Thanks, that could explain it. I use the popup menu when I can, but I often need to drill down further into a selected location's subfolders, or the folder I want isn't there at all. I wonder if one can customize that? Anyway, that's a different email thread. :) > On May 18, 2015, at 8:01 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > I use List view as well. As far as I can tell, here’s the way it goes: > > • The file is first directed to the location displayed in the “Where” pop-up > in the main Save dialog. > • If you interact with the List view table, then various things could occur. > • Once you start navigating in the folder, and just decide to stop > interacting when you’ve brought VO focus to a file within that folder, then > you’ll still end up saving within that parent folder. > • if VO is focused on a folder expanded or not, it will end up in that > focused folder. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On May 18, 2015, at 17:13, 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.
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