Showing full file path in Save As dialog box

I am a fairly new to MAC OS and I've got used to the intelligent services on Microsoft file handling, particularly at the Save As dialog box. That has a few smart 'arrows' and 'buttons' there that let you wonder around in the file system easily, but I faced with something else in the MAC OS.


I could finally manage to switch on the file path bar in the Finder (at the bottom, that nice, little bar with the name of folders/sub-folders that you can step back and forth at and it shows 'where you are at at the time in the file system'), however I do miss it from the Save As dialog box. I tried to find it at the settings to switch it on, browsed the internet, talked with experts at Apple, also phoning the central phone number, but I could not learn any solutions for getting the file path bar switched on at the Save As dialog box.


And believe me, it is very annoying, when you create a file structure where you save under 'Documents/Work/Approvals/Diary/2016/August/2nd week/Tuesday/XY Customer/' a file and for saving the modified version of the very same file under the same path, but stepping back only one to a sub-folder creating there AB Customer's folder, I have to click through the whole lot again.


The 'history arrows' do not help because when I click on the Save As it puts me straight to the folder where I last saved the previous file, neither would help to click on the drop-down menu above where folders are listed because I could never find there the sub folder where I want to step back to.


Is there any solutions for getting the file path switched on at the Save As dialog box??

Or is there any plan to get it in the new release the operating system??

Same applies on the Open File dialog box...


..., and I do not want to keep a Finder opened just for to copy over the folder's path,..., that was the same effort and was even more unprofessional!


I just would like to switch that simple file path bar on,..., the very same one that is available in the Finder!


Any ideas would be appreciated, thank you for sharing your thoughts in advance, Ian

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Aug 27, 2016 12:32 AM

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Posted on Aug 27, 2016 8:09 PM

The things that I want to achieve are:

- get the File Path Bar at the bottom or the Save As DB;

Can't be done. Send Feedback to Apple.

- or if this option was accidentally left out at the last coding from the codes of the operating system then get put it into it at the new, coming version.

It wasn't left out accidentally. It has never existed. The location popup menu has always contained the full path. I doubt it will change. Send Feedback to Apple if you want it to be different.

I do not think that it would be such a big deal

Then write the code yourself.


Are you using the mini dialog, or the full one? The little upside-down ^ button will toggle between the mini dialog and the full dialog. The mini dialog only shows recent folders.

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