Saving to original location

I have been helping some friends switch over to Mac. One of the most common questions is "why doesn't it save back to where I opened the file from, like on the pc?"
Does anyone know how to make files save back to their original location? Thanks. -dr

First off, behavior with a network may be different than using and saving files on your local drives, since I'm not on a network, I can't check that. However, behavior for local files should be just what everyone has said: it will save to wherever you opened the file.
Thus, I just launched TextEdit, it created a new file, and I hit Save--the location that appeared was the last folder I had saved something to. Closed the file, opened one in the Documents folder, hit "Save as" and the location was the Documents folder. Closed the file, opened a file from a folder on a different drive, buried 4 steps deep on that drive, hit "Save as" and the location was the folder the original file is in. I then opened a file on my iDisk, in the Sites folder, hit "Save as" and the default location was again just what I expected: the Sites folder on the iDisk. AFAIK this is the default behavior for all applications that use the standard Apple suite for Save and Save as. However, as has been pointed out, applications don't HAVE to do this, they can write their system for default behavior, and some do. There are applications that have in their preference the ability to set a default folder of the user's choice to automatically offer as a first choice.
Also, you can often use the drop down menu next to the name of the suggested folder in the Save or Save As sheet to select a different spot in hierarchy, or a different folder from the "Recent Places" which appears after the hierarchy listing. Furthermore, you can drag 'n drop any folder you have open in the Finder into the navigation pane to start from there in the Save sheet.
Finally, if you want to open the folder your file came from in Finder, just hold the Command key and click on the title in the title bar of the open file. You'll get the path list for the file, click on any item in the path to open that in Finder.
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