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These are more like complaints that need to be addressed, all regarding the Open menu in the current build of VLC. I know someone knows about it, because it went from badly broken to still badly broken in one of the recent releases.

First of all, why are there two Open menus to begin with? Open and Advanced Open? Why not stick with Windows conventions and use the standard Open menu.

The current "Open" (that is, not "Advanced Open") has the following problems:

- It opens at My Documents, okay maybe this isn't a problem and if the second problem didn't exist, it would be fine.
- It does not retain last-opened-location. That is, if I open the Open menu, navigate to C:\My Videos\ and open a file, opening that menu again would take me to My Documents, and not back to C:\My Videos\, depending on the path to your files this is extremely irritating for in anything except very casual viewing.

The current "Advanced Open" dialogue has the following problems:
- Upon navigating to a folder that is populated with files and folders, it may appear completely empty. After using the drop down box to select the exact same location that has already been navigated to, the files and folders reappear.
- The function of the "Up One Level", back and forward buttons causes similar effects, however sometimes VLC finds things that are not even in the folder being navigated to. It often shows the previous state of the same folder, and not the current. Very annoying.
- Normally in Windows, entering a path or (as simple as "C:\") in the "File Names:" box would navigate you to that path, showing the paths contents. In VLC's "Advanced Open" it immediately attempts to open said path, obviously failing if you are trying to play your drive letter.

With these annoying bugs, neither menu is intuitive, standard or useful and both need to be abolished in favor of the usual, standard Windows open menu.

I love VLC, but with these changes (Unsure when they occured, I've been putting up with them for a long time, hoping with each version that someone would have figured this out), it is increasingly bothersome to use.

First of all, why are there two Open menus to begin with? Open and Advanced Open?

Advanced open is for advanced users, while simple open is when you want to use windows shares.

The current "Advanced Open" dialogue has the following problems:
- Upon navigating to a folder that is populated with files and folders, it may appear completely empty. After using the drop down box to select the exact same location that has already been navigated to, the files and folders reappear.

It appear completely empty because it only looks for registered extensions or media file types

- The function of the "Up One Level", back and forward buttons causes similar effects, however sometimes VLC finds things that are not even in the folder being navigated to. It often shows the previous state of the same folder, and not the current. Very annoying.

Its not possible to find files that are not belonging to the current folder. BTW, at this point you made no sense at all, back and forward buttons works as intended.

- Normally in Windows, entering a path or (as simple as "C:\") in the "File Names:" box would navigate you to that path, showing the paths contents. In VLC's "Advanced Open" it immediately attempts to open said path, obviously failing if you are trying to play your drive letter.

Then you should just use simple Open file. So what QT4's file browser doesn't behave like window's native.

With these annoying bugs, neither menu is intuitive, standard or useful and both need to be abolished in favor of the usual, standard Windows open menu.

This post makes no sense at all and is total crap B/S.

The current "Open" (that is, not "Advanced Open") has the following problems:
- It opens at My Documents, okay maybe this isn't a problem and if the second problem didn't exist, it would be fine.
- It does not retain last-opened-location. That is, if I open the Open menu, navigate to C:\My Videos\ and open a file, opening that menu again would take me to My Documents, and not back to C:\My Videos\, depending on the path to your files this is extremely irritating for in anything except very casual viewing.

This will be fixed in the upcoming 1.0.

The current "Advanced Open" dialogue has the following problems:
- Upon navigating to a folder that is populated with files and folders, it may appear completely empty. After using the drop down box to select the exact same location that has already been navigated to, the files and folders reappear.
- The function of the "Up One Level", back and forward buttons causes similar effects, however sometimes VLC finds things that are not even in the folder being navigated to. It often shows the previous state of the same folder, and not the current. Very annoying.
- Normally in Windows, entering a path or (as simple as "C:\") in the "File Names:" box would navigate you to that path, showing the paths contents. In VLC's "Advanced Open" it immediately attempts to open said path, obviously failing if you are trying to play your drive letter.

The advanced open in 1.0, will be removed as it is, and will display the normal native dialog, as for normal open.

Sounds perfect, thanks.

it also happens for open folders btw..i suggest a remember last open path or at least a default path, as most people save videos to a same folder instead of C:/Windows/System32