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When an app remembers I've opened:
C:\a\b\c\d\blah.txt
...and the next time I try to open blah.txt and it's no longer there, instead of defaulting the File | Open dialog box to something completely unrelated such as My Documents, why not walk back up the original path? And if the parent doesn't exist, continue until you've reached the root level. Then if the drive itself is no longer there, then it's probably ok to go to My Documents.
In other words, if I'm trying to access some convoluted, deeply nested folder, and it's no longer valid, please leave me somewhere within that hierarchy - at the closest valid parent. It's easy enough to reach My Documents from anywhere. Not so with where I'm actually more likely to look.
As developers, we should all do this. And because we should all do this, then this should actually be the standard behavior for the dialog box.
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Tell that to the developers for Microsoft Office. When I save an attachment from an e-mail, they pick folders at random: My Documents, C:\, C:\Windows, the desktop, etc. The only consistency is it's never the last folder I chose to save an attachment to. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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dandy72 wrote: As developers, we should all do this
I can understand when that might be nice but not all the time.
It is Windows which means you can always write code to make it do what you want. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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011111100010 wrote: I can understand when that might be nice but not all the time.
Fine, make it a flag then.
011111100010 wrote: It is Windows which means you can always write code to make it do what you want
I do it. Over and over and over again. I'm saying most app developers don't go through the hassle of doing it. And more often than not, that's exactly what would be the most time-saving approach in most situations.
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Are Spirit Guides people who know where the Gin is?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ask Nagy! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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It's the spirit that moves them. They therefore can only tell you where the gin was.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Just before christmas, I was out shopping with the missus, and she could tell that all the people, the christmas decorations and music etc was getting on my nerves...
So she asked me: "Where's your christmas spirit?"
And my answer was: "What do you mean? It's right there on the shelf in the liquor store!" 
True story! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 17-Jan-18 11:19am.
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No, that is just whiskeyful thinking. 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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vodka you talkin about?
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Please beer with me, and stop wineing!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Wasn't there a book, Tequila Thunderbird or something like that?
Software Zen: delete this;
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The day's shot with another rum idea for a pun. Many rye remarks will will be brandied about and ale you do is sit back and gin at the responses.
None of this will koumiss a surprise to you!
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W∴ Balboos wrote: for a punch
FTFY
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Only NaGin, The God of all the Spirits...
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I was in PC World last night and they were selling LG TV's - why not Bi-sexual ones too? Doesn't seem like a PC world.
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And come to that, where are the one legged ones?
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OriginalGriff wrote: where are the one legged ones?
All of the monitors here are one-legged. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I thought that monitors have four legs, a long tail and lots of teeth. Look here: Monitors[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I can see three on at least two of them!
And the others, perhaps club-footed?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: And come to that, where are the one legged ones?
They still are trying to get off Hawaii, where all others already ran for it on saturday.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Were there any BT phones?
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Did it have BT connection? In that case it's a very PC World.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I hope you're not assuming my gender 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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