Remember last folder location lost with Mac Lion updates

Question

Since Lion or Mountain Lion, we have had an annoying problem where the last folder location is not remembered in Illustrator. For example when updating links on multiple files, would like for the folder location to return to the last one used, but this would go to some folder 3 levels higher/
Found
http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/
fixes this. But hoping someone else has another solution as having to buy that for each computer would get costly for somethng that used to work. Also the software seems to not have bneen updated in a long time, adn don't wnat a solution that won't last.  Am on 10.8.2.

Answer 1

how about this Mike, the file opening dialog is handled by the OS, if it still does not remember, I could manually try to code it to stay in a folder.
select a couple of images before running, to test,
#target Illustrator
// script.name = relinkAllSelected_v2.jsx;
// script.description = relinks each selected placed images one at the time;
// script.required = select at least one linked image before running;
// script.parent = CarlosCanto // 7/12/11;  version 2 - 07/25/13
// script.elegant = false;
var idoc = app.activeDocument;
sel = idoc.selection;
if (sel.length>0)
          for (i=0 ; i<sel.length ; i++ )
                   if (sel[i].typename == "PlacedItem")
                            var iplaced = sel[i];
                            var ifile = iplaced.file;
                            var file = File.openDialog ("Select file to replace " + ifile.name);
                            if (file!=null) // skip if user Cancels
                                iplaced.file = file;
else
          alert("select at least one placed item before running");