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Save vs Save as button

A topic by komehara created Oct 10, 2021 Views: 141 Replies: 4
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Suggestion: split Save button into Save (on last file) and Save as (new file) button.

Currently, the app remembers the file name but not its path, and will prompt for the save path on every save. If you don’t put your project in the default folder (the app folder), you need to reselect this folder each time.

A button that saves the project in the current/last path, as in other apps, mapped to Ctrl+S, would help. On first save, it would act like Save as.

Then the current button would become Save as with a different icon, and mapped to Ctrl+Shift+S.

Related: on exit, if state is dirty, the app can prompt for save / don’t save / cancel. This will require storing the current project file path, so should be implemented after the first suggestion has been done.

Hi komehara

Thank you for your feedback. Are you on Windows, Mac or Linux ? Normally Ctrl+S opens the Save Window, and the app remembers the last used path.

On exit, if state is dirty, the app prompts for save / don’t save / cancel and the app remembers the current project file path.

I am on Linux.

So, with the last version on Linux, Ctrl+S / Save now opens the path selection prompt at the last location. The dirty save prompt also works.

However, Save is is still bound to a Save as behaviour. Save should just save on the last path without prompting for anything (as in a text editor). So there is still a need to distinguish Save and Save as. Especially as 99% of the time, you just want to save your latest changes at the same file location, without an extra double-click on the existing file + confirm Replace file.

👍 you are right