within that application... no exaggeration... it can take anywhere between 45 seconds to a little over a minute for the dialog box to finally appear!
The last thing I want to do is nuke my machine. I am so tired of that being the solution whenever something can't be fixed.
Has anyone run into this? Does anyone have any ideas what to do to fix this problem without nuking the machine?
(this hasn't been a problem at all until, maybe 3 months ago or so... and I've been running Tiger since it was released)

Holy cow. I am in complete shock.
...got up this morning, saw the suggestion 'bout the iDisk, figured I'd give it a try...
That was it!!! I've had a .mac account for years, have had my iDisk on my desktop for as long as I can remember. I wonder if something from software update somehow made my machine and the iDisk go "screwy" 'cause it started getting excruciatingly bad just a few months ago.
Thank you, thank you!! My machine has received a gigantic speed boost across the board, and the open/save dialog boxes now appear instantly when I call upon them, all my apps quit instantly now too. This is amazing! [breathes huge sigh of relief]

Open/Save Dialog Box Freeze

Hello,
Since updating to 10.4.7, the open/save dialog box freezes (beachball) after selecting a folder. Can anyone please point me in the right direction in solving my issue.
I used the ComboPPC updater and then ran Cocktail to repair permissions, cron scripts, clear caches etc.
I recently posted about the Finder freezing instead I should have mentioned that it was the Open/Save dialog box.
Regards,
David

Hi,
I am using model dialog box.
on page header i have copy The code as given in this http://jqueryui.com/dialog/#modal-message link
// page header code
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on URL TARGET value is ==javascript: myFunction();
where i have to write this code to bind my apex buttons with dialog box.
apex.submit(myRequest);the steps i have written above, am doing right or not? Please help to place the code in apex with a right way.
Thanks & Regards
Vedant
Edited by: Vedant on Jan 28, 2013 12:53 AM

Sort-by-type for column view in open/save dialog boxes?

Hello all,
I've done a fairly good search both on Google and in these forums and can't seem to find this question addressed. When I go to open or save something (in Preview, for example) I prefer to use Column View in the dialog box, since it is easy to see and navigate the folder structure. However, Column View always shows up sorted by name, even if I specified in Finder that the folder be sorted by type. Because of this, I have to scroll down and hunt for subfolders rather than having them conveniently listed at the top.
My question is this: is there a way to get Column View to sort by type in the open/save dialog boxes? (The Command+J that works in regular Finder does nothing in these dialog boxes.)
Thanks!

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