Change ''My Documents'' to something else

[irastewart]

I have a special file where I keep all of my music videos. It is buried deep inside my computer.

Previously, I clicked on ''Media'' and ''Open File...'' on my VLC media player and there were my music videos. This is no longer the case after I upgraded to the VLC media player version 1.0.5.

Now when I click on ''Media'' and ''Open File...'', I get the ''My Documents'' file. My music videos are not in ''My Documents'' or anywhere near there. So now I have to click about eight times to get to my music videos. Sometimes, after a long day, I have to click more than eight times because I keep making mistakes when I click.

I can't seem to put it it back the way it was. Any ideas?

I have Windows XP with Service Pack 3.

Also, I would like to thank everyone involved with the VLC media player project. It's a great player and much better than some others that we all know about.

Ira

[chatbox]

When you click on Open File, VLC should be displaying the location of your last opened file.

e.g. If I open a file in VLC from say F:\Data\Music\320kbps-MP3s\ , then close VLC, then start VLC again, then the next time I click on Open File again, VLC should default to F:\Data\Music\320kbps-MP3s\.

Isn't this behaviour happening to you?

[irastewart]

I thank you for your reply.

When I closed everything up and maybe shut everything down including my computer, the the next time I clicked on ''Media'' and ''Open file...'', I kept getting the ''My Documents'' file regardless of what was opened when I shut everything down. I realise this is not typical behaviour for Windows.

I continued to work on the problem after I made my last post. I shut my computer off and turned it back on a few times. I was getting ready to re-intall the upgrade when the original problem mysteriously went away! Everything is fine now!

I suspect there may have been a glitch in my upgraded installation?

Best wishes,
Ira

[VLC_help]

The location is stored to %appdata%\vlc\vlc-qt-interface.ini and it is called filedialog-path= and if it gets corrupted, VLC defaults to My Document