Contextually sticky "Last Open Folder" Behavior In Dialogs

Hi all,

Okay, tiny feature request time: Let’s say I’m in Preferences > Appearance, and have just selected an appropriate texture for my text background, and let’s say I chose it from my Pictures folder. Now, let’s say I next go to File > Open. When I do, the dialog that comes up should not drop me back into the Pictures folder; it should drop me wherever I was when I last used that particular feature. Similarly, if right after opening a Project I go to File > Import > Files…, I should not be dropped into the folder where I just opened the Project from, or wherever else I just was; rather, I should be inside the last folder I accessed with THIS dialog, and so on and so forth, etcetera. To solve the problem of what folder a given “type” of dialog should start out in, I would introduce a Preferences panel entitled “Common File Locations”, enabling the user able to specify (or choose) the folders they typically store their Pictures, Media, PDFs, Projects (etcetera) in, thus eliminating a lot of extra mousing around when hunting for files of various types. This is a tiny thing, really — almost trivial — but I think things like this matter a lot when you need to draw on many different kinds of resources, particularly if you have to do so repeatedly. (P.S. — it would also be neat if the Import menu also featured options for choosing from your iTunes or iPhoto library!)

Just my two cents for today,
—Andy H.

Hi,

This is just how OS X works in general - some apps are far worse, for instance iPhoto insists on dumping you back in the Pictures folder every time you export to no matter whether you exported to a different folder or not only seconds before.

All the best,
Keith

Try Default Folder:

stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/

Cheers, Martin.