As we discussed, the file Save As dialog needs to start out in the directory you last saved files in.

Sarah?

sounds like a dup of bug 24625...?

yeah, dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24625 ***

verif.

Reopening as bug 24625, "[RFE]Add MRU list for folders/directories to File Save dialogs", which this report was made a DUP of, has been given a Target Milestone of "Future", but remembering the last directory (only) is 4xp. OTOH, quoting from bug 24625, > ------- Additional Comments From law@netscape.com 2000-03-16 21:14 ------- > ... > I think 32014 is a dup of a bug that's already been fixed. I know I put in > code that passes the directory to nsIFileWidget. There were problems with the > implementations of that interface not working properly on all platforms, but I > thought that was fixed. ... so this may no longer be an issue.

Hmm, it looks like this functionality actually needs to be in (and tested in) the nsIFilePicker version of the save dialogs, so this will be blocked by bug 36789, "File->Save should use nsIFilePicker instead of nsFileSpecWithUI", nsbeta2+. Brian, you've been in there recently for 3025... is there code in nsIFilePicker to stash and recall the last directory saved to?

The code isn't in nsIFilePicker, but nsIFilePicker *does* properly implement the code that controls the initial directory it displays (nsIFileSpecWithUI used nsIFileWidget, whose Linux implementation didn't implement that properly). But, 36789 does block this. I have a fix for 36789.

Fixed with the patch I just attached to 36789.

pavlov, i think that this is yours

Oops... this should have been marked fixed when law checked in his changes.

verified: save as starts in my last saved in directory

This bug is poorly defined: Does (or should) mozilla remember the last download directory across sessions? Since there is no way for the user to set a default download directory (bug 7840 is over THREE YEARS OLD!!!), it would be useful if mozilla would remember the the last dir *across session*. This seems a terrible oversight by persons not familiar with windows. Suggest to reopen this bug to make it remember last downloaded-to directory across sessions.

It should. It broke recently. Should be fixed soon; I've seen the fix in a number of patches to very recent File Handling bugs. Please don't reopen this bug, I think there are more than enough on this topic already.