Export re-using previously used folder

[ceesjw]

Maybe not really a bug, but more a 'lost feature'. 

I always use export with 'choose folder later'. Lightroom Classic lost a nice featere here. Some versions ago it would show the same folder that was used at the previous export. Very welcome like for re-exporting after some changes and also as start to navigate quickly to a new folder. Now that feature has been lost, which means that we have to navigate the whole folder-tree each time. 

Can we get this feature back please?

Lightroom Classic 13.1

Windows 10

Cees

[GoldingD]

I am confused. Current behavior in the Import screen, in the Destination Panel, is for the destination to be whatever was previously used. Is this not what you are seeing?

[richardplondon]

The OP referred to exporting, not importing. It's not clear to me which previous export location the "ask me each time" option is remembering as its offered default, but clearly it is remembering something.

Just: not, as would seem most logical, the most recent answer given to that question.

[GoldingD]

Ah, David David David, read twice answer once. Yep Export not Import, my bad

So, in the following example, are you referring to the Export To box shown below (with a mouse click and showing the options for it)??

On my rig, this option defaults to previous (just like in various other options)

[ceesjw]

Yes, this the option used.

And in my case it has rembered some folder used months ago (probably from a previous version of Lightroom), and not the folder just most recently used for export, which was the case before and which I and many others clearly prefer. 

Cees

[Nick Collingwood]

Yes! I'm having this same issue too. I did change computers in the process so maybe that's it? 

Basically my issue is despite the fact that I have one library for 2025, and have exported 5-10 galleries since January, when I have "Choose Folder Later" selected in the export setting, it ALWAYS defaults to the same January export folder I used a while ago instead of any of my more recent export folders (especially if I even JUST exported and then needed to re-export to the same folder. Like say... a shoot from March or April I'm working on)

It's very annoying...

[ohnojojo]

I have the same problem, has anyone found a fix??

[richardplondon]

If you change the setting at the top to "specific folder" then that will be reliably remembered for the next time.

More flexibly, if there is a relatively small number of destination folders that you use, you can define each destination explicitly into a suitably named export preset. This would use "specific folder" not "choose folder later" at the top.

Then when exporting, you can (for example) click on the name of a different preset to retrieve all its settings into the main panel (this is not the same thing as checking the box next to the export preset). Doing it this way, you can now customise this export: for example typing a particular subfolder of that retrieved destination, different from the last time, that you want created for this current export batch to go into.

But if you then click onto a different preset, that is a potentially different 'starting' destination recalled - as well as whatever other settings may vary.

[ceesjw]

Thanks Richard, appreciate your feedback, good to know these options.
But also, my problem was solved at one time when I had to renew my
preference file, so after that, the export window comes back with the
previously used folder.
Cees Wouda

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