JFileChooser change default directory in Windows

Question

I want to change the default directory of my JFileChooser to "My Music" on Windows. This directory is C:\Users\Fre\Music on my account because my username is Fre

The default is set on C:\Users\Fre\Documents (depends on OS i think). How can I change this?

Answer 1

You can use the API method setCurrentDirectory when initializing your JFileChooser objects:

public void setCurrentDirectory(File dir)

Sample usage might be like:

yourFileChooser.setCurrentDirectory(new File  
(System.getProperty("user.home") + System.getProperty("file.separator")+ "Music"));

Answer 2

why don't you just give the FileChooser the path when you create it, like:

JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser("C:\\Users\\Fre\\Music\\");