macOS 11.7. Every time when my connected iPhone enters recovery mode, Finder automatically opens a new window and shows this dialogue. Not sure how possible it is, but I'd like it not to show up automatically, without affecting USB communications with this iPhone.

After upgrading to Catalina from High Sierra. I found that I can no longer use the enter key in place of the mouse to click on dialog box buttons. Keyboard access and navigation is currently enabled in keyboard settings.

How do I make the "MultiSelect" option work in the Application.GetOpenFilename() method? Despite Microsoft's help page, setting this argument to True doesn't allow me to select multiple files in the dialog. Answers like this do not help since FileDialog isn't available on the Mac version of Excel. What I really want is to prompt the user for a folder instead of a file, but I can't find out how. So, I'm using subs like this to have the user pick files but as you can see in my screen recording, MultiSelect doesn't work. I know I can use the file selected to determine the folder Sub getFolder() Dim path As Variant path = Application.GetOpenFilename(FileFilter:="txt", _ MultiSelect:=True) If path = "False" Then End 'user hit Cancel End Sub Ironically, the first time a file is chosen a "Grant Access" dialog appears, which is itself a folder picker -- exactly what I want. And yet I can't figure out how to make a "Grant Access" dialog appear with VBA.

Over the last couple of days, I’ve repeatedly had a dialog box appear for a fraction of a second and then disappear, much too quickly to read the contents. It’s happened maybe 4 or 5 times so far; it comes unexpectedly, not apparently prompted by any action I’ve taken; I’ve been in Safari each time it happened, but on different websites, and it’s seemed more like another application momentarily stealing focus rather something from Safari or an open website (e.g. it appears centered on the whole screen, not on the Safari window); I spend much of my time working in webapps, so being in Safari just by chance each time isn’t unexpected. It’s occurred on two different devices (home laptop and office desktop), running different Mac OS versions (Ventura 13.6.1 and Sonoma 14.1.1), but under the same Apple ID. **How can I even begin to diagnose this?** As I understand from Googling around, such flash-up dialogue boxes can sometimes be caused by malware, but equally by legitimate software (e.g. auto-updaters for installed applications). I’ve done the most basic safeguards against malware (all OS security updates installed; checked that all listed login items + background items appear legitimate), and found no red flags. But I’d really like to know what’s going on! Is there a log file where I can check through recently-appeared windows/dialogs, active apps, etc, or anything like that?

## Permission Dialog Whenever I use the Mailchimp app for macOS, I get a system dialog asking > Mailchimp wants to use your confidential information stored in Safari Forms autofill encryption key in your keychain [![macOS Dialog asking, "Mailchimp wants to use your confidential information stored in Safari Forms autofill encryption key in your keychain. To allow this, enter the "login" keychain password. Password [input field]. Button "Always Allow". Button "Deny". Button "Allow".]] ## What I don't want Mailchimp is the specific example here, but the same goes for most apps. I'd perfectly fine with Mailchimp retrieving *its own password* for mailchimp.com. What I **DO NOT** want is * Mailchimp to have access to any non-Mailchimp login information * Mailchimp to see what other accounts I have (e.g., to sell the information to data brokers) ## Question **What is macOS really asking** for with this dialog? * Permission for Mailchimp.app to access mailchimp.com login info * Permission for Mailchimp.app to access any login info * something else

I have several external drives, which I don't use constantly, and so they spin down, and rest. Unfortunately for me, every time I have the "Open..." or "Save..." dialogs, Mac OS X spins these hard drives back up, even if the currently displayed folder does not belong to those drives, and even though nothing of those drives appears anywhere (no treeview on the side, no folder from those drives in the sidebar). I don't have Spotlight enabled. Obviously a solution would be to disconnect/reconnect those drives, but that is something I would like to avoid. Is there a way to tell Mac OS X not to eagerly/preemptively fire up the drives?

