Comments on: Return the “Don’t Save” Keyboard Shortcut to Command+D in Mac OS X Lion

By: Anuraag

Anuraag — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:43:45 +0000

The command prompt fix listed here doesn’t work, sadly. I miss the old Cmd-D also because it was a single hand operation. What’s worse is that this change appears to be dialog specific – my copy of Office 2011 still uses the old, Cmd-D dialog! I can’t believe that the change isn’t global. Absolutely unbelievable.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:24:37 +0000

Well observed

By: Ouzone

Ouzone — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:49:05 +0000

Command+shift+D switches the working directory to the user’s desktop when saving or opening. Command+shift+ H switches to home Command+shift+O to documents and so on…

Command+S works for Save so Command+D SHOULD logically be Don’t save because of the first letter.

Command+D to switch to desktop does not work consistent with the other “go to foler” -shortcuts. For example Command+H hides the app.

Apple has made some really weird UI decissions lately and they totally messed up this one. Hope this is not going to be too much of a habit for them.

By: cmdD

cmdD — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:09:31 +0000

Never realized that–Thanks!

By: theDaniel

theDaniel — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:53:41 +0000

You people must have a different version of Lion than me, ’cause cmd+D still works as in previous Mac OSes. Only way cmd+D works to give desktop as place is if the “choose a save location” dialog is open in the expanded view.

By: Bragi

Bragi — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:14:07 +0000

The code for changing the shortcut doesn’t work anymore after I have updated with the latest operating system update. Could you provide at new code that works with this lates os 10.7.2 update?

By: Betalogue » Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion): New shortcut for ’Don’t Save’ button in ’Save As’ dialog

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:22:02 +0000

[...] my solution for now. There is a site that mentions a Terminal command to restore the command-D shortcut in Lion, but it doesn’t work [...]

By: Harvey

Harvey — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:55:50 +0000

They also seem to have gotten rid of tab-to-focus in all standard dialogs. Also, where did the secondary choice button highlights go? The secondary choice was always circled in blue. You pressed enter for the default choice and space for the secondary. Once you learned that, it was one of the coolest features of OSX.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:03:24 +0000

Command + D switches the working directory to the user’s desktop when saving or opening.

By: John

John — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:30:09 +0000

Command+D always goes to the Desktop, having it set to Don’t Save makes zero sense anyway

By: James Ludtke

James Ludtke — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:25:49 +0000

To be consistent, Apple should have changed the “Don’t Save” button to a “Delete Changes” button, and the “Save” button to “Save Changes”.

Hey, Apple, what happened to your famous attention to details?

Add this to your rules: “Whenever possible, the name of a button should hint at the keystroke equivalent”.

By: Alberto

Alberto — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:58:03 +0000

They changed Command+D to Command+Delete, just to say that there is some new feature in Lion……