Thanks. I fixed this part of the problem by unchecking save to original file in preferences. Now it saves to the folder I took it from.
HOWEVER, it still won't open the most recent file when I click "OPEN". It defaults to "This PC-Pictures-etc. My folder that I am using is several click away under Users-Joseph- Pictures-Public Pictures-Joe and Helen-Trips-etc.
I have to constantly do all those clicks every time I want to open that folder to edit another photo from the folder. Any ideas?