I created an image file by pasting an image into Preview (Command + N). When I want to save it, the Save dialog does not appear. The Preview window looks as follows: The red button in the upper-left corner shows a dark dot - indicating that the file has not been saved. When I click on the red button, normally a Save dialog should appear - but nothing happens. I tried going into the menu bar to click "Save..." - nothing happens. I tried Command + S - nothing happens. Every time I shut down the computer, I need to force quit Preview (otherwise Preview stops the shutdown, since it has a file unsaved). However, every time I turn on the computer again and open Preview, the unsaved file is still there. I am on a 2019 MacBook Pro running macOS Monterey Version 12.0.1. I also have a similar issue with the Save dialog not showing when I want to Save as PDF from the system print dialog. I also see what appears to be the same issue for TextEdit and Microsoft Office in the unsolved question here .

A few releases of macOS (Mac OS X) ago, many native apps (such as Preview, TextEdit, etc) changed their closing dialog options from "Don't Save", "Cancel", and Save"… …to "Revert Changes", "Cancel", and "Save". The former set of options is still available in most third-party apps, as shown in the first screenshot above. "Don't Save" and "Revert Changes" do the same thing, but the former set of options can be activated from the keyboard via commandd, esc, and return, whereas the latter has no shortcut for "Revert Changes" (as far as I can tell). Call me picky, but this renders the native apps nearly worthless. Has anyone yet found a way to activate "Revert Changes" from the keyboard, rather than having to use the trackpad to click the button? I've tried mashing various key-combinations into the keyboard. I've tried tabbing and option-tabbing. I've tried creating a keyboard shortcut for all apps in Syst Prefs. I wonder if there's something to enter into Terminal? And I'm not interested in changing the tab key to focus on all interactive elements. Thank you.

I have been having an issue lately (I have never had this issue before). When an app gives me a dialog box (such as an applescript error, a permission dialog, or an unexpected quit), I will not be able to answer it. I can click the buttons, but nothing happens. The dialog will stay (I just drag it into the corner if it doesn't need any action), and the action the button does will not execute. This becomes a real pain because, many times, there is an app asking for permission, and I have to log out, log in, and then ask for that permission again to get it to click. It will click for a few hours after log out & log in, but then it freezes up again. I am running Monterey 12.4. This only started after I used migration assistant to migrate from an Intel iMac to an M1 pro Macbook. This does NOT occur with dialog boxes created by or within apps, but only dialogs created by MACOS These are the types of dialog boxes I am talking about: However, dialog boxes like this (not draggable, and stuck inside the app's window, not a separate window) never freeze: **Edit:** this is not related to any particular app. My apps all work fine. It is an issue with just the dialogs, and I am picking on UTM because it is easy to make UTM throw dialogs. But, for example, yesterday, I was trying to set up a VPN. To let the app add a VPN config, a macos networking dialog popped up. I had to log out & log in, then re-add the VPN for me to be able to click the dialog.

I'm creating a cool script to bother me by asking to close the app with the name of the variable after the specified minutes. The osascript display dialog is become more complex. Now it's working thanks to the help got here . But I'm not being able to get the variable PROCESS_NAME properly: PROCESS_NAME="Telegram" DIALOG_RESULTS="$(osascript -e 'set {T,B} to {text returned, button returned} of (display dialog "Minutes to remember to close $((PROCESS_NAME))" default answer "1" with icon caution buttons {"Keep Open", "CLOSE APP & take a break"} default button 1)' -e 'return T & "\t" & B')" &&MINUTES_UNTIL_ASK_TO_CLOSE="$(echo "$DIALOG_RESULTS" |cut -f 1)" &&BUTTON_RETURNED="$(echo "$DIALOG_RESULTS" |cut -f 2)" The current (wrong) output is this: > Minutes to remember to close **$((PROCESS_NAME))** The desired (correct) output should be: > Minutes to remember to close **Telegram**

I'm creating a cool script to bother me by asking to close some distracting apps that I open without realising. For that, I do this: MINUTES_UNTIL_ASK_TO_CLOSE=osascript -e 'set T to text returned of (display dialog "Do you really want to use this app?" default answer "1" with icon caution buttons {"Close to better Focus or Relax", "Remember again after minutes..."} default button "Remember again after minutes...")' It gets the text entered in the input (the number of minutes till remember again to close). The problem is that I'm not being able to find how to **get the button that has been pressed**. I found the following beautiful code in another answer in this platform : set theResultReturned to (display dialog "hallo" buttons {"h", "a"} default button "a" default answer "") set theTextReturned to the text returned of theResultReturned set theButtonReturned to the button returned of theResultReturned But I'm failing to get the variable to know which button has been pressed: BUTTON_PRESSED=`osascript -e '... ??

