Version 6.2.3:
- Open Finder windows are now included in Quick Search results.
- Added icons to the About, Settings, Quick Start, Help and other menu items on Tahoe.
- Eliminated delays in Open and Save dialogs when switching between folders or automatically selecting the last opened file.
- Default Folder X's "QuickSearch" AppleScript verb takes a folder as a parameter so you can search only the contents of that folder.
- Worked around a bug in macOS 26.1 and later that resulted in the path menu in Open and Save dialogs not updating, the Quick Search keyboard shortcut not working reliably, and the list of Finder windows not updating after a window was closed.
- The "Open With" menu will only offer apps located in your Applications folders unless you turn on a checkbox in the Additional Settings (hold down the Option key while choosing Settings).
- You can change the font size of Default Folder X's menus using the Terminal command "defaults write com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderX5 menuFontSize 16".
- Tracking of recent files works correctly in Java apps when you select a file using a native macOS Open dialog.
- The Recent Files menu will show all recent files in Open dialogs presented by Keyboard Maestro macros.
- Re-enabled the ability to set a minimum size for Open dialogs in the Additional Settings.
- Fixed debug logging so it works correctly on macOS Tahoe.
Version 6.2.2:
- Icons of folders are tinted in Default Folder X's menus when a color tag has been assigned to them.
- The Bloom file manager is now supported. Its windows are recognized by Finder-click, and you can open items from Default Folder X's menus in Bloom.
- Holding down the Option key while selecting a folder from a Default Folder X menu will reverse the sense of the "open in a new window / open in the frontmost window" setting.
- When you switch between Folder Sets in the settings, Default Folder X will suggest adding a Folder Sets menu to the main menu if you haven't done so.
- Default Folder X's toolbar will now appear reliably when using File > Move To > Other or clicking in a document's title bar and selecting Where > Other.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Default Folder X to mistakenly re-select a file after switching to a new folder in a file dialog.
- Corrected selection and window activation issues in Open and Save dialogs on Tahoe.
- Turned off Tahoe's distracting animations when Default Folder X's Finder-click shadows appear and disappear.
- Fixed an issue where the Quick Search window would get stuck on screen after an incomplete drag-and-drop operation.
- Keyboard shortcuts in file dialogs that move focus to the filename or file list correctly remove focus from the Tags and Comments fields.
- Contextual menu items are enabled correctly for Quick Search results when searching within a folder.
- Previews of files work correctly in menus popped up from Finder window toolbars.
- The Compress command now preserves symbolic links.
Version 6.2.1:
- Corrected a problem with the search field in Open and Save dialogs prematurely hiding its menu.
- Fixed a bug that prevented menu item previews from showing enlarged images for some documents.
- Eliminated excessive CPU usage when viewing photos or other media in Open dialogs.
- Fixed crashes in several uncommon situations.
Version 6.2:
- Compatible with macOS 26 Tahoe.
- The Finder toolbar buttons have been rewritten to work better in Big Sur and later.
- The Open With submenu (hold the Command key while selecting a file in Default Folder X's menus) works more smoothly.
- Default Folder X now considers any file or folder added to the Downloads folder as a recent item, even if you haven't opened it.
- Worked around a bug in Adobe Creative Cloud 2025 apps (including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator) that resulted in incorrect text selection in Save As dialogs.
- A new GetRecentItems AppleScript command retrieves a merged list of recently used items that contains files, folders, apps and / or Finder windows.
- Added GetCurrentSet to Default Folder X's AppleScript dictionary and Shortcut actions to get the current folder set in scripts or shortcuts.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Save Actions from running after saving a file if the Actions tab wasn't visible in the Save dialog.
- Corrected issues with Copy'Em and App Tamer disabling the toolbar in file dialogs under some circumstances.
- Eliminated visual glitches in the path control located above the file listing in Open and Save dialogs.
- Fixed the display of metadata in the Info pane below Open dialogs when the dialog is very narrow.
