On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:45:04 -0700 "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote:
> If you have a recent version of Windows (8.1 or 10 for sure), you can move > your user-account Documents folder to your D: Drive and the apps that > default to it will find it where you put it, as will File Explorer, etc. > > Find the Documents folder in C:\Users\userID\, right click on the folder > name and select properties. Among those you should see either a tab or an > entry that specifies Location. > > You can do this with some of the other standard default folders, such as > Music and Pictures. > > Very handy if you have a small C: drive (such as a SSD). > > The idea of having different defaults by file type is an interesting one. > It probably flies in the face of using the standard platform > open/close/save/save-as functions, so might be trickier than one might > think. (I worry about having just one more way for the AOO user profile to > be corrupted [;<). Need a way not to surprise anyone who expects the > current behavior.) > > - Dennis I was thinking about this. Each application has automatically selected for its filetype dropdown the available file types in which it could save. The select of these could also coincide with the selection of the application specific directory. Note that I am only thinking about one specific directory for each application, in which all filetypes appropriate to that application will be saved (e.g. for Calc, all spreadsheet files, be they .ods, .xls etc). Anyway, it is an enhancement to consider. Rory > > -----Original Message----- > >From: Donald Miller [mailto:damill...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 08:40 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Path settings in newer releases > > By the way, could "options > paths" be made an easier setting and less easy > to be reset without permission? > Present default is up to 7 folder levels deep on C, but I have all my non > system files on D (for ease of backup). > I absolutely despise Bill Gates defaults, such as C:\Users\userID\Documents. > > Some programs let user settings reside in a text file, which can be backed > up and copied-in after updates. > > > > > Regards, > Donald A. Miller > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