Similar question: [How to get rid of "The disk you inserted was not readable" and auto ignore it? (without installing apps)](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/332860/how-to-get-rid-of-the-disk-you-inserted-was-not-readable-and-auto-ignore-it) . However, in their case they were able to create an additional readable volume to prevent this from showing up. In my case, I cannot create such a volume since my disk is full, and my volumes are not adjustable. Also, I am open to open-source app solutions if they exist. **Note:** Differently from the other questions asking how to fix the drive, my intention is to silence this notification/warning, and **keep my drive as is** (disk is already full and volumes cannot be adjusted). This is for an old macBook Air running macOS 11.7. However, if you have an answer for macOS 13 please post too. I have an external hard drive that contains partitions/volumes that are **intentionally** not readable by macOS directly. I hope that when I plug in this drive to my macBook, macOS shall not pop up the dialogue saying "The disk you attached was not readable by this computer", so I do not have to click to ignore it every time. I expect fixes done on macOS, not on my drive because my drive does not need a fix.

Is there any way to close "**Untitled**" Preview documents without getting the confirmation dialog box (where it asks "Do you want to save the changes made to the document ....?")? I don't want to just quit, or force quit, the Preview program, because I often have some other documents open that I want to combine and/or save with different names LATER. I've tried un-checking the General System Preferences option "Ask to keep changes when closing documents", but that didn't work, even after a reboot. And there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the Preview preferences. I just want to quickly close a bunch of untitled documents so I can free up some memory or reduce clutter, without having to mouse over to each individual dialog box and click "Don't Save". If that isn't possible, here some ideas for other methods that would also be helpful - I just don't know if they're possible either: A. Select a bunch of Untitled documents in a multiple document Preview window and: 1. Close them all at once without saving any of them. (There is a File menu option for "Close Selected Documents", but it opens up a separate confirmation dialog box for each one.) 2. Save or Rename all of them all at once (i.e. Untitled1, Untitled2, etc). Then if I have the General Systems Preference "Ask to keep changes..." unchecked I could close them all at once by closing the multiple document window. 3. Combine them all into one document. (I know you can use Print to convert them into a single new document, but you still have to close the original separate documents). B. Use a keyboard shortcut for the "Don't Save" button, so at least I can get through all of the separate dialog boxes more quickly.

On OSX Lion, iTunes keeps prompting me to enter my username and password to "sign in to enable this computer for automatic downloads." In the past I tried checking the box to remember my password but it kept forgetting, so now I just disabled the "always check for available downloads" option in Prefs -> Store. It still prompts me. It drives me crazy. Is there a way to get it to stop prompting for my password, so it will just behave like a well-behaved offline music library manager, and only ask me for my username and password when I open the iTunes store?

Frequently what I would like to do in a Save As dialog box is to click a single button or type a single command that would select the top window in the Finder (or another active Finder window, but it is almost always the top one) as the folder/directory in which to save the file (often a Mail attachment, but also many other documents in other applications). The best I know how to do is to drag that folder's icon onto the Save As dialog, but I make abundant use of Full Screen mode, so this is quite cumbersome. In sum, my current routine is: 1. type command-S, or ask Mail to save an attachment 2. swipe several times to get to the Desktop 3. click and hold on the icon of the top folder 4. drag that icon back several swipes till I am back at the Save As dialog 5. drop the icon there The desired routine would look like: 1. type command-S, or ask Mail to save an attachment 2. type another command to have the Save As dialog jump straight to the top Finder window. Is there a built-in way to do that? Or a simple way to customize it using Automator or such? I am hoping for a universal solution, not one that works only on Apple Mail. (I am using MacOS 10.15.7, but this has been a long-standing question for me, so I suspect it may still not be obvious in more recent versions.) # Update: question about Ezekiel's answer At my request, @Ezekiel updated his [answer](https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/452977/183017) to this question to skip the copy-paste step and simply output the filepath harvested by the Applescript into the Go To text field. When I tried to implement that, I ran into the problem that if, in Automator (MacOS 10.15.7), I check the box "Output replaces selected text", the Service no longer appears in the Services menu when the Save As dialog is open/active. If I open TextEdit, the script works as expected, outputting the filepath of the (first tab of the) top Finder window into the program. This is what my Automator looks like: Am I doing something wrong?

