Turn on the Extended Save Panel on Your Mac Instead of the Nasty Drop-Down Menu
When you are about to save a file to your Mac, you almost always need to click the dropdown arrow if you plan on saving that file somewhere other than where Apple wants you to. It’s annoying, but Defaults-Write points to a terminal command that changes this behavior.
As far as I can tell, the default behavior when doing this is to open whatever save panel you used the last time you saved, but in my experience this is not particularly consistent. If you just want to make sure you always get the extended save panel, enter these two commands in Terminal:
by default write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool truedefaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode2 -bool true
This should set the extended save pane to be the default, although some third party apps don’t seem to honor this preference and just use what was in the last used view. However, this should fix the problem with most applications.
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