I find there is a singular problem in controlling where the open/save folder is, particularly the save folder because opening is usually invoked from a file list.
* The existing option "For Save as, use original pathname" is too fixed in nature to address the ever-changing nature of the challenge: often you want to save an image to its current folder, at other moments to some other regular folder; often you have to jump around between two or three folders for the project at hand.
* The droplist of 'recent folders' at the top of the dialog (Win10) is hopeless, as it's filled with folders used by other programs unrelated to images, and doesn't recall the last folder you saved at.
I would suggest the following placed in the Save dialog would solve the matter -
* IMAGE FOLDER : A button that changes the folder to the image's folder; so you just click it whenever you want to save the image to its own folder rather than the last-saved folder.
* PRESET FOLDER : A button that changes the folder to a preset folder; shift clicking it sets that preset folder (to the one selected in the dialog). The utility of this is that not only can you set it to a favourite folder you directly want to save to, you can set it to a folder of shortcuts, and so have your own custom list.
* RECENT FOLDERS : A button that pops up a list of the last few saved folders in xnview, so you choose one to change the dialog folder. The existing droplist of recent folders at the top of the dialog bears little resemblance to what I am doing, whereas this would actually work. However if the existing droplist were changed to be such that would also cover it.
These could be presented unobtrusively as small symbols and I think if shortcuts could invoke them that would be great. You could even have them just invoked by shortcuts without the visual buttons, though then you'd want some way to let people know about the shortcuts.
David
Choosing the Save folder...
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