XLS Writer's defaults to the MacOS folder inside the .app package on OS X, instead of LOCAL:/.
This means the user has to Inspect Package Contents in order to fish out the file. Probably not the only Node with that issue.
Hi,
I just tried to reproduce the issue. When I create an XLS Writer node and select the Browse button, my users home directory comes up as the default. However when I just type in a file name (without any path) and without clicking on the Browse button the file gets saved to the KNIME .app/Contents/MacOS. I'm guessing that this is what you mean?
I'm going to open a bug about this. We will probably not change the directory to the root folder automatically, but it would make sense to not write anything inside the app folder. So we could issue a warning or require the user to provide an absolute path to the file.
Thank you for reporting this issue!
Christian