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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Attaching working folder to an application
Message-ID: <1108@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 19:32:01 GMT
References: <686@salgado.stan.UUCP> <6366@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
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In article <6366@bsu-cs.UUCP> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>In article <686@salgado.stan.UUCP>, dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>> When a file open dialog box comes up, it seems to always be set to the
>> last folder I opened a dialog box for, or the directory in which the
>> application executed resides, even if I execute the application by
>> double-clicking on an associated file icon in another directory.  It's
>> really annoying to start an application and have to move up 3 or 4
>> folders and then down 3 or 4 more just to get to the file I'm looking
>> for.
>
>The standard file dialog (and the Mac user interface in general) makes this
>a fairly easy task compared to MS-DOS or Unix, so I don't really mind that
>much.

HFS Navigator, from our friends at THINK, makes this even easier.  It
allows you to go directly to any folder (you can add to/delete from the list
at any time) from any file open/save dialog box.  It's about $30 and
really a must for serious Multifinder use.

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