Favorites and a question unanswered since Monterrey

Tech Support
1

I’ve sought an answer to this in a number of places for years. It is, so far, unanswerable. It’s also not a big deal, but my curiosity remains.

Open a file in any application that will print. Use File->Print. Choose Save as PDF. If you get the full Finder view for selecting a destination, click the up-caret to get the smaller dialog box.

Note that the Favorites in this view is not the same as the Favorites in the large view. How do I remove items from that Favorites list?

Those favorites are a superset of my Finder favorites. With the down-caret clicked, I see Finder favorites.

Anybody know how to maintain the Favorites as seen in the two different views in the Save As dialog in the print options?

1 Like
2

Are you referring to the menu showing Save to iCloud & Save to Web Receipts, etc.

If so, at one time this menu was just a folder containing links, and I was able to remove Web Receipts and other links that I never used. Later Apple made it read only, and now it is apparently hidden because I cannot find it when I search in Terminal.

Apple appears to be slowly making macOS more like iOS and iPadOS.

1 Like
3

Thanks for your reply.

In that “save to icloud, etc.” menu, click save as pdf.

Click the up-caret beside the “where” field, if it’s not already a down-caret.

Now click the double-ended up/down. There will be a list of favorites.

Very curious how to scrub that list. It’s not a big deal, just strikes me as odd that somehow I set favorites on my old Mac which have followed me to the present day. A few of the favorites are directories that don’t exist any more.

1 Like
4

FWIW, the favorites list is the same for me in Golden Gate whether expanded or not.

Sounds like maybe you have some cruft somewhere that needs updating.

1 Like
5

The list you want to edit is a mirror of the Favorites in your Finder Sidebar

Delete a location from the Sidebar and it removes it from the Save list. I can’t believe I didn’t see that before.:rofl:

I showed Siri AI the menu, and it gave me the solution.

6

If only it were that easy.

In Preview, File->Open has a favorites list that is indeed synced with the Finder favorites. On the bottom edge of File->Print, Save as PDF has two favorites lists.

The “Where” field has a caret. If the caret is pointing down, I get an abbreviated Save dialog. If I click the caret to get it pointing up, the Save dialog is expanded.

With caret pointing up, clicking the Where field produces a list including Favorites. These Favorites are not connected, at last not in bi-directional sync, to the Finder favorites.

With caret pointing down, clicking the Where field produces a list without Favorites. The Favorites are instead listed on the left edge of the Save dialog - and they are synced with Finder favorites.

I also think I know why it bugs me. When documentation fell out of style, many large companies became dependent on tribal knowledge among staff. Staff, of course, are a gateway to corporate profits in the short term. Layoffs make big companies rich (this quarter).

And so, I grumble.

Thank you for your replies.

1 Like
7

I really thought we had this figured out, but regardless of what I select, all I’m seeing is the same list of favorites. Or lists of folders based on the location I have selected.

No problem, always happy ( to try) to help

1 Like