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.