The Media Picker doesnt' remember the last folder it picked from

[marcemarc]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

15.2.1

Bug summary

origin story

This may have been introduced in Umbraco 6?,..maybe Umbraco 7, the old issue tracker seems to be done - but certainly by 7.4 as can see it's functionality referred to in this reported issue... #3242 anyway enough of the origin story, what's the issue.

the issue

Essentially when an editor is authoring content and either using the Media Picker within the Rich Text Editor or the standalone Media Picker, or when they are navigating between content items and using the Media Picker on different content nodes. the Media Picker does not remember the last folder they picked from.

This is a pain for editors for a couple of reasons,

Content editing and creation tasks, often involve uploading multiple images, and then as you write your article, you might insert the image in between paragraphs, if you bulk uploaded the images to the Media Section first, or during the first use of the picker, then after you have picked one, and move to the next insertion point, and fire up the media picker... you'll start from the root folder an have to navigate deep into your Media structure to find the folder and pick another image from the batch you have just uploaded. If you just uploaded via the picker, you might not remember where that folder is, if your images are all called 12012025-123-12.jpg you might not be able to search. It's frustrating.

Similarly when picking a single image, from a Media Picker, if you happen to navigate deep into your media folder structure, and double tap the wrong image, then to reselect the correct one, you have to clear the picked image, and the you start again with the media picker at the root and have to navigate all the way through to find your folder to pick the right one, it's frustrating.

And when moving between documents, perhaps you are creating several 'Profile Pages' for your company's Our Team page, you know the ones with the round images of the smiling well photographed faces, and then the black and white blurry one of the new starter... well here you likely have uploaded all the new images into the Media section, and then create the Profile Page in the content section, one after another, each time when you use the Media Picker, you have to navigate all the way through the Media folders to find the images to pick from, it's frustrating.

Previously in Umbraco, in all these scenarios, Umbraco would remember the last folder the picker picked from (sometimes this was annoying in a different context, but it was easy to reset, and having the previous folder picked far outweighed that inconvenience in the circumstances where it seemed to intuitively help the editor in their task!)

I've made a couple of videos to illustrate the above - one in V15 and one in V13... notice how quick it is in V13 to complete the same task...

Media Picker V15

MediaPicker-V15Behaviour.mp4

Media Picker V13

MediaPicker-V13Behaviour.mp4

I appreciate this might not be easily doable! - but it is the first thing on our new V15 project that our V13 editors complained about, it made them sad. other option would be to change the tagline from the friendly CMS to the everso slightly annoying CMS!

Specifics

RTE Media Pickers

Single Media Pickers

Multiple Media Pickers

Steps to reproduce

Install Umbraco
Install Paul Seals Clean Starter Kit
Upload many media to a media folder deep within several other media folders
Pick a Media Item, then go to pick a different Media Item - notice it does not remember the folder
Pick a Media Item, then go to another page, and pick a Media Item - notice it does not remember the folder
In a Rich Text Editor, inside a Content Block insert a media item, move to a different paragraph and insert another, notice the folder is not remembered by the picker!

Expected result / actual result

I'd expect the behaviour of the earlier versions of Umbraco, where the Media Picker remembers the last folder that it picked from within the session across doc types and media picker types. I'm not saying it has to ALWAYS remember the last folder if it was intelligent to work out from editing patterns whether it would be useful for editors etc to pick from last folder, AI and that... or if it was just clear from the first dialog how to access last folder, that might be clearer and friendlier.

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This item has been added to our backlog AB#49052

[github-actions]

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[kjac]

Hi @marcemarc,

Thanks for reporting this 💪 I agree, this should be fixed. I'll get in touch with the team to see if they can figure out the best approach here.