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Small "Save" Dialog

For OSX newcomers, you should be aware of OSX's tendency to initially give you an abbreviated Save dialog when you first run a program.

If you see a Save dialog that looks like the attached picture above, just click on the blue triangle to the right of the top field (where the arrow is), and it will expand to look like a normal Finder window, with a sidebar at the left.

With the larger dialog, you can navigate around and things make sense.

Why they ever made this abbreviated version is beyond me. Nobody ever uses the small one!