Default Folder X No Longer Works! Please fix issue with Accessibility API

[dadagrrr]

Photoshop does not properly support the macOS Accessibility API in 'Export As'. As a result, Default Folder X can't enhance it.

I'd like to see this fixed, consider this a bug report. Thanks.

[TheDigitalDog]

I concur that it doesn't work with Export As but it does with Legacy Save for Web which is kind of odd.

Seems like a bug indeed since the older code supports Default Folder X.

[Conrad C]

Do you mean in the save location dialog box after you click the blue Export As button? Because Default Folder appears there and is working for me.

So I looked in the Default Folder release notes, and for version 5.6 (the current version is 5.6.4), it says:

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Due to a bug in previous versions of Photoshop, its Export As dialog does not work correctly with Default Folder X. Default Folder X now automatically disables itself in this dialog unless you are running Photoshop 22.5.0 or higher.

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The current version of Photoshop is 23.3. Maybe that is why Default Folder is working for me in Export As; I’m running a version of Photoshop higher than the version where Default Folder disables itself.

After a little more digging, it also looks like Adobe did a fix for Default Folder and Accessibility four years ago, in Photoshop 19.1 (2018).

Which version of Photoshop are you running? Or is this a different problem than those?

[TheDigitalDog]

Darn, you're right Conrad, just tried again and after clicking on the blue Export button, this does show up:

Don't know how I missed it before my post but it's there....

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Wouldn't this be a job for St. Clair Software and not Adobe?

[Conrad C]

The two references I found earlier both point to it being an Adobe problem, especially the one where Adobe said they fixed a bug of that type.

I just looked at that link again and now I see that after the Adobe post I linked to, St Clair Software replied “Thank you!”