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It seems that every time the start directory of SystemDialogInput is always the same, is it possible to set the start directory to the last used directory?

For example:

SystemDialogInput["FileOpen"]

enter image description here will start from the "Documents" directory, if I change to other directory and select some file, and run the second input dialog 

SystemDialogInput["FileOpen"]

it forgets the directory I chose in the first SystemDialogInput and starts from "Documents" directory again. Is it possible to set SystemDialogInput to always remember the last used directory?

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  • $\begingroup$ Use the second argument of SystemDialogInput, and store the path in some variable. $\endgroup$
    – Leonid Shifrin
    Jul 8, 2013 at 22:55

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You should simple do something like this:

file = SystemDialogInput["FileOpen"]

SystemDialogInput["FileOpen", DirectoryName@file]

and your directory is the last one you've visited.

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  • $\begingroup$ it's interesting. at first i started to write a RegularExpression and failed and then suddenly this nice function reared up...probably to often reinventing the wheel. $\endgroup$
    – Stefan
    Jul 8, 2013 at 23:16

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