"Preview" opening dialogue screen ??

[Wilbah]

Hey folks...

Since updating to 10.8 upon opening the Preview application, I now get a opening screen that offers me "icloud" or "on this mac"... and its really annoying!

I use preview alot for screen grabs from Final Cut - I use the "take screen shot from selection" option, and now I have to first click through this dialogue box twice to get it to close! No biggie- but its annoying if I'm doing several.

Also, in all prior OS versions, if I saved a Preview file once in one particular place, (i.e. "save as" to desktop) it would automatically default to that location again for subsequent files, until you quit the app; 10.8 automatically defaults to save the file to "iCloud"- which again forces me to add several steps to get the file to save to the desktop.

In short- a simple screen grab that I want to save as a jpg, now forces me to add like 6 steps to the process and its starting to drive me nuts!

Anyone else notice this? I looked in the "Preferences" in the Preview app, but dont see anything. Most times in other instances with an opening option screen you get a "don't show me this screen again" window to click.... not here.

Help! Its driving me nuts!!

 

[robgendreau]

Geez, you don't appreciate how Mountain Lion made your Mac easier to use ?

You could turn off the "Documents" checkbox in the iCloud pref pane in System Preferences; that might stop it. But make sure you don't have copies up there you'd lose.

Or try a different screen grabber.

 

[sazivad]

OP, do you use iCloud Documents & Data at all? Because if you don't, you can go to > System Preferences… > iCloud and uncheck this checkbox.

 

[Icy1007]

OP, do you use iCloud Documents & Data at all? Because if you don't, you can go to > System Preferences… > iCloud and uncheck this checkbox.

Except that would also disable iCloud for TextEdit, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote if he used them.

 

[matrix07]

Even though I don't find it as annoying as I thought I still think "Open iCloud" and "Save to iCloud" on the file menu would be better than this dialog box.

 

[dadama]

If find this annoying enough that I have switched from Preview to PDF Nomad as the default pdf viewer and to Graphic Converter to view jpg's. I would gladly switch back to preview if the dialogue box stopped opening whenever the program was launched.