Is there a simple way to set a default directory to open files from and save files to?

It bugs me that I have to navigate to it again every time a open Pd fresh.

Just wondering...

Thanks

[symbol D:/samples/animals(
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[openpanel]
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[open $1(
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[print]

Thanks sinewave. I couldn't get it to work. Maybe I got the path wrong? I'm on Mac...

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/R_openpanel.pd

"~" means your home folder, and Pd doesn't recognize "Macintosh HD". Just starting the path with "/" is enough for Pd to think it is an absolute path. Basically, "/" means "Macintosh HD". So I imagine these two would work:

[symbol ~/Documents/sound/Pd(

or

[symbol /Users/thebeast/Documents/sound/Pd(

wow, i didn't know that, thanks.
it works for me on wxp and [symbol D:/something(

Hey glitchpop!
I tried it on Mac too and it works for me. It looks like this:

[symbol /Users/myname/Music/iTunes(
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[openpanel]

...and it goes directly to the specified folder. Maybe the tilda symbol (~) in your example makes confusion... I've opened "get info" of the folder I'm looking for and simply rewrote it's location in the message.

Thanks guys.

Both work =) as suspected (oh and replacing [openpanel] with [savepanel] gives the save version.)

So I assume I have to make this an abstraction and put it into my patches?

There's no way to add it as a path to default to?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/R_openpanel.pd

Ok so I made some little guis for this and what I wanna know is, is there a way to have mini-patches (eg guis) that aren't objects easily dropped into a patch?

Or do I have to make an [open_n_save] and then copy-paste into the patch I'm working on?

thanks again (the minutia can be fun)

*I called them those weird names to avoid conflicts considering they're such common terms.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/open_n_save.pd

Ok so I made some little guis for this and what I wanna know is, is there a way to have mini-patches (eg guis) that aren't objects easily dropped into a patch?

Or do I have to make an [open_n_save] and then copy-paste into the patch I'm working on?

thanks again (the minutia can be fun)

*I called them those weird names to avoid conflicts considering they're such common terms.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/open_n_save.pd

Ok so I made some little guis for this and what I wanna know is, is there a way to have mini-patches (eg guis) that aren't objects easily dropped into a patch?

Or do I have to make an [open_n_save] and then copy-paste into the patch I'm working on?

thanks again (the minutia can be fun)

*I called them those weird names to avoid conflicts considering they're such common terms.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/open_n_save.pd

So... This method still doesn't change the default setting. Is there a way to do that?

glitchpop, you could make an abstraction with

[inlet bang]
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[t b]
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[symbol /Users/myname/Music/iTunes(
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[openpanel]
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[outlet]

in it, then call that abstraction every time you wanted an open panel, rather than calling on [openpanel]

https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/3705/openpanel-vs-filenames-with-spaces/10