Bug 329545 - "File > New" and "Save As" don't support creating files outside the Workspace
Summary: "File > New" and "Save As" don't support creating files outside the Workspace
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 87863
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2010-11-05 09:26 EDT by Martin Oberhuber CLA
Modified: 2011-02-22 20:00 EST (History)
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Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 2010-11-05 09:26:46 EDT 
Build ID: Eclipse SDK 3.6.1
CQ: WIND00239897

During a debug session, I need to quickly create a file on my USB drive or in my debug target's data area. I'd intuitively want to use File > New in my Eclipse based IDE to do so, but it's not possible to create / save files outside the workspace.

Eclipse-based IDE's are seen as an editor by many users, and any good editor should support creating files outside their project concept (workspace). Not having the functionality where it's intuitively expected is a usability problem.
Comment 1 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2010-11-05 09:32:01 EDT 
Bug 329546 is a related request for improved usability across applications.
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2010-11-05 09:43:16 EDT 
The text editor is actually the one that opens the SaveAsDialog if an IFileEditorInput is used (see AbstractDecoratedTextEditor's performSaveAs(IProgressMonitor) method).

Though perhaps it should be up to the SaveAsDialog to allow saving outside the workspace?

See also bug 87863 and bug 314149.
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2010-11-05 11:29:41 EDT 
Use File > New > Untitled Text File to create a file that can be saved outside the workspace.

The Save As issue is a general Platform UI issue which can't be solved by Text alone.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 87863 ***
Comment 4 Dani Megert CLA 2010-11-05 11:31:23 EDT 
>Use File > New > Untitled Text File to create a file that can be saved outside
>the workspace.
Sorry, that doesn't work as it will force you to save inside the workspace.
Comment 5 Mike CLA 2011-02-22 20:00:04 EST 
What would really be nice is if you could save any type of file outside of the workspace, ie. add a 'filesystem' item to the save-as dialog box.