File Operation Dialog Box (keep last Monitor setting)

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Dear developers,

Could you add a preference setting to retain the monitor where a file copy/move dialog was last put on. It would just have to save the location of the monitor (if that monitor is still available) and the next time a file operation happens, the dialog opens on that monitor. If the monitor isn't available, place it on the main display. The Preference could be something like:

"File Operation Dialog Placement" with a combo box having: "Main Display", "Monitor 2", "Monitor 3" (I have 3 monitors so enumerating the number of monitors is important) and "Last Monitor Placement if available'

The setting could be placed under File Operations -> Monitor Placement (a new category) or File Operations -> Progress Indicators

Please let me know if this suggestion sounds interesting enough to be implemented in the short term?

Thank you in advance.

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Please link your account.

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hi Leo, my account is now linked. Cheers!

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Thank you! We'll add this to the request list.

(I thought we already had an option, but after looking I think I was confusing it with the one for button editors.)

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We've added this for the next beta. Thanks for the suggestion!

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Hopefully that dialog box won’t stay hidden on a disconnected monitor from now on :wink:

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Has that ever been a problem? It normally opens centred on the window it's opening for, which would always be on-screen.

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Not that I know. I’m just joking about the irony that while dialog.LoadPosition() is going to be adapted to avoid invisible dialogs in the next build, the same problem could potentially be introduced in the file operation dialog in the very same build. It would be kind of funny.

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Hi Leo, thank you very much for considering my suggestion. Much appreciated.

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Unlikely. And the new mode will be off by default in any case.