Big Sur - New/Open/Save dialog box -size won't save

I understand that save as is necessary. I am saying the save as as a small window versus just opening up finder and choosing the folder where you save as to. Just use finder and a Save As function for finder. Doing away with an independent small window. 99% of folks are not technical power programmers.

To Clarify. I have a word doc, I have saved in the Folder Podcast. Yes, I can click the Folder Pulldown, without the Control pressed, and it expands to click, but the back arrow or left < > dead ends to the folder the file was in. So the ONLY way, as I see it and use it, is to click the Dropbox, then drill back down to the right folder. Does that make sense? The save as should not have so many clicks regardless, like mitchmac4 said, it is a nightmare and a big WHOOPS on apple. Anyhow, thanks for the chat. I appreciate you guys.

Thank you for the suggestion; however, that didn’t do anything. The sidebar still shrinks back to its minimum width after bringing up the Open/Save dialog a few times, and the position of the window also resets every time.

Adding my voice to this frustrating feature.

My rant: For those of us that have used MACs for actual WORK for the past 25 years, why have the dialogue boxes (save, open, export, etc) been reduced so drastically -- without applications remembering how we resize them after the first use? Those of us who use them for production have to give long canonical names to folders and files ... but with all the new "margins and early 1990s rounding", they are useless. Every time i save or export, i lose time by having to stretch the dialogue box in all directions, and then the sub finder columns just to read things ... and then the file name box itself cannot be resized so you can't even read your file names. to the casual user, not a big deal. but for those who use them for work (and are constantly using dialogue boxes) -- well, it's frustratingly useless.

Hear. Hear. Well said. Thank you.

Again, to me, since Finder gives us a way TO SEE THE FOREST through the trees, then move from these limitations. To have the current option open to a nearly full screen option as a default, is a good start in the right direction.

The other thing that drives me crazy is, updates change user settings. I'd love to see the MAC team respect my time, and give me a tool, that can adjust user settings and set preferences, but then can zap and SET all my preferred settings with a one click of one button. Thanks for listening... Peace ...

Having the same problem here.

I want to add that the textbox to enter filenames is fixed and like that way too small as well for decades now.

The size should be auto adjusted according to the chosen width of the dialog box as well. On a 32" 4k screen it is like spying through a keyhole to enter a filename...

Hi, Luis131.

Good idea, and it does seem to fix sizing in the Finder (at least so far today), but it has not fixed the issue we face with a Save As dialog box. Like a lot of people in this forum who work in graphics and save multiple versions of files, this gets quite tedious when you have to resize dozens of dialog boxes a day.

Here's hoping it gets fixed soon.

luiz131- this fixes the Finder only. The rest of the system is still completely pooched and Apple does not care.

The future OSs will be driven towards mobile devices so all of our computers will act like phones - useless in the real world. Trillions of emojis - because that's what the kids want - with none of the professionalism that we want.

Apple turning its back on the loyal computer users who paid their way to their success and now leave us in the dirt with absolutely lousy implementation.

How do I log a complaint about this very issue. This is HELLA annoying if you're opening / closing 100s of files daily.

APPLE - PLEASE HELP!!!

Apple isn't here, which has been posted on this very thread, before, along with instructions on how to "log a complaint." The instructions are actually the "Solved" post, nestled right there at the very top of the thread.

Does anyone run the new release candidate of Big Sur 11.2? There was hope in the community that there was a fix coming for this in the 11.2 update. Is it true? Anyone? Anyone?

Anyone that is running it has agreed not to discuss it anywhere, and any discussion of it here would also be deleted due to the terms of use. I'm sure you could find the information if you searched all of the rumor mills.

Anyone that is running it has agreed not to discuss it anywhere, and any discussion of it here would also be deleted due to the terms of use. I'm sure you could find the information if you searched all of the rumor mills.

Good point. I read on one of the rumor mills that this issue would be solved with 11.2. I guess we'll see for ourselves pretty soon.

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Again, why is this marked as solved? A) even if it is in beta, that doesn't make it solved. B) There's no verification that it's even addressed in beta.

Please un-mark this as solved. Clearly it is a real and persistent problem that is far from solved.

I have the same question. If it’s in fact “solved”, then why doesn’t Apple point us in that direction with some level of clarity? It isn’t solved until we can actually RUN the update. And we can’t. Please advise.

Scratch my earlier comment, I was in error. I'm really sorry about posting that. The sidebar doesn't retain size after restarting the program with 11.2. I'll need to test this more fully later today. Ugh.

I believe the amazingly slow roll-out of this is due to a number of issues, not just the window sizing. Big Sur is wrought with issues...

• window sizing - as we have discussed
• Finder "forgets" Drop Box submenu... so - they moved it to a lower position, but now after a few hours of use, the Finder completely drops this menu altogether, so if I want to share a portfolio link - GONE. Thanks, really helps my daily flow.
• Mail is just an absolute kludge now. A draft message activates the inbox counter. I could go on about how awful Mail is - the non-scaleable Prefs window is just absolutely horrible... the mail inbox counter hasn't worked properly since Catalina, the notification doesn't allow you to click-through to THAT message - click the notification and Mail comes to front, but the message may still be buried in whatever inbox it went to, or Folder On My Mac which is where I sort my incoming mail - so the notification is a kludge
• sounds goes wonky after a few hours... I was on a Zoom call Monday and client sounded like they were talking through crumpled paper... as the day progressed off the call I noticed the Mac's own noises were garbled
• TextEdit - oh god don't get me started - OK, I'm already started.... it just quits when cutting a line of text - and these are Apple's OWN INSTALLED MYRIAD OF CRAPTASTIC FONTS, nothing new here
• Fonts - you already got me started - :-) - I need to manage my fonts for projects - I simply cannot have a bajillion versions of some ridiculously-unusable font in my application menus - even the Apple support person I chatted with did not know enough - thinking FontBook is used to disable fonts - it NO LONGER DISABLES ANY APPLE FONTS

So, brace yourselves, its only going to get worse as the M1 chip brings us closer to our phone in terms of functionality and management - non-existent. Heap on as many emojis as possible to keep the kids happy and the real users be ******.

I lose at least 1-2 hours a day dealing with the Mac OS at this point and I'm tired of it.

However, my developer just bought a new Dell with Windoze and installed Linux for his development work - I ain't going there any time soon! But I may take my 2019 MacBookPro into Apple store and revert to pre-Catalina and NOT buy a new M1 MacBookPro as had planned. I just cannot afford to continue having my tools cost me time and money to use.

Stay safe everyone.