Hi Ioana, There are Finder shortcuts that you can use to go to specific folders, and these work in the dialog windows as well. One useful shortcut that I posted about yesterday is Command-Shift-G, which stands for "Go to Folder". This can be used to specify a path to a folder on any mounted device, with any number of subfolders in the path. It can be a folder under the main System directory, a subfolder on an external disk drive or one on an attached USB memory stick. For the case you outline of saving to a subfolder of Documents I would first press Command-S to save, and then in the dialog window I would press Command-Shift-G. In the text box I would type: ~/Documents/Papers That's an initial tilde symbol (by pressing the Shift key in combination with the accent key at the far left of the row of number keys on an English language input keyboard), to indicate the present user's home directory, followed by a slash, followed by the word "Documents", followed by another slash, followed by the name of the subfolder, which is "Papers" in the current example.
The other way you could navigate to the folder if, for example, you didn't remember its name, or if you wanted to check the file names in the subfolder to use consistent naming syntax, is to navigate past the text field for the file name in the "Save as" dialog to the check box for "Disclosure" and activate this (with VO-Space, or by pressing the Up and Down arrow keys simultaneously if you are in QuickNav mode, or by double tapping on the TrackPad in you are navigating with TrackPad Commander). This will expand to show you a window like the regular full, Finder windows where you can navigate through the contents of the selected folder. So, if you are in the Documents folder (as noted by the pop up menu button selection), you can navigate (VO-Right arrow, using the arrow keys of QuickNav, or with right flicks on the TrackPad with TrackPad Commander) to the file browser and interact. The view of Finder that you see here can be selected with Command-1 (icon view), Command-2 (list view), or Command-3 (column view) just as it can with Finder. I use list view if I want information on the modification date, because I can easily navigate to that column and sort (with VO-Shift-Backslash on an English input keyboard -- for other languages you can use VO-H-H to bring up the Commands Window, navigate to "Tables" and select the entry for "Sort column"). This lists the files in modification date order instead of alphabetically by name, and is a quick way to find the most recently modified files. Actually, you can sort on any column of information that is displayed in list view mode. (Sorting is a toggle action, and when applied a second time will reverse the order of the sort.) You can use column view mode display if you want to easily view and navigate to subfolders. In all of these modes, you can navigate down folders. Then, when you save the file with specified name, it will be stored in your selected folder. Incidentally, in the first example, after using Command-Shift-G, typing in the folder path, and with the name of the file correctly filled in, I just press the Return key to commit the selections in the save action instead of navigating to "Save" buttons in the menu. Similarly, if I want to cancel an action, I press the Escape key instead of navigating to a "Cancel" button. This works more efficiently in many dialog windows, provided you are familiar with the menu contents. In general, if you want to read up on Finder menu shortcuts, and many VoiceOver tips and tricks, a good place to check is Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver pages: http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/ This is a great source of information about the general layout of apps. Look at his keyboard shortcuts link for the information I gave above. The pages are written for Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger. I'm not sure whether everything is up to date, because Tim was away from the list for quite a while between Leopard and the release of Snow Leopard, and started updating for Snow Leopard when he came back some months ago. I haven't seen many posts from him recently, but his information is excellent when he has a chance to post. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 5, 2011, at 08:37, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: > Hi all, > > I cannot for the world figure out how to save a document in a subfolder of > documents. I see the save where menu and press it and find options like idisk > or pictures or etc but don't know how to go in subfolders. > > Thanks for our clarifications. > > Ioana > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
