Save As…

[Washishu]

For reasons of my own and which are not really relevant to this matter, I quite often use previously saved documents to create new documents. Briefly, this might be because I wish to edit particular elements or because I know that that document has features/elements/settings I wish to duplicate.

I make my changes. I go to Save As. The default location is ‘Desktop’. The list in Recent Places are, often, from other software and in some cases nowhere that I have ever in my life saved an .afdesign to before. The folder from which I opened the file is not shown.

I like to make some effort to keeping files organised and it’s annoying to have to close the file, drag it from the desktop into the ‘correct’ folder and (perhaps) reopen it.

I’ve looked through Prefs but can find nothing to suggest that there is any way I can change this.

[kaffeeundsalz]

Are you on Mac or on Windows? I don't think this is something that the Affinity applications can control on their side; it seems to be an operating system default. I really can't help with Windows since I don't it, but at least on macOS, you can simply drag frequently used folders to the Finder's sidebar. This way, they can also be very quickly accessed from the Save As dialog.

[Washishu]

Thanks for your suggestion. I'm on Mac too. The work in question is tends to be something that I create/edit perhaps a number of times, but I don't need to do so very often so it's not a folder that I'd need to access frequently.

I considered that it was an OS thing rather than an affD. thing but other software does show, in Recents, the folder that the file was opened from. My very, very limited understanding of such things would suggest that, if it is the OS that controls such things, then there's something about affD. that the OS doesn't recognise and so defaults to…what?…the last used list?

It's irritating at times but not something I'm about to write to my MP about.