- Default Folder X's popup menus are no longer covered by other menus in apps like Ableton Live.
- Fixed a bug that left the Quick Search window open after dragging an item from it to another app.
- Corrected the display of drag & drop instructions in the Finder drawer when it's empty.
Version 6.1.7:
- Holding down the Command key while selecting a file in Default Folder X's menus adds a submenu with options for handling that file. These include Open, Reveal in Finder, Copy, Copy Path, Share and Open With.
- The contextual menu in Quick Search now includes a Share command which brings up a standard Share sheet.
- Corrected an issue that prevented typing into app-specific edit fields in a Save dialog.
- Fixed a bug that could make two edit fields in a file dialog appear active at the same time.
- Default Folder X now correctly enhances Save dialogs in Quick Look previews (after trimming a video, for example).
- Fixed a bug that resulted in Default Folder X repeatedly performing certain operations, causing it to use more CPU than it needed to.
- Corrected a problem with data not refreshing properly in the Tags and Comments panes below Open and Save dialogs.
- Eliminated a rare crash that occurred when switching folders in an Open or Save dialog.
Version 6.1.6:
- Default Folder X now includes a Focus Filter that automatically switches to a specific folder set when you enter a macOS Focus mode. To use the Focus Filter, go to System Settings > Focus, click on the Focus that you want to trigger a particular folder set, then click Add Filter and select the Default Folder X filter. For more details see the St. Clair Software blog.
- Switching between folders in Open and Save dialogs is faster.
- Corrected problems when assigning keyboard shortcuts containing the Shift key.
- Fixed a bug that could make Finder-click show the wrong name for a Finder window.
- Resolved issues with keyboard focus getting confused in Save dialogs when using the Comment and Tags fields.
- Fixed a bug that could result in strange "File not found" errors when using the New Folder command on iCloud Drive.
Version 6.1.5:
- When using Quick Search, the contextual menu item for each file in the search results includes an "Open With" menu to open it with any capable application.
- In the Quick Search window, using the Command-M keyboard shortcut pops up the contextual menu for the selected result. Command-O brings up the Open With menu.
- Corrected problems with Default Folder X's toolbar using Dark Mode in Adobe apps even when the apps are running in Light Mode.
- Default Folder X correctly supports the Command-= keyboard shortcut to minimize and un-minimize Save dialogs.
- If you try to set a keyboard shortcut that's already used elsewhere in the system, you have the option to add it anyway.
- When you add a folder to be ignored in Default Folder X > Settings > Recent, any recent files or folders that lie within it will be removed from Default Folder X's menus immediately. Previously, the setting only applied to recent items accessed after the exclusion was added.
- Due to a bug in macOS, it's possible for the system's list of recent items to contain files and folders that have not been accessed recently. You can make Default Folder X ignore these by using this command in Terminal:
defaults write com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderX5 ignoreSystemSuppliedRecentItems -bool true
- Added support for the FileBot Java app.
Version 6.1.4:
- Corrected a bug that could cause Default Folder X to hang when you opened a Microsoft Word file stored on a SharePoint volume.
- After dragging items to a folder in the Finder drawer, the destination folder is opened with the newly moved or copied items selected.
- When dragging multiple files and / or folders to Default Folder X's menu bar icon or Finder drawer, the prompt to replace existing items now has an "Apply to All" checkbox.
- You can restrict searches in Quick Search by preceding them with "all:", "files:", "folders:", "apps:", "recent:", "favorite:", "finder:", "spotlight:". This works when typing in the Quick Search window or when invoking saved searches using URLs like defaultfolderx://QuickSearch?folders:searchstring, and is the same as selecting those options from the search menu.
- Corrected problems with Default Folder X failing to list and show Finder labels and colors if your Finder preferences were incomplete.
- Quick Search could sometimes include results that didn't completely match the current search. This has been fixed.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the Copy 'Em app from working properly in Save As dialogs.
