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[spim]

thanks for the tip
this will be useful, as I generally use LOTS of different apps during my day
and this looks like an easy change
but ... sigh
It just seems like this (and a lot of others) ought to be available in System Preferences
having to go to Terminal for these things reminds me too much of DOS
what can I say - I'm a WYSIWYG kind of guy

[DougAdams]

As an aside, the app Default Folder X provides this feature and many handy others.

[schalliol]

I love tips like this! These are fantastic time savers!

[adobephile]

As DougAdams said, St. Clair Software's Default Folder not only remembers as many recent folders as you want, but it has a ton of other very useful features. It adds its menus to most save as and open dialogs, and it has numerous keyboard shortcuts as well.
I've used this utility for many years and can't imagine being without it.
http://stclairsoft.c...X/features.html

[LouKash]

Rob, thanks for posting my hint from macosxhints.com ( http://www.macosxhin...090106183327762 ) here on Macworld. Did I miss any "fine print" that you don't give any credit to the originator when posting a hint here...? ;)

[6555]

Great tip, but I agree. Default Folder X is a better way to go.

[jpmm]

I guess I don't understand Recent Places. It reminds me of Windows Recent -- which drove me nuts. If I had a folder open in the Finder and it was a "recent" folder, why does it not show in Recent Places? Is Recent Places only those folders that were recent to the app? I guess I'm missing something. (I am glad it has a limit, Windows would take FOREVER when it tried to load all the Recent Places items - so I disabled it).

[LouKash]

@jpmm:
Recent Places refers to the places you have visited by using an application's Open or Save (as?) dialog window. In the popup menu of these windows you will see the list.
This is not the same list as in Finder's Go menu.

In Tiger and earlier some applications maintained their own lists of recent places which was actually quite useful most of the times. That has changed in Leopard where the list is global. That's pretty useful as well, sometimes. But the list is too short by default...

[schalliol]

It seems you cite Rob for helping you find the hint on Mac OS X Hints, yet you seem to take complete credit for the hint as you post here. Certainly if he didn't independently find it through his methods, some credit is in order, but calling it solely your hint here seems a bit misleading.

[jpmm]

LouKash said:

@jpmm:
Recent Places refers to the places you have visited by using an application's Open or Save (as…) dialog window. In the popup menu of these windows you will see the list.
This is not the same list as in Finder's Go menu.

Thanks LouKash. Unfortunately, I rarely use the Open dialog. I am usually editing files that already exist and it's easier for me to open their folder and click them (I am a Web developer, so I am usually opening multiple files from differen sub folders of a site so Open doesn't make sense for me).

Regarding the Go menu. I don't like that if I click GO > Folder or Home, it always takes over the window I already have open, so I actually avoid using Go for that reason. I want it to open a new window. I know I can set Finder the always open new windows in the Preferences, but I don't like that. What I wish is that I could maybe press OPTION while clicking GO > Folder and it opened in a new window. Oh well.

[LouKash]

schalliol, it was me who submitted the hint to macosxhints.com on Tuesday.
Rob is the one who then publishes the submission there.
Still, Rob definitely deserves some credit for cleaning up my English (which is not my native language) in my original submission... ;)
On the other hand, in my hint I was giving him credit for publishing a tutorial last year on how to proceed if you want to find hidden preferences which you don't even know if they exist in the first place. I wasn't obliged to do that, but I thought it's polite, and encouraging for others to search for other hidden prefs on their own.

[LouKash]

jpmm, I agree with you on the Go menu, I find it rather useless most of the times, too. It will only open folders in new windows if you have all current Finder windows with sidebar/toolbar disabled and either in list or icon view.

[LouKash]

Ooops, correction: the FRONT Finder window must have toolbar/sidebar disabled and be in list/icon view in order to have the Go > Folders menu open a new window.