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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