- Improved error detection and reporting when syncing Default Folder X's settings via iCloud.
- There's an option in the Additional Settings to always hide the sidebar in file dialogs. Hold down the Option key when choosing "Settings" to get to it.
- The "defaultfolderx" URL scheme has new options to check for updates and bring up Default Folder X's About box:
defaultfolderx://Update
defaultfolderx://About
Version 6.1.3:
- Eliminated a crash that could occur upon opening a file dialog when tag information in your Finder settings was corrupted or missing.
- Fixed a bug that could result in crashes when the macOS window server delivered unexpected or erroneous data.
- Correctly detect Sequoia save dialogs that include a format popup (such as when saving RTF files in TextEdit).
- Default Folder X accurately tracks recent Microsoft Word documents stored on OneDrive and Sharepoint.
- Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when closing previews of certain media files.
- The construction of Default Folder X's hierarchical menus is faster.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when quitting Default Folder X.
- You can now bring up the Quick Search window using AppleScript or Shortcuts.
- The "defaultfolderx" URL scheme can be used to bring up Default Folder X's menu, Quick Search window, Finder drawer, and settings. These URLs will work after installing version 6.1.3:
defaultfolderx://Menu
defaultfolderx://QuickSearch
defaultfolderx://Drawer
defaultfolderx://Settings
Version 6.1.2:
- Corrected an issue on Sequoia that could result in various problems, including the failure of Finder-click, items not activating in Save dialogs, and user interface elements showing when they shouldn't.
- The handling of Finder labels has been completely revamped. Label colors now show correctly in Default Folder X's menus and Information panel.
- Fixed a bug in the Recent Folders and Recent Files menus that could cause errors if you delete a large number of recent items on disk.
- Default Folder X would sometimes keep the last previewed file open after using an Open dialog. This has been fixed.
- Quick Search puts more weight on how recently you used an item when sorting your search results.
- A warning is displayed when Default Folder X encounters a conflict with BetterMouse.
Version 6.1.1:
- Pressing the Quick Search keyboard shortcut a second time will hide the Quick Search window.
- Quick Search now considers sequential character matches to be more important, making the order of search results more intuitive.
- The AddFavoriteFolder AppleScript verb can add separators to Default Folder X's Favorites menu. Use the name "DXMenuSeparator" to add one.
- In file dialogs, holding down the Command key while selecting an item from Default Folder X's menus will reveal it. Note that some Open and Save dialogs cannot highlight some items, and will just take you to the folder enclosing that item instead.
- Fixed a bug that caused Default Folder X to replace the Format menu in Save dialogs with its path menu. This occurred on Sequoia in specific apps, including TextEdit, Skim and Bean.
- Corrected a problem that made Default Folder X's Finder toolbar buttons return to their default locations after you manually moved them.
- Default Folder X's Finder drawer will now appear correctly when Stage Manager is active with its app icons displayed on the right side of the screen.
- A conflict with the uBar and Sidebar apps would result in the path menu failing to update in Open and Save dialogs when running Sequoia. This has been fixed.
- Worked around a bug in Sequoia that disables Default Folder X's ability to track some user interface objects. This could confuse it or get its Finder Windows menu out of sync.
- In the Information panel below Open dialogs, the Finder label menu shows your favorite labels (set in your Finder settings) rather than the system's default labels.
- The Information panel now correctly shows the labels assigned to files stored in iCloud.
- Icon rendering in the Quick Search window has been made less CPU intensive.
- A few graphical glitches that occurred on Sequoia have been fixed.
Version 6.1:
- Compatible with macOS 15 Sequoia.
- Quick Search can be used to open web URLs that are saved in your favorites.
- You can now open folders in the Warp terminal app as well as in Terminal and iTerm.
- When selecting a web URL in Settings > Folders > Favorites, the full URL is displayed.
