SUMMARY The Open dialog shows this error when the filename is not present in the directory: The file '<file>' could not be found. So far so good. My suggestion is that the error dialog could suggest creating an empty file with that name. I would find it more useful than to have to close that error dialog, close the open dialog, and then tell the app to create a new file, and at some point having to enter the filename when saving for the first name. Of course this probably means that the applications will have to support a new API for creating empty files (whatever that means for them) with the filename returned by the dialog.