One very significant improvement is its “reaction time” to bring up its controls when an Open or Save dialog comes up on the screen. Version 5.5.9 of Default Folder X is available. Posted in Automation, Default Folder X, Path Finder, Tips | No Comments » If currentViewer is '' thenĭo shell script 'defaults write 5 fileViewer 'ĭo shell script 'defaults write 5 fileViewer ' now switch to whichever fileViewer is currently not in use Set currentViewer to do shell script 'defaults read 5 fileViewer' Attaching a script like this to a keyboard shortcut using Peter Lewis’ amazing Keyboard Maestro app makes it super-easy: - set the 'currentViewer' variable to the current fileViewer setting Toggling between Path Finder and Finder on the flyĪnd finally, if you want to get really fancy and sometimes have Default Folder X open folders in the Finder and sometimes in Path Finder, you can set up an AppleScript to toggle back and forth.

To tell Default Folder X to go back to using the Finder instead of Path Finder, just replace ‘’ with ‘’. Note that if you’re using the Setapp version of Path Finder, you should replace ‘’ with ‘-setapp’. If you’d rather make this apply only to Default Folder X, you can set Default Folder X’s “fileViewer” preference in Terminal with this command: defaults write 5 fileViewer Using Path Finder instead of the Finder – but just for Default Folder X

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