On 16 Jan 2015, at 01:16, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote:
> So, great, I thought, just override -currentDirectory in the 
> NSDocumentController subclass for TextEdit, and I can make it go wherever I 
> want to.

 Have you thought about just setting the directoryURL of the NSOpenPanel?

> But, no.  Although my -currentDirectory override is invoked when I click menu 
> > File > Open, any path I return seems to be ignored.  If no document is open 
> (no “current document”), it seems to always somehow remember and go to the 
> directory of the last document that was opened, even if this was in a 
> long-app application run.  This is the case even if I delete the “recents” 
> file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TextEdit.LSSharedFileList.plist before 
> launching.  And no such path is shown when I run the command “defaults 
> com.appleTextEdit”.  The system must be remembering this path elsewhere.

It's probably saved as a binary blob of bookmark data (maybe even a security 
scoped bookmark), not as a plain text path name, for reliability.

-- Uli
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