Photoshop Save Dialog

HI
Just wondering whether anyone knows if Adobe are planning on replacing the ancient Open/Save dialog with the proper one from the Windows API, or whether there is a plugin which will change this?
It really is irritating that they don't use it, as quite often I start in completely the wrong directory and have to go through about 50 folders before I get there.
I am using Adobe CS5.
Thanks
Luke

Quite literally, it IS actually one from the Explorer API - it's just not one with the more modern Windows 7 look and feel.
I believe they set it this way intentionally because the product still can be installed on older operating systems (XP in particular). Even though it's old, a quite significant percentage of Windows users run XP still - nearly half of them by one count.
With Windows 7 Pro and above you *can* set up the icons along the left side to point to useful places, by the way...
Click Start, type gpedit.msc in the search box and hit Enter.
When the Local Group Policy Editor comes up, navigate into:
     > User Configuration
     > Administrative Templates
          > Windows Components
         > Windows Explorer
          > Common Open File Dialog
Open the Items displayed in Places Bar setting.
Set it to Enabled, and edit the list of Places to display.
-Noel

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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.
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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.)
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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
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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.
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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:
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Pertaining to networked HD's
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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?
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Thank you!

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craig cheatham wrote:
it's like being pecked to death by ducks.
I wonder how many folks know what that really feels like...
Do I really need to insert a smiley?
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