TextEdit "forgets" last folder

When I create a new document in TextEdit, it was always useful that it would open the "Save as" window in the folder I had last used in TextEdit.
I am not sure when or after what changes in my system, it just won't do that anymore: it always gets back to "documents" folder.
This change in behavior seems to be restricted to TextEdit - Pages, Numbers and Safari still show me the last folder used for saving.
I tested creating a new user account, and indeed it works as before, so the problem seems to be restricted to my main (administrator) user account.
Could anyone help me troubleshoot this issue?
Thanks a lot!

Since the issue is specific to your original user account, you can proceed in two ways. One is to log into your new account, make a list of the preference files (plists) located in /username/Library/Preferences/, including any in the ByHost subfolder, log back into the original account, move everything on that other account's list from the original account's Preferences folder into a newly created folder on the Desktop, log out and back in, and see if the problem goes away. If so, you can copy the ones in the Desktop folder (one at time) back into /Preferences/, restart, and see if the problem returns. If so, you've identified the corrupt/conflicting one. Continue with all of them until isolating the bad ones. That'll save you the trouble of resetting preferences.
The second way is much more detailed and I'll not burden you with the steps unless the above doesn't fix the issue.

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