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If I use the a certain dir to create a project after starting from a fresh userdir, the next project creation will default to that location as well. I would suggest that if I open a project with a fresh userdir, it do the same thing.
Probably a duplicate of the general issue (can't remember # offhand) that we need to have a shared API for tracking the "last-used directory" from a variety of file choosers.
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