1. The loss of stickiness in Saving a file. Up until I loaded Mountain Lion the OS would remember the last folder/location where I saved a file and would present that as the assumed default. No more! Mountain Lion always wants to save to the Document folder. I never save there — too cluttered with files various apps have auto saved their crud. Mountain Lion requires several clicks to get to where I want to save. Almost always it's to the same location I last saved something to.
2. Mail defaults all new eMail documents to my iCloud address. I have several addresses loaded into Mail, and the iCloud one is definitely not my default. I have these various addresses for a reason. Up until Lion Mail remembered my most frequently used for addressing new mail. Now every time I send Mail I have to remember to change the address. Confuses my correspondents and frustrates me.
These may seem trivial. But they're not.
If anyone knows how to override these unwanted defaults, I'm all ears.
I'm surprised. But maybe you've only just started using ML and haven't discovered some of the others?
I lost count and just ended going back to SL where at least most things I need and expect to work they way I expect any OS X to work. Lion and Mountain Lion failed on many counts, at least for my use.
I don't have either of those problems. In MS Office, I set the default file saving location to my Dropbox account. Preview and most other apps that I can think of save to the last known location. Pages and Keynote have been directing me to iCloud, but I don't really use those enough to care. Browsers still save to the Downloads folder. Is this happening for all of your apps?
As for Mail, I find that it still defaults to the last address used, unless I'm replying to a message from a different account, in which case it uses that one. I have 4 accounts set up in main, including iCloud.
I solved that issue by turning off the cloud in every case for my files. I want nothing in the cloud other than my contacts, the only thing I allow it to grab, and then only sync my MBP and my iPhone/iPad.
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I don't have either of those problems. In MS Office, I set the default file saving location to my Dropbox account. Preview and most other apps that I can think of save to the last known location. Pages and Keynote have been directing me to iCloud, but I don't really use those enough to care. Browsers still save to the Downloads folder. Is this happening for all of your apps?
As for Mail, I find that it still defaults to the last address used, unless I'm replying to a message from a different account, in which case it uses that one. I have 4 accounts set up in main, including iCloud.
For the Mail problem I've been advised to go to the In box, then drag my preferred account to the top. Once I do that (pushing the iCloud account further down) any new mail documents are addressed as being from my preferred account. It works. Until now I didn't realize there is a significance of the ordering of accounts in the In box.
As for the default folder problem, I understand the excellent Default Folder app (which I've used for years) has an upgrade in the works which should solve this problem as well.
For the Mail problem I've been advised to go to the In box, then drag my preferred account to the top. Once I do that (pushing the iCloud account further down) any new mail documents are addressed as being from my preferred account. It works. Until now I didn't realize there is a significance of the ordering of accounts in the In box.
Thanks for that tip. Everything new I created wanted to go from my work exchange account, and that has been bugging me. I tried dragging the order of the accounts in the preferences, which didn't work; it didn't occur to me to try dragging the order of the mailboxes.
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