Dialog box with default starting location?

Running LV2010. I want to prompt a user to save a file by opening a dialog box. This way the user can select the file and location of the file. Problem is, I want to open the dialog box starting in a default folder that I choose. The LV help for file functions say that if I wire a path to the file (use dialog) input and the file doesn't exist, it will throw an error. Is there a way to get it to open a dialog box that starts in a default folder? Thanks.
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File Dialog.vi has a 'start path' input. A dialog box will pop up starting at this path.
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