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I used the application "HDD Cleaner" to clear up my ~/Library/Cache folder. After this action I see the following dialog, whenever OS X asks for my sudo rights:
It's the only dialog that has this appearance. How can I restore the default dialog? I already switched the languages and region, but without success.
I'm using 10.10.1 on my MacBook Air Early 2014.
Open Activity Monitor, look for the process corresponding to the tab and quit it.
The Open... Dialog defaults to the current folder for MOST applications. You chan change this by changing directory in Terminal (note that in my experience, some applications, especially Java ones do not follow this default behavior and in stead open the same directory every time, I assume this is hard-coded in the application).
Now to the meat of your question: can we change this behavior on a per-application basis, using the tools OS X has pre-installed? My guess is yes!, though I don't have time to do the research right now. What we'd be looking for is:
# wait for application to be switched
# see if we have defined a default directory for that app
# if we have change, if not go to default
# go back to top and wait to app switching
Others should definitely feel free to flesh out my skeleton code, please don't accept this answer until it is complete. I'll look again tonight and see if I can't finish that out. Potentially helpful link
Best Answer
It's possible it could have messed up the Font cache. Restart into Safe mode, (hold down shift after the boot chime) and release Shift when the grey screen and Apple logo appear. When asked to log in, type in your password, then HOLD SHIFT and hit enter. Reboot into OS X as normal and try again.
Hopefully it didn't delete a system font on accident. Next, open Font Book, select all the fonts and choose Validate Fonts from the File menu. Resolve any conflicts that it finds. If you don't have a lot of non-standard fonts installed, you can choose Restore Standard Fonts from the File menu and reboot. Hopefully it's something simple.