look at
http://www.ledru.be/bug/CoffeeCupPreferencesBug.html

Those E and G disks, what are they? Are they regular hard drives mounted in your computer, or are they external? If external, do you connect them to the same USB port every time? If they are disks located in another computer that you connect to via a LAN, do you plug in and out external disks via USB so that the drive letter changes?

Just trying to understand the problem better, so please be specific. If it really is a bug, we'll forward it to the CC staff.

This is normal behavior. If you change the default working folder you'll need to restart the editor.

I think he had done that, see the page he has linked to.

Ya I saw that. I was just reaffirming his findings. To me it works correctly because you really don't want easy access to changing that folder when it gets set for each project automatically. Not sure why he needs to change it but it might be that fact that he's testing on his pc in wamp and now wants to go live.

If you have a project open, that project will be the default working folder. You cannot override it. You would have to close the website project first and then you could change it.

It would make more sense to move your website project folder to that location instead.

@ Inger : E and G are not external disks, not on USB, not located in another computer, are simply like C. I have one hard disk divided in several parts :

C for OS Windows,
E (called DATA) for data (also readable by Linux),
G (called DATA_WIN) for data (only readable by Windows applications )

Look at : http://www.ledru.be/bug/CoffeeCupPreferences5.PNG

@ Eric Rohloff : If you change the default working folder you'll need to restart the editor. It's normal behavior. You are right. But, if you re-start (start again and again) normally the default working folder don't change itself ! ... . To me, the default working folder changes itself to the default working folder that was when i created the project

Will be the best to have not a button to change the default working folder ?

Each project have a default working folder.
But, it seems not a default image folder for each project ...

@ Scott Swedorski : You are right. I don't use "normally" CoffeCup HTML Editor to make a website but to make documentation (for me). Then, i have created only one "project" for all my HTML files ... Then, i change often the default working folder ...

For documentation, HTML is better than TXT. Then, i don't use Windows Notepad but a HTML editor. With Windows Notepad, create a project is no sense (same case with Notepad ++)

CoffeeCup HTML Editor is designed to create websites. One website, one project.
But, create HTML files without a project, is it possible with CoffeeCup HTML Editor ?

About me and HTML editors :

My first HTML editor was FrontPage Express of Microsoft (for free !). After, I bought FrontPage2000 of Microsoft, good to manage files for a website, reports, ... but code is not so good. After, I receive WebExpression of Microsoft, better than FrontPage2000, but doesn't code in HTML 5

And now, CoffeeCup HTML Editor . I like it because I like to have a good code ( I'm not a webdesigner, but a PHP developper )

Sounds to me like a confusion between default working folder and project folder(s). There is usually only 1 default working folder when you set this up. From there you add folders in your chosen default folder for your projects. I think you're confusing it much more than it needs to be. Once you choose a default working folder, it doesn't change on you. I haven't ever had that happen to me at least.

Then all you do is create a new project for each project you work on and give it a location within the default folder so basically you have specific project folders within the default folder.

This makes it much more accessible for you to keep all your working projects in one location rather than all over your drives. I could see no sense in having multiple default folders for this. Maybe I'm totally misunderstanding, but seems like you're trying to complicate things much more than are needed.

Nanar,



That sounds much like my own setup. I just wanted to make you aware that external disks sometimes get a different drive letters (well, you probably knew that).



Of course you can create websites without having to create a project. The 'project thingie' came about some years ago, probably because a lot of users came complaining about not being able to find their images and various other things on the computer, or they didn't display online, due to having been uploaded to a wrong location, not to the ones that were specified in the paths. So with a project, you would get all the files pertaining to a site co-located, and there would be less risk of making mistakes when uploading.

I'm old fashioned to the extent that I don't use 'projects'. Some of the other people in here tease me because of this. I have been around computers and websites long enough to be aware of where I have my files and folders. And I like the full control I have when I upload stuff myself. To me you sound like the same sort of person.

With websites I have the following setup: C:\( path to Documents)\html\ (it could have been on a different drive, but well...). Inside the folder html I have subfolders for each site I'm creating. And inside each of those again, I have subfolders for images, css, scripts etc, depending on what I need for each site. My 'working' folder has been set to the 'html' folder, and from there I manually open the subfolder I want. Setting my working folder this way has never been a problem, and I have been doing it this way since I started using the 'Editor' (2004), and even before that with other software (starting with Notepad in 1996, then via Homesite, FirstPage etc). I'm not saying that you should do it my way, just an example of how it can be sucessfully done.

In the HTML Editor, all the 'New' options you find under File will create pages without them being part of a project. Under 'My Websites' are the various options for projects. Take your pick!

@ Jo Ann : You are right. Now, I create a new project for each project you work on even this project is not a website.

@ Inger : Me too, I like the full control I have when I upload stuff myself ( by Filezilla, I don't use CoffeeCup upload fonctionnality )

Me too, inside my two folders HTML I have subfolders for each site/documentation I'm creating. And inside each of those again, I have subfolders for images, css, scripts etc, depending on what I need for each site/documentation.

One folder, on drive E, is for little websites ( not often modified )
The other folder, on drive G, is for documentation of websites created in PHP.

Me too, I created my firt HTML pages with Notepad (in 1997). My first website is for a belgian ecologist association : compagnons-eole.eu

And, I was a beekeeper, too !

@ all : Thanks for your help.

PS: If you need help for CoffeeCup HTML editor translation into French, call me.