"Save As"

kwb737 said:

I have small problem I can't figure out. I have a Text file on notepad in my main documents folder in file explorer. When I open it and click on file then click on "Save As" desktop does not open as the place I want to send it. The contents of my main documents folder opens instead. How do I make "Desktop" default location for "Save As"? Thanks.

I don't think you can. What you CAN do is "browse" to the Desktop for the first text file. After that it should remember your choice until you choose to save it somewhere else, or until you run a program like... CCleaner or the like.

Then add your Desktop to your File explorer, Quick access so you can get there easily in the SaveAs dialog.
Quick Access - Add or Remove folders - TenForums
How to Pin or Unpin Folder Locations for Quick access - TenForumsTutorials

By the way, your experience is not normal behaviour. You should not need to do anything special to have SaveAs remember its last-used path.
- Open and SaveAs remember their own last-used paths and are not forced to use the same paths as each other.
- Open and SaveAs need to be set individually for each application. You cannot just set up, say, Notepad and expect, say, WordPad to use the same folders.

Denis

kwb737 said:

That's what I thought but it doesn't seem to remember.

I don't know then. I only use notepad (have no Office products installed), and text files seem to automatically save to the Desktop.






/edit
Found this...

Can't save txt files to Desktop

Fixed: Cannot Save Files to Desktop in Windows 10

kwb737 said:

Thank you anyway. It's really no big deal. Thank you.

See my edit above.

Did you see post #4?

Denis