Where can I set the default view for the "Open File" dialog window?

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Where can I set the default view for the "Open File" dialog window?

On my M1 Macbook Pro whenever I want to open a file from Safari, the dialog box comes up in Icon view, which is a pain in the *ss to work with. Yes, I can change this to list view (which would be my preferred default view), but this change lasts only for that occasion. Once I opened the file I wanted, got back to browsing it resets to icon view, so when I need to open another file, the whole process starts again, I have to switch from Icon to List view, before I can open the file. Having hundreds of images in a folder makes it very hard to find the correct one in icon view...

Strange thing is, that I downloaded the Safari Technology Preview app too, and there, the "open file" dialog works as it should. It opens always in list view mode.

So, I assume there must be a setting somewhere in Library for this behaviour, but I could not find it yet...

Any idea where this setting can be found?

Posted on Feb 16, 2023 2:00 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 16, 2023 9:47 AM in response to iKapsel

Use cmd+2 to switch from Icon view to List view in the Open panel. When you exit that panel, the controlling application remembers the last view setting. Tested this in Safari 16.3 and TextEdit on macOS Ventura 13.2.1.

There is no other application setting for this.

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iKapsel Author

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Feb 16, 2023 11:02 AM in response to iKapsel

Well, I found a solution.

I went to Applications/Safari, then "show package contents" and tried to delete everything there.

I was not allowed to delete all files, so I skipped those, but it seems something that was causing this issue was deleted, because now it works as it should.

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Answer 3

iKapsel Author

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Feb 16, 2023 11:19 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Yes I know that, but this icon view open dialog issue made my work so slow, that I barely used Safari anymore, and therefore I had almost nothing to loose here. It is really strange, that I saw other people having the very same error, but nobody had it solved, and there was not any solution proposal from Apple either.

But now I can finally go back to Safari and get rid of Chrome.

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