Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: WG: dont use C:\Windows as working directory when installed using microsoft store Date: 17 May 2025 15:54:12 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 17 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de vXsbnJnbQt2A3MIwuNmJwwJEOoTo/8R9uj09b4xEco/wlq Cancel-Lock: sha1:hENf8bsZ/b8pw3I1wnDiPo3+SKo= sha256:peH/PCZi2DPykmOnfeRIZ+XnqY+z+rBInrBQJCTrCGA= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US T N wrote or quoted: >whenever i try to save a new file it prompts me to put it If you want to try setting a different default save spot in IDLE on Windows, here is what you could try - though I am not totally sure it will work: Find the IDLE shortcut, either in your Start Menu or on your Desktop. Right-click it and hit "Properties". Go to the "Shortcut" tab and look for the "Start in" box. Swap out whatever is in "Start in" for the folder you want, like "C:\Users\exampleusername\python_code".