Answer by NeutronStar for Change default opening and saving location in Visual Studio Code?

To set the default open and save path in Visual Studio Code, follow the steps

1. Find and open settings.json file.
2. Find the key "files.dialog.defaultPath", if not present add it anywhere in the file (I added at the end).
3. Specify the location where you want to open and save files and folders by default, e.g."files.dialog.defaultPath": "D:\\Workspace\\JavaProjects" (You need to specify double backslash on Windows, also double quotes are included everywhere).
4. Save and close the file. Open VS Code, click on Open File or Folder menuitem in File menu. VS Code will open System file and folder selection dialog with default path set as specified in the settings.json file.

Tested on VS Code 1.93.1 on Windows 11