- Fixed a hang that could occur when clicking on the Recent Files menu in the menu bar when there are no recent files for the current app.
- Resolved an issue with Default Folder X losing track of a file dialog's current folder if the folder has a localized name (like ~/Movies/TV/Media/).
- Fixed problems with text color when selecting favorite and default folders in Settings > Folders.
- Default Folder X could hang when adding some https:// URLs as favorites. This has been fixed.
- Fixed flickering of the preview image displayed below Open dialogs.
Version 6.0.8:
- The previews below Open dialogs now play audio and video content.
- You can add web URLs as Favorites and Default Folder X will open them in your browser.
- There's now a warning when Default Folder X is run on an unsupported version of macOS.
- A keyboard shortcut is available for opening Default Folder X's settings. Set it at the bottom of the Shortcuts tab in your settings.
- Quick Search queries for Recent items will show recently closed Finder windows as well as recent files & folders.
- The information pane below file dialogs truncates very long filenames in the middle instead of at the end.
- The Shortcuts settings are more intelligent about keeping the Quick Search and Search All shortcuts in sync.
- The layout of the information pane has been improved to accommodate very long file and folder names.
Version 6.0.7:
- Fixed a bug that could cause folder switching to fail in Open and Save dialogs. This could result in the mouse cursor disappearing or the file dialog hanging until you clicked on it.
- Corrected two issues that could leave Default Folder X's toolbar displayed even when a QuickLook window popped up in front of an Open or Save dialog.
- Improved error handling when Default Folder X is unable to select the last selected file in an Open dialog.
- Fixed a problem with Open and Save dialogs hanging when using the macOS Accessibility Zoom feature.
- Improved the wording in the "Launch Default Folder X automatically when you log in?" dialog.
- Fixed the text alignment in the menu configuration sheet.
- Added a setting so you can use the left and right arrow keys to edit text in the Quick Search window. To move into and out of folders in the search results, use the Tab and Shift+Tab keys instead. Use this command in Terminal to enable the setting:
defaults write com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderX5 quickSearchTraversesWithTabKey -bool YES
Version 6.0.6:
- Fixed a bug that could cause slow performance when gathering information about files and folders in Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or Box Drive.
- In Microsoft Word Save dialogs, "Default to the current document's folder" now works with files saved in OneDrive.
Version 6.0.5:
- You can paste or type a complete path into the Quick Search window to open an item at that location.
- Default Folder X now shows the correct name, icon and location for OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox and Box folders.
- The history of recent Finder windows is updated when any tab of a Finder window is closed, not just when a window or its frontmost tab is closed.
- Items that you've added to the Finder drawer or Drag Zone are updated instead of being removed when the items they refer to are moved or renamed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a Finder window to jump back to its previous location and size after being resized if Default Folder X's drawer was attached to it.
- If you've customized the name of a Favorite, changing that Favorite to point to a different folder will not change its name.
- The ToggleFinderDrawer AppleScript command returns a boolean result indicating whether the drawer is open.
- Fixed a bug in Finder-click that prevented it from recognizing QSpace windows on a second display.
- There's a new Info button in the Folders tab of the settings to explain what a Folder Set is.
- Updated support for Alfred 5.
Version 6.0.4:
- Eliminated a delay that could occur when Save dialogs initially pop up.
- In the Menus settings, you can specify the app you want Default Folder X to use when opening folders.
- Added Finder-click support for QSpace and QSpace Pro. You must be using at least QSpace 4.2.1 or QSpace Pro 4.2.2.
- Quick Search results now include an icon to indicate whether the result was found in your favorites, recent items, or apps.
- When there is nothing in the search field, Quick Search will show a list of recently used items in all modes except Spotlight search.
- There's a new command in the Quick Search contextual menu to copy a file or folder to the clipboard so you can paste it in the Finder, into emails, etc.
- The Quick Search contextual menu contains commands to add or remove an item from favorites or from your recent history.
