fix: resolve comments

electron/electron-env.d.ts

@@ -77,7 +77,13 @@ interface Window {
 			videoData: ArrayBuffer,
 			fileName: string,
 			exportFolder?: string,
-		) => Promise<{ success: boolean; path?: string; message?: string; canceled?: boolean }>;
+		) => Promise<{
+			success: boolean;
+			path?: string;
+			message?: string;
+			canceled?: boolean;
+			error?: string;
+		}>;
 		openVideoFilePicker: () => Promise<{ success: boolean; path?: string; canceled?: boolean }>;
 		setCurrentVideoPath: (path: string) => Promise<{ success: boolean }>;
 		setCurrentRecordingSession: (

electron/ipc/handlers.ts

@@ -842,8 +842,14 @@ export function registerIpcHandlers(
 						if (stats.isDirectory()) {
 							defaultDir = exportFolder;
 						}
-					} catch {
-						// Folder was moved or deleted since the last export; keep Downloads.
+					} catch (err) {
+						// Stat can fail because the folder was moved/deleted (expected) or
+						// because of a permission error (worth surfacing). Either way we
+						// fall back to Downloads, but log so debugging isn't blind.
+						console.warn(
+							`Could not access remembered export folder "${exportFolder}", falling back to Downloads:`,
+							err,
+						);
 					}
 				}
 

src/components/video-editor/VideoEditor.tsx

@@ -31,7 +31,12 @@ import {
 import { computeFrameStepTime } from "@/lib/frameStep";
 import type { ProjectMedia } from "@/lib/recordingSession";
 import { matchesShortcut } from "@/lib/shortcuts";
-import { loadUserPreferences, parentDirectoryOf, saveUserPreferences } from "@/lib/userPreferences";
+import {
+	getExportFolder,
+	loadUserPreferences,
+	parentDirectoryOf,
+	saveUserPreferences,
+} from "@/lib/userPreferences";
 import { BackgroundLoadError } from "@/lib/wallpaper";
 import {
 	getAspectRatioValue,
@@ -1313,7 +1318,7 @@ export default function VideoEditor() {
 			const saveResult = await window.electronAPI.saveExportedVideo(
 				unsavedExport.arrayBuffer,
 				unsavedExport.fileName,
-				loadUserPreferences().exportFolder ?? undefined,
+				getExportFolder(),
 			);
 			if (saveResult.canceled) {
 				toast.info("Export canceled");
@@ -1418,7 +1423,7 @@ export default function VideoEditor() {
 						const saveResult = await window.electronAPI.saveExportedVideo(
 							arrayBuffer,
 							fileName,
-							loadUserPreferences().exportFolder ?? undefined,
+							getExportFolder(),
 						);
 
 						if (saveResult.canceled) {
@@ -1562,7 +1567,7 @@ export default function VideoEditor() {
 						const saveResult = await window.electronAPI.saveExportedVideo(
 							arrayBuffer,
 							fileName,
-							loadUserPreferences().exportFolder ?? undefined,
+							getExportFolder(),
 						);
 
 						if (saveResult.canceled) {

src/lib/userPreferences.ts

@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ export function parentDirectoryOf(filePath: string): string | null {
 	return filePath.slice(0, lastSep);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Returns the remembered export folder as `string | undefined`, suitable for
+ * passing directly to IPC handlers that treat absence as "use the default".
+ */
+export function getExportFolder(): string | undefined {
+	return loadUserPreferences().exportFolder ?? undefined;
+}
+
 /**
  * Persist user preferences to localStorage.
  * Only the explicitly provided fields are updated.