How do I make TextEdit remember last Save As location in Mountain Lion? First off, I have disabled iCloud as default location for Save As dialogs in TextEdit.app:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false

… But still, I have one critical beef in TextEdit:

Save As… dialogs don't remember the last location where I saved a file! To the best of my knowledge, this used to be the case prior to (Mountain) Lion.

How can I restore this behavior?



Example use case:


Open TextEdit.
Type something.
Hit ⌘W.
Save As dialog appears; choose ~/Desktop.
Quit and reopen TextEdit.
Repeating steps 1–3 … it doesn't default to ~/Desktop! (It's always ~/Documents.)
There is software that can track this folder and augment the standard behavior that you are seeing.

I find Default Folder to be the best of class, and you can try it for free and then decide if it's worth paying once you've had a chance to kick the tires a bit.

http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/