- Pressing Command-, (comma) in the Quick Search window will bring up Default Folder X's settings window.
- Added a keyboard shortcut to pop up the menu in the Quick Search window.
- Disabled "smart" insert and delete in the wide filename field in Save dialogs so extra spaces aren't added or removed when cutting and pasting.
- The menus for recent files, folders, apps and finder windows would display incorrectly after clearing all items in the menu. This has been fixed.
- Fixed a bug that prevented you from entering comments or tags in a Save dialog on Monterey or earlier.
- Improved the tracking of recently used files, folders and applications.
Version 6.0.3:
- Any folder or file opened or revealed using Default Folder X will be added to its appropriate "Recent" menu. Previously, items selected from Favorites would not be added.
- When selecting text in the filename edit field within Save dialogs, periods are treated as word boundaries in all cases, rather than just between the filename and extension.
- In the Quick Search window, pressing Option+Return copies the path of the selected item. This is reflected in the keyboard shortcuts shown in the contextual menu.
- Items dragged and dropped to Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar are added to its "Recent" menus.
- Command+S works correctly to confirm a Save As dialog with the wider filename edit field enabled.
- Added a "Close Drawer" command to the contextual menu for the Finder drawer.
- In the Tags pane below file dialogs, tags added using Default Folder X are listed before recent tags assigned to files and folders by other apps.
- Worked around a bug in Sonoma that caused menu items to shift to the right when the Option key was pressed to change the sorting order.
- In macOS Monterey and earlier, Spotlight, RayCast, Alfred and LaunchBar work correctly when invoked while a Save As dialog is on-screen.
- Fixed errors that occurred when recent items (Files, Folders, Apps or Finder Windows) were included inline in Default Folder X's menu.
- An alert is displayed if Default Folder X's menu bar icon is hidden behind the notch on newer MacBooks.
- Corrected a bug that could prevent recent menus from being sorted correctly.
- Added support for the Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) java app.
Version 6.0.2:
New features:
- In the Quick Search window, you can now browse through all recent items by hitting the Down Arrow key when there's no search string.
- Added Command-L as a default keyboard shortcut for "Enter Filename" in Save dialogs so you can easily move back to the filename edit field.
- Changed the layout of items in the Finder drawer so they're clustered together in the center rather than distributed across the entire width of the drawer.
- In Default Folder X > Settings > Recent, "Forget All Recently Used Items" now also removes recent Applications and the "rebound" history.
Bug fixes:
- Corrected problems that could cause Default Folder X to switch folders in file dialogs slowly or not at all.
- Resolved an issue that caused the cursor to disappear in file dialogs in macOS Sonoma.
- Fixed a bug that could result in a default folder not working if it applied to only a specific file extension.
- Fixed problems with keyboard focus and text selection in Save dialogs not working correctly under certain conditions.
- Fixed a bug that prevented double-clicking on items in the Drag Zone from working on some systems.
- Corrected an issue with Default Folder X's preview window failing to resize when a file dialog was moved.
- Fixed a problem with Default Folder X getting stuck if you tried to go to a hidden iCloud Drive folder in a file dialog.
- Resolved problems with slow or non-responsive file dialogs within Default Folder X's own settings window on Sonoma.
- Fixed a bug that caused Default Folder X to show recent items in some system folders when it shouldn't have.
- Resolved a bug when syncing settings via iCloud that could delete a folder set when iCloud Drive syncing failed in a particular manner.
- Fixed a problem that could cause the keyboard to stop responding if you customized Default Folder X's menu to show recent items in the top level of the menu rather than in a submenu.
- Corrected an issue that could result in Default Folder X's toolbar not aligning correctly with a file dialog after the dialog was moved from one display to another.
- Reenabled the user defaults option to show a custom color icon in the menu bar.
Version 6.0.1:
New features:
- There's an alternate style for Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar. You can change it in the General tab of the settings.