I've been having this issue for many OS versions now, where every other day, all of the OS level dialog windows (sorry I don't know the technical name for them) will become unresponsive after appearing on the screen, e.g., these two windows at the bottom here (I've also included my MacBook info at the top FYI)... Neither button does anything on these windows and I usually have to reset my computer for them to go away. Sometimes the issue will return immediately, other times it will take a few hours. By the way, the issue doesn't only occur with Fusion360. It happens all the time while using other apps too.

Sometimes at the beginning of 2021, I started to have a problem with the "File upload" dialogs in the web browser. The dialog is unresponsive to the mouse. I can use the keyboard for navigation, but the Tab key only switches between the left panel and the "Search" field and I'm unable to focus the main area with files. Thus I'm unable to select a file, but I can escape that dialog with Esc and, as this regards also "Save as" dialogs, I'm able to select some directory in left panel's "Favorites" and confirm with Enter. As time passes, I realized, that this problem applies to almost all native dialogs. I'm currently unable to open e.g. Pages or TextEdit, as it starts with the "File open" dialog, which I'm unable to handle. And yesterday, I needed to tweak some configuration in "Security & Privacy" in "System Preferences" and I realized it has the same symptoms. I can click on the top navigation panel and return back to the "System Preferences" main screen, but I'm unable to click on anything in the "Security & Privacy" main section. The keyboard navigation works, but, again, the Tab key only switches between the left list and the "Search" field, and I'm unable to click on "Click the lock to make changes" so, it's all helpless. I Googled for similar issues, but so far found nothing heplful. Does anyone have some idea where to look, what to try?

I'm porting some simple X windows/bash scripts to Mac OSX, but I cannot find a build of [Zenity](https://live.gnome.org/Zenity) (a Gnome app for basic GUI dialogs) for OSX. Is there some other command line driven dialog utility I can use? Basic operations: notification dialog - List item - (i.e. basic title, text, icon, OK button) - error notification - yes/no or ok/cancel prompts - select 1 or n items from a list - input text string I don't (yet) know AppleScript (but it seems pretty verbose for the file maintenance tasks I'm interested in).

Every time I want to save or open a file from any program (Chrome, Keynote, Numbers, Safari,...) on my 2021 MBP, when the dialog box opens I can't click on any of the folders or files, nor can I click on the filename for changing it. I can only press Tab, the arrow keys and Enter on my keyboard to move around, although this doesn't work correctly. What kind of bug am I having? Update: After restarting, the problem dissappeared, but after a few days sleeping (and waking) the computer, the problem has returned. I run Chrome, Anaconda Navigator, YouTube (app), YT Music (app), Keynote, Notes and agenda as apps. The problem occurs in Chrome, Keynote when trying to open or save a file. Update 2: I attach a screenshot. I cannot click on any of the (activated) buttons or folders etc. Cmd+1/2/3 still works (as using Tab and Esc).

I‘m using

(run it on [CodePen](https://codepen.io/jmayer/pen/PoJvYLm) to test it). in my web page to allow the user to select an image file. In the first picture you can see the options button is the lower left corner. In the second picture you can see the options available after clicking the options button. The options button for the open file dialog is confirmed visible on mac devices with the following specs

Mac(Big Sur / 11.6.1): Chrome(96.0.4664.93)
Mac(Monterey / 12.0.1): Chrome(97.0.4692.71)

It is confirmed not visible on a mac device with the following spec

Mac(Big Sur / 11.6), Chrome(Version 97.0.4692.71)

Without more specs the absence of an options button has been confirmed on one more mac device, and the presence of the options button has been confirmed on an additional mac device. Any insight into why this options button seems inconsistent across mac devices when using Chrome? We discovered this inconsistency when testing an html form with a file input. Thanks