Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 54536
File dialog does not remember last saved location
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:42:54 UTC
File dialog does not remember last opened/saved location Summary: After opening or saving a file, subsequent file open or save operations should reopen the last location by default. It opens the Home directory every time, instead. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1 - Open OOo, write some lines and choose "Save as". Choose a location different from the default (e.g. /tmp) 2 - Choose New, write some lines and choose "Save as". 3 - The file chooser proposes you to save in $HOME instead of /tmp Other info: Tested in Fedora Core 4
Hi renatoram, thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org... I was able to reproduce your problem here on Ubuntu-Linux using m128 (from ftp.linux.cz)... OOo chooses to save in $HOME as default directory and not in /tmp... This happens only if you change the opened file...
Hi renatoram, thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org... I was able to reproduce your problem here on Ubuntu-Linux using m128 (from ftp.linux.cz)... OOo chooses to save in $HOME as default directory and not in /tmp... This happens only if you change the opened file... MCI -> TM: Hi TM, Who's the "winner"??
To me it looks that mci is confirming my bugreport: OOo should always remember the last opened/saved location (maybe better if separately for the two operations). If I save a file in /tmp it's very probable and a sensible choice to suppose that the next file I'll save will be in /tmp also. If it's not so then well, I'll just navigate to the right place. If it is, I saved a lot of clicks to get to my intended save location. Defaulting to $HOME, however, has the least probability to get it right: how many times do you save directly in $HOME? If I'm working on some project I'll probably open and save several files from the same (nested) folder. Thanks for your time, Renato
TM->HRO: Please have a look.
OOo remembers the last location for "File Open", but not for "Save as".
I think that's something for our UI gang.
This issue is already on this list for more than a year. I feel it is a very important one, one an openoffice user can experience hundreds of times everyday, one, if not resolved, could put you off openoffice. I have no clue how difficult this might be, not knowing anything about programming, but I would be ever so grateful if it is done...soon. I'd like to love openoffice.
At the moment, this is the only issue keeping me from installing OOo on my Daughter's laptop. It's also making me go back to using Word/wordpad for the work I'm doing now (lots of small files saved to the same place, major pain to have to seek out the save location for every save).