Re: [Audacity-devel] Default save location

[Ed M. <edg...@wa...>]

As I recall (I recently read something somewhere about this "new feature"),
on Win7 the current save directory is "automagically" remembered by the OS.
If you have never saved a file it seems to default to "current working
directory" which is being hijacked by mod-pipe (it seems-at function open it
is the folder in which the app resides but by function exit it is Modules)
in the SVN HEAD and cwd is Modules. However, once I save a project, close
Audacity and re-launch Audacity and save a new project, the Save As dialog
opens in the folder in which I last saved anything (even if it was a .WAV).
If you re-compile the app it does NOT seems to set "never saved a file" to
TRUE as far as the OS is concerned.

 

It is most likely possible to hard-code this in on an OS specific basis, the
Win7 API had a method of setting the directory after creation and before
Show.

 

--Ed

 

From: Steve the Fiddle [mailto:ste...@gm...] 
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 12:16 PM
To: aud...@li...
Subject: [Audacity-devel] Default save location

 

A question has come up on the forum re. the default "Save" directory.
Apparently on Windows 7 the default location is "%programfiles%\Audacity 1.3
Beta (Unicode)\Modules" 

The question is, where is the default Save location defined and is it
possible to build Audacity with a different default Save location?
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=16
<http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=25875> &t=25875

Steve D