Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem: LibreOffice remembers the last folder I was in (open/save dialog)

Hi :)
I couldn't find a setting in 
Tools - Options - Load/Save
and i hunted around in the other pages in there too.  It might be worth posting a bug-report and 
put "wishlist" in the subject-line along with a couple of words to describe it.  

I really like the default but it might be nice to have a choice of being able to change that.  
Perhaps googling it might give a good link?  There might be a blog or guide or something written 
for OpenOffice and that would probably work in LibreOffice too.  

Sorry i haven't been particularly helpful!  I guess try posting a bug-report as a wishlist item and 
then if you find a better answer you could always give the link and close the report.  
Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Wed, 9/11/11, David S. Crampton <david_crampton@ie2b.com> wrote:

From: David S. Crampton <david_crampton@ie2b.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem:  LibreOffice remembers the last folder I was in 
(open/save dialog)
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 9 November, 2011, 15:57

I wish to comment on this issue. It' more in the nature of how to design the UI rather than a 
defect in the Suite. I used MSO both in corporate environments and personally for many years. 
Rarely did I use M$'s "My Documents" as the storage location for any document. In MSO, it is "My 
Documents" that is the default location for any "File Open" or "File Save" operation. MSO 
insistence on having "My Documents" be the default location was a universal hindrance. We in IT 
constantly struggled to thwart it. The most we could do was redirect it to a networked share.

It is not clear in Mike's posting what exactly he would like the behavior to be. I would hope Mike 
is not requesting the M$ paradigm.  I prefer the existing behavior in LO.

Mike's suggestion about "an option somewhere to control this behaviour?" is very worthy. Some will 
like the "My Documents" paradigm; me, not so much.

I most frequently use the "Recent Documents" list within LO.  The 10 listed items there are just 
right historical coverage.

Respectfully blustering,
--David S. Crampton

On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:13:41 -0800, Mike Moratz-Coppins <mc_legolas@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Platform:  Win7 SP1 64-bit
> LibreOffice 3.4.3 release (though I have had this problem with OpenOffice and LibreOffice since I 
> started using Win7)
>
> If I do File > Open and open a document from there (which isn't in the default documents folder), 
> then close LibreOffice, re-start it and do File > Open again, it opens the location that I went 
> to for the previous document. The same applies for the save dialog. My workaround at present is 
> to enable 'use libreoffice dialogs' in Tools > Options, but that is quite a feature-light UI in 
> comparison.
>
> It doesn't matter whether I use Writer, Calc or Impress.  Also, if I start by using Writer but 
> close LO and move on to say Impress, then Impress remembers the path I last loaded/saved in with 
> Writer.
>
> I've also seen this behaviour on more than one fresh install Win7 64-bit / OpenOffice / 
> LibreOffice, and while I haven't tested it for this behaviour on every OS install I've done that 
> includes Open/LibreOffice, on every one I've tested it, it had the problem.
>
> Is there an option somewhere to control this behaviour?

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