file browser: getting to working folder 1

[marybernard]

I use Photoshop 7 on a PC running Win XP Pro. I store my images in folders on my second hard drive, drive F. But the File Browser doesn't save the last-used folder, but defaults to C: My Documents, which is now, and always will be, empty. That means I have to click through 5 steps to reach my working folder. Is there any way of making Photoshop remember my setting for the file browser?

Mary

 

[barehug]

Maybe mucking around with the *.ini file or registry will do this or you could just make a shortcut to where your files are stored in drive F and drop the shortcut into my documents. Then when it defaults there, just take the shortcut to the folder in the other drive.

Moe: It could have been a real ugly situation, but luckily I managed to shoot him in the spine.

 

[marybernard]

Barehug:

>> mucking around with the *.ini file or registry will do this<<

I can't find a photoshop.ini file anywhere on my XP Pro HD. (I searched for all .ini files and looked through them - nothing that looked like a photoshop .ini. I tried the registry, searching for 'photoshop' - couldn't find any keys that defined where the File Browser opens. But your final suggestion -

>> or you could just make a shortcut to where your files are stored in drive F and drop the shortcut into my documents. Then when it defaults there, just take the shortcut to the folder in the other drive.<<

- does work. It's not perfect, since my working folder changes depending on which batch of photos I'm working on, but it at least gets me to where I only need to click about twice to open the current working folder.

(In a perfect world I'd remember to drop a shortcut to that folder in Documents every time I switch - but somehow I'm always in Photoshop before I think of such things...)

Anyhow, thanks. You've made my Photoshop life a bit easier!

Mary