setting folder to search in

[jimbir]

I'm working with Acad 2004. When I click the open file button, I'm looking at a folder called template. I have set the  the path to the folder my drawings in the "start in" window on the acad short cut. I've rebooted my computer, reopened acad, hit open and still see the content in the template folder. Can someone help me to get my drawings forlder to come up when I hit the open button?

Thanks. Jim B.

[Kent1Cooper]

Just navigate once to your drawings folder and Open something.  What the Open dialog box comes up in is the last place you opened a drawing in with the Open command [whether typed or by icon -- but not by double-clicking on a file name in something like Windows Explorer].  So once you open one in the "right" folder via the Open command, that will be the folder it comes up in next time, and subsequently until you navigate to some other place to Open something.

[jimbir · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply. What you suggested didn't work but it put me on the right track.

Here's what I had to do to get to get this to work. I clicked on file then open. Next I navigated to libraries .  documents . My documents . 1 drawings.  (In explorer the file path looks like this: C:\Users\JLB\Documents\1 Drawings). Next, I  had to change the The "files of type" to drawings  on the "select file" window. It was set to drawing template. I then opened one of the files that appeared in the window. Now it works like I want it to.

This turned out to be a little more complicated than anticipated.

Thanks again.