Drill Down Quickly to Deeply Nested Folders
It doesn’t matter what application you’re in; sooner or later, you’ll run into a Save As situation where your file needs to be put into a deeply nested folder. This may be different for Mac compadres, but in Windows, it usually starts like this: click My Documents, click Multimedia, click Clients, click ABC Company, click 2006, click … you get the idea — until you find the folder you’re after. Then it’s off to the next file. Select Save As, and whoa! “Didn’t I just … why doesn’t this remember where I saved my last file?” So you start the drill down again. It’s pretty tedious.
The best part is, as I write this blog entry, I can’t seem to reproduce the issue. It’s like visiting the doctor to make your cold go away — but I know this has happened to me hundreds of times. Here’s a quick workaround.
Perform the drill down once. Go ahead and save your file. Then click the Up One Level button once (see figure) so you’re looking at the folder you were just in. Right click on your folder and choose Explore from the context menu. Doing so will open a new window whose Address bar contains the file path you want. Copy the folder’s path to the clipboard. Next time you Save As, paste the folder’s path in front of the file’s name in the File name field.
Figure Save As dialog, Up One Level button
June 3rd, 2006 at 3:58 pm
I usually make a shortcut on my desktop to the folder that I’m working with if it gets repetative. (I usually do this by dragging the cute folder icon off of an explorer window to the desktop)
Then you just click dekstop, and your shortcut, and you are there.
ie: E:\WorkMobile\snap\preLaunch\interface\flashExportTest is the folder i’m working with as i wait for my coffee… Reduces 5 double clicks to 1, and also gives you a place to get back to your work folder if you inadvertantly close it like I do all the time.
June 4th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Yeah, that’s a good one.