File > Open on Mac always just opens my user folder

My projects are in a folder under my user folder, but the way the Mac is and my shortcuts (in Finder), I keep having to click multiple times to get to the projects folder after selecting File > Open instead of PHPStorm just remembering where I was last time I opened a project that way, like most other programs I use (at least in Windows).

Is there some fix for this so PHPStorm remembers the last-selected project folder parent (or the project itself) to just make it easier to open a project without having to close the current one?

I know I can move my projects folder up the list of shortcuts in Finder, but then that makes it inconvenient for selecting other shortcuts in other apps... I don't want to fix one inconvenience to cause multiple others.

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Please check if disabling the native file chooser does the trick for you: Help | Find Action | Registry | ide.mac.file.chooser.native.

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What is that supposed to do? I'd like to know first what it's supposed to do before potentially risking an irreversible problem in the registry...

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It replaces the native macOS file chooser with our own, that has the feature you need and more.

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OK, I tried this; it does remember the last folder but double-click won't open the folder as the project, I have to select the folder then click the open button...

So my request would simply be for the new feature to remember the last successfully-opened project folder... unless there's already a way to make it do that somehow.

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Help | Find Action | Registry | ide.mac.file.chooser.native does not exist anymore.

Really needs to fix it. I'm tired of clicking each time all the path.

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Hi Oleg Zavrazhin,

This thread is quite old. Please check the following one: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/21138492870930-Back-to-Mac-OS-File-Chooser, and try disabling the Use native file chooser dialog on Windows/macOS option in Settings | Advanced Settings.

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