Question Metapad - How can you setup a default save directory?

[Muse]

Used this for years as my default text editing program. So much more versatile than Notepad. Never cared for Wordpad. Am running Windows 10.

I have a shortcut to Metapad.exe in my taskbar. I have one directory that I like to save my personally generated .txt files. It's on my NAS. I don't want to save my personally generated .txt files on any of my PCs per se, where my other PCs can't see them and don't know where they are. They are best kept in my ...\txt folder on the NAS so all my machines can see them and I can find them... i.e. I KNOW where they are.

Problem is this: If I happen to open a .txt file that isn't in my dedicated folder for personally generated .txt files, I use Metapad to open it. If I then open Metapad and create a .txt file from scratch (i.e. using the shortcut in my taskbar), when I go to save the file it does not offer to save it in my preferred location but in the folder of the file that I last opened with Metapad. This regardless of having designated my preferred save location as the Start In for the shortcut.

Is there a way I can do this or am I stuck with something like creating a dummy file in my preferred location and launching it from a shortcut to it on my desktop? That requires a nasty in-between step of going to my desktop. Seems stupid.

 

[Muse]

Well, I found something. Not perfect but decent, I guess. I saved a blank file to my \txt folder on the NAS, calling it generic.txt. I changed the target for the shortcut on my taskbar from METAPAD.EXE to the generic empty .txt file itself, no mention of the launch application. That does open the empty generic text file. When I go to save what I create, the default save location IS my preferred location (even if the last opened .txt file was somewhere else). I can't hit the Save button or else it gets saved as generic.txt, instead have to go file/save as. That's one extra step but MUCH preferred to having to type in the whole path to my preferred save directory on the NAS, which is 18 characters.