"Save As" Default in Vegas 5

InterceptPoint wrote on 10/29/2004, 8:00 AM

I turn on Vegas 5 and bring up a recent project saved in a directory in my Vegas Project folder that I have set up for a project that I'm working. When I hit "Save As" to generate a new project based on the old one Vegas 5 defaults to "My Documents". That seems odd to me and I don't see any way to change it.

Note that a second "Save As" will default to the correct Projects folder. That's what I want the first save to do but it doesn't.

I can't find any fix for this in Preferences. Anybody have the answer or am I just stuck with this minor nuisance?

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 10/29/2004, 8:35 AM

Save As will open to the last directory you have accessed. It's a pain and is the reason we have Save VEG Wizard in Neon, which saves to the directories that you specifiy with one click.

Gary

InterceptPoint wrote on 10/29/2004, 9:51 AM

I have looked a little more at this behavior. As it turns (on my machine at least), Vegas does the "right thing" by selecting the project folder and not "My Documents" after I have selected the folder for a save a first time. You can then close Vegas as many times as you like and reopen and it saves to the Project folder as you would like and expect.

Reboot your system, load Vegas, open up a recent veg file or a new veg file and do a Save As and it will default to "My Documents". Vegas loses track of the "default" project directory on re-boot. You guys who never shut off your machine wouldn't ever notice.

This seems like a bug to me. Why would Sony use Windows to save the file locations for Vegas?

jetdv wrote on 10/29/2004, 2:28 PM

I reboot my machine all the time and never noticed it not staying on the "last save" location - wherever that might have been.

SonyTSW wrote on 10/29/2004, 5:22 PM

Vegas saves the last render folder in the prefs when it exits. There are only a couple of reasons that it will revert back to My Documents: you reset the prefs at startup, or the folder doesn't exist when Vegas is starting up.

Do you have your project on an external drive? If so, make sure the drive is plugged in and running before you start Vegas.

InterceptPoint wrote on 10/30/2004, 6:13 AM

Thanks for the inputs.

It's looking like this problem is unique to me. I am aware that Vegas will go back to "My Documents" if the most recent projects file no longer exists but that is not the case for the example I am citing.

It looks like this one will just have to stay as one of those small mysteries that you have to live with. Time to get on to more important problems.

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