I also experience this hit ands miss behavior from time to time. I find that when I stay in list view and open folders with command-down arrow, I am able to pretty much always predict where files will go. Column view has never been a sure fire approach here.
Take care and have a great day. Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com > On May 18, 2015, at 6:13 PM, Lisette Wesseling <lisettewessel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I get this behaviour too, even in column view sometimes. The Mac save dialogs > confuse me quite a bit. It always feels a bit hit and miss. There's the pop > up button and the side bar, and I never know for sure where things are being > saved to. So you're not alone Alex. Sorry I can't help. > > Lisette > >> On 19/05/2015, at 5:09 am, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I've been using a Mac for some years now, and I consider myself to be quite >> knowledgeable about OS X and VoiceOver. One thing I've never been able to >> nail down, though, is this: why do files sometimes go where I tell them to >> in OS X save dialogs, and sometimes end up in a subfolder inside the folder >> I decide on? I always use List View, and normally, that works in the most >> logical way: if you open a folder, things go in it. If you don't open it, >> even if you're pointing to it, nothing goes in there. Sometimes, though, >> List View will behave more like Column View, where pointing to a folder is >> enough to make things go into that folder. If it were always one or the >> other I'd be okay, but I can never know for sure if a file will go where I >> tell it or if I'll need to start hunting through all the subfolders of that >> folder to find where it went. Has anyone identified the reason this happens, >> and how to always be sure files go where I want them? Again, this is in any >> OS X dialog where you select a folder--save, export, save attachments, >> whatever it is. Thanks. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
