Mac News Briefs: Default Folder X ready for Snow Leopard

17.08.2009
Add Default Folder X to the list of apps that offer support for Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 update. St. Clair Software on Monday rolled out Default Folder X 4.3, which adds full support for Snow Leopard to the file dialog enhancement utility.

lets you assign default folders for each application. The utility also makes recently used and favorite files and folders easily accessible, and it lets the Open and Save dialog boxes remember the last folder and file you worked with in each application.

In addition to support for Snow Leopard's 64-bit architecture, Default Folder X 4.3 also fixes a problem that could cause the utility's hierarchical menus to crash under OS X 10.6.

The 4.3 update also works with OS X 10.4 and 10.5. It reduces processor usage when displaying previews and fixes several compatibility problems. Default Folder X 4.3 also provides expert settings to resize all Open and Save dialogs to a user-specified minimum size.

The update is free for users of version 4. Default Folder X costs $35, with updates available for $15 for users who bought the utility before June 1, 2007.--