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Work · September 9, 2017

Default Folder X

Enhances the Open/Save dialogs in all of your applications

Default Folder X launched on September 9, 2017 with 75 votes, #607 of 3,073 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

Default Folder X lets you... Go faster: Quickly navigate through folders with hierarchical menus that expand as you mouse over them. Do it all: Preview, tag, rename, compress, delete or add comments to files in any Open or Save dialog. Just click: Need to save a file in a folder you have open in the Finder? Just click on the Finder window!

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