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Kovid - if I were to complain to M$ or Qt I doubt I'd live long enough to see an outcome
My post was intended for DrChiper, I've rectified that.
I would ask Microsoft to provide a setting in Folder Options that would have the effect of saying "In the select folder dialogue ignore the starting folder that comes from the application, instead always use <wherever> as the starting folder. My <wherever> would be "This PC".
BR