I tired of the continuous updates in Windows making my programs unusable. After an excursion to Linux Lite, I am now running Ubuntu on my Dell laptop because it was the supported distro. I'm not TERRIBLY stupid, I can program in C and I remember things like file permissions (user-group-everyone) from my SCO days. However, something I tried to do didn't have the effect I thought.

I was in a file save dialog box, and I wanted to save the file to the parent directory without changing the current working directory, so I TRIED prefixing the file name with "dot dot backslash" to see if it would work (something from the good old days of PS-DOS).

Well, you know what happened. It hid the file in the current directory.

Is there no way of referring to the parent directory without entering the full path in the dialog if I do not want to change the working directory?