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jnzbunting

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 18, 2022
2
0
Melbourne, Victoria
Hi all,

Currently battling with searching in the system default 'open document' window that pops up in applications when you click file>open.

Once in that window, the default searching behaviour is to search entire mac, not the current folder.

In finder settings I have told Spotlight to search current folder only, which works as expected in a finder window, but this setting does not seem to flow down to other applications.

My questions are: Is this something that can be set at the macOS level, or is this specific to each applications implementation of the open document window? and Is there a potential workaround?

Currently using Adobe illustrator, but this behaviour seems systemwide regardless of app used. Running MacOS Sanoma 14.0

Thanks and I hope i've explained it clearly.
 

chabig

macrumors G4
Sep 6, 2002
11,460
9,326
Once in that window, the default searching behaviour is to search entire mac, not the current folder.
I think the default is "This Mac" but you can always change it manually to the folder that's presently open. I don't think you can make that choice default.
 

zevrix

macrumors 6502
Oct 10, 2012
411
234
There's no way to change it in the Open/Save dialog, as far as I know.
 
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