- The keyboard shortcuts for search options in the Quick Search window have changed and are now configurable in Settings > Shortcuts.
- Hitting the Quick Search keyboard shortcut twice in a row will pop up the window with a search mode of "All".
- In Quick Search, Command+Down Arrow steps through your previous searches.
- Quick Search now remembers your selected search mode across restarts.
- Applications in /System/Library/CoreServices will not be remembered in the Recent Apps history.
- The Finder toolbar menu will include the About / Settings / Help / Quit menu if Default Folder X's icon is turned off in the menu bar.
- Removed the option to hold down the Command key to open a folder in Terminal. This conflicted with the standard use of the Command key to reveal an item in the Finder.
- You can turn on a setting to disable Default Folder X's detection of apps that have custom dark themes. This reduces the frequency of notifications in Sonoma's menu bar telling you that Default Folder X is capturing your screen. Use this command in Terminal: "defaults write com.stclairsoft.DefaultFolderX5 toolbarIgnoresAppDarkMode 1".
- Inclusion of files and folders synced by cloud services is now disabled by default.
- Improved the appearances of the menu bar icon and Finder toolbar icons.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed a conflict which prevented TextExpander from working in Save dialogs.
- Resolved a bug that caused performance and stability problems on macOS 12 and earlier.
- Worked around a bug in Sonoma that sends keyboard input to the wrong text field in Save dialogs.
- Fixed a problem with the Finder toolbar buttons being unresponsive until Default Folder X was relaunched.
- Corrected a problem during drag and drop operations with menus not displaying folders that have large numbers of items.
- Fixed a problem with Save Action settings not being synced properly between Macs when iCloud sync is turned on.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when the menu bar menu was configured to have the About / Settings / Help / Quit items above another menu item.
- When validating a license, Default Folder X will always try to connect to our server so connection management apps like Little Snitch will prompt you to allow it. Previously, it wouldn't trigger Little Snitch because it wouldn't even try to connect after the system told it the host was unreachable.
- Corrected a bug in which some keyboard shortcuts couldn't be changed in Settings > Folders > Favorites after deleting a favorite.
- Changed license prompts to ensure consistent use of the term "License number" instead of "Serial number".
- Resolved a conflict that caused SnagIt's mouse tracking to slow down when taking screenshots.
Version 6.0:
Major new functionality:
- macOS 14 Sonoma is fully supported.
- In Save dialogs, the edit field where you type the name of the file is much larger.
- Default Folder X's toolbar in Open and Save dialogs offers multiple themes: System Appearance, Translucent and Dark.
- Quick Search provides keyboard-driven access to all of your favorites, recent files, folders, apps and Finder windows. Press Command-Shift-Space to access it.
- You can drag and drop files onto Default Folder X's icon in the menu bar. When you do so, it pops up its menu to let you choose the folder where the files will go.
- Default Folder X's menu in the menu bar can be reorganized and customized to fit your specific needs.
- When saving a file, you can choose Actions to execute after the file is saved. These include immediately opening the file, attaching it to an email, or sending it to an AppleScript, Workflow or Shortcut for further processing.
- Default Folder X's menu now offers submenus for Recent Apps and Recent Finder Windows.
- Your settings, favorites and recent items can be synced between multiple Macs via iCloud.
- The Finder drawer and Drag Zone have been rewritten to be more useful. They now fully implement drag and drop, including dragging to reorganize items, multi-selecting items, etc.
- Recently-changed items in specific folders can be excluded from Default Folder X's menus.
- Default Folder X's look and feel have been updated and refined.
Other new features:
- Finder label colors are shown in the menus.
- Recently used Applications are now tracked.
- The Finder Windows menu can now be sorted alphabetically by holding down the Option key.
- The Option key toggles Default Folder X's menu sorting between sort-by-name and sort-by-date.
- The path to a selected item is shown in the Info tab below Open dialogs. Click on the path to copy it.
- Keywords from PDF files are included in the metadata shown in the Info pane below Open dialogs.
