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February 16

High Sierra fix: modify the new, skimpy default save dialogue window width to show more folders

Hi all. I'm running High Sierra. Here's the issue (which wasn't one before I upgraded from El Capitan). I save numerous documents every day, in many different folders. It would save me a fair amount of time and aggravation if the save dialogue window would, by default, be much taller vertically, as it was in prior OS versions. To be clear, this is not an expansion issue—the save dialogue window does open by default for me in the expanded view, i.e., I don't need to click the downward facing arrow to the right of the filename field. Rather, even though the save dialogue opens in the 'expanded view', the space in between is very stingy in High Sierra, necessitating pulling down the edge of the dialogue window to reveal all my sidebar folders in order to comfortably navigate to a save location. I hope the question is clear. Thank you.--185.210.218.102 (talk) 02:36, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

There was a similar, but opposite OSX bug in previous versions. The save dialog was far too large. You make it smaller and it comes right back enlarged again. The solution was to hold the shift key when resizing it. Then, it would remember your preferred size. It is possible (but I doubt likely) that the shift+resize solution will still work for save dialogs that are too small. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 17:52, 16 February 2018 (UTC)