Provide default screenshot directory setting

[OCLC]

Hello,

I set the screenshot folder as "/home/olivier/VirtualBox VMs/WindowsXP/Snapshots". This setting was made with the menu "Machine > Settings > General > Advanced > Snapshot folder".

However, VirtualBox does not take this setting into account. When I hit "Host+E", the save dialog insists on proposing "/home/olivier/VirtualBox VMs/WindowsXP". I must then change the proposed folder to the folder I really want.

Could you please take the folder choice into account correctly?

Also, and this point is a wish, I would like a shortcut for "immediate screenshot with no dialog box" (but into the right directory!).

Olivier (VirtualBox 5.2.22-dfsg-2 on Debian Linux)

[Socratis]

Replying to OCLC:

Could you please take the folder choice into account correctly?

You are confusing Snapshots (for which you set the directory) with Screenshots. Two completely different concepts. You cannot set the directory for Screenshots, it defaults to the VM's directory.

This ticket is [Invalid], unless someone can think it of as a RFE.

[Frank Batschulat (Oracle)]

We don't have the feature to set a standard location for guest-screenshots (HOST+E) like we do for the default snapshot location with:

"Machine > Settings > General > Advanced > Snapshot folder"

it is a legitimate request for enhancement to provide the same as

"Machine > Settings > General > Advanced > Screenshot folder"

and take that setting into account for the Screenshot dialog window.