- Finder-click optionally recognizes folders _within_ Finder windows, not just the folder associated with the Finder window itself. Enable this using Settings > Open & Save > Behavior > Choose folders within windows when you click on them.
- Support has been added for the macOS Shortcuts app so you can query and control Default Folder X from Shortcuts.
- Selecting "Show Item in Finder" in the Finder drawer or Drag Zone will open the item in an alternate file browser (like Path Finder) if one is configured and running.
- Finder-click now distinguishes between Finder, ForkLift and Path Finder windows by showing the icon of the app that owns them.
- Each time Default Folder X switches to a default folder, you'll see a reminder until you choose "don't tell me again". This should help folks who inadvertently configure a default folder and are later confused by the behavior.
- If you assign keyboard shortcuts to Default Folder X's menus in file dialogs, those shortcuts are shown in the toolbar's tooltips.
- When popping up a single menu using AppleScript, the menu items for Settings, About, etc will not be added to the bottom of the menu.
- You can set up an AppleScript to provide default filenames in Save As dialogs instead of just getting "Untitled". This can be used to add the current date to the default name, apply a standard naming convention for certain documents, etc.
- Default Folder X's ShowMenu AppleScript command now has an option to show a Recent Apps menu.
- Added more detail to the command descriptions in the AppleScript scripting dictionary.
- Improved support for the "increase contrast" mode that's available in System Settings > Accessibility > Display.
Improvements to the Settings:
- Settings have been reorganized to make them easier to navigate and understand.
- Settings for recent items, including excluding recent items within certain folders, have been given their own tab in the Settings window.
- You can reorder folder sets in Default Folder X > Settings > Folders > Edit Folder Sets. They can be dragged up and down in the list or moved using the arrow buttons.
- Favorites and default folders can be copied or moved between folder sets via a contextual menu in Settings > Folders.
- The Edit Folder Sets window is resizable and supports multiple selection (Command+click) for reordering and removing folder sets.
- You can turn on the tracking of recent items for cloud sync services on a service-by-service basis. When turned on, items synced from the cloud are treated as if you opened them.
- In Settings > Folders you can now select multiple favorites or default folders when reordering, deleting or showing them in the Finder.
- Favorite and default folders in Settings > Folders are now grayed out if they refer to a folder that's been deleted or moved.
- Added an option in Default Folder X > Settings > Menus to show items with color tags at the top of menus.
- There's a keyboard shortcut to move keyboard focus to the file listing in Open and Save dialogs.
Bug fixes:
- Switching between folders in Open and Save dialogs is more reliable.
- Fixed the assignment of keyboard shortcuts in Recent menus so they're on the correct items when menus are sorted by name rather than by date.
- If a minimized Save dialog pops up, Default Folder X usually maximizes it for you. It will not do so if that causes the dialog to extend past the sides or bottom of the screen.
- The Finder toolbar menu no longer includes "About Default Folder X", Settings and other application-level items.
- Changes to the system Light / Dark Mode are immediately applied when there's a file dialog open.
- Revealing an alias in the Finder will correctly reveal the alias file rather than the target of the alias.
- Editing dates in the Info pane below Open dialogs works more smoothly.
- When selecting a destination for the Copy, Move, and Create Alias commands, choosing a folder from the Recent Folders menu now correctly switches to that folder.
- Resolved an issue with Default Folder X stalling when Safari sleeps or hangs while loading a web page.
- Creating a new, empty folder set and then immediately creating a duplicate works correctly.
- Fixed a bug in which hierarchical menus could show iCloud Drive nested within itself.
- Disk space is no longer shown in menus in the Computer submenu because disk space no longer has meaning under APFS.
- Fixed the "Mirror recent and favorite items in ~/Library" feature so it works correctly for filenames that have a '/' character in them.
- Worked around a bug in the Bay ROES app that prevented it from launching when Default Folder X was running.