making shortcuts/favorites appear where I need them

[Guest]

What I mean is that when I'm working in my most used applications (Fireworks
and Dreamweaver from Macromedia) and I want to open a file, I click on file,
open, then I'm forced to scroll through several levels of folders before I
get to the place I want to be. I have a shortcut to my favorite folders on my
taskbar, but they're useless to me there. I need them inside the open file
dialogue box within the application. Is there a way to do this? To make
matters worse, when my memory is low my pc doesn't remember the last folders
I opened so I find myself spending an awful amount of time
click-click-clicking through my folders. I thought about putting a shortcut
to my folders on the desktop, but unlike Microsoft word, I don't even have a
desktop icon or favorites icon in the open file box that appears in my
Macromedia applications. Is there any way I can customize it the open file
box to add them? I'm so sick and tired of losing my time navigating instead
of working... Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Dilette]

Answer to that question (for most programs that is) has been
given above in the Older Message recalled below
("Re: add default explorer file shortcut?").

If Macromedia programs haven't the relevant shortcuts set,
and if TweakUI doesn't let you add them, then I see
no other option than writing Macromedia and ask them to
make their programs more compliant to Windows on that point
- which they may do.

Paris, dim. 13 mars 2005 12:06:25 +0100


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Lisa Pons" <Lisa (e-mail address removed)>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Tue 8 Mar 2005 00:31:03 -0800 (Paris 09:31:03 +0100)
Subject: making shortcuts/favorites appear where I need them

What I mean is that when I'm working in my most used
applications (Fireworks and Dreamweaver from Macromedia) and I
want to open a file, I click on file, open, then I'm forced to
scroll through several levels of folders before I get to the
place I want to be. I have a shortcut to my favorite folders on
my taskbar, but they're useless to me there. I need them inside
the open file dialogue box within the application. Is there a
way to do this? To make matters worse, when my memory is low my
pc doesn't remember the last folders I opened so I find myself
spending an awful amount of time click-click-clicking through my
folders. I thought about putting a shortcut to my folders on the
desktop, but unlike Microsoft word, I don't even have a desktop
icon or favorites icon in the open file box that appears in my
Macromedia applications. Is there any way I can customize it the
open file box to add them? I'm so sick and tired of losing my
time navigating instead of working... Thanks in advance
for your help.


----- Older Message -----
From: "Jason Haynes" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/eIO1WGP%[email protected]
Sent: Wed 12 Jan 2005 16:57:47 -0500 (Paris 22:57:47 +0100)
Subject: Re: add default explorer file shortcut?

TweakUI allows you to customize this
(common dialogs|places bar).

 

[Keith Miller]

I'm not familiar with your particular applications, but --

1) Do they always offer the same folder in an open/save dialog? Do their options allow to you change this location to one of your liking?

2) Have you tried putting shortcuts to the folders you want in the folder the program opens?

3) If you need true folder behavior from a shortcut (appearing in folder tree, cascading, etc), try the following:
a) open your Start Menu folder by right-clicking the Start button & selecting open.
b) open a second explorer window showing the folders you want shortcuts to.
c) right-click+drag the folder to the Start Menu -- release the mouse button and choose: 'Create Shortcut here'
d) move the shortcut you just created to the default open/save location for your software.
e) repeat for as many shortcuts as you want.

Hope this helps,
Keith

 

[Guest]

Lisa, How do I put my favorites on the taskbar? I have wracked my brain and
cannot figure out how to do this. Thanks, Nancy