Not able to download any files to sub directory folders

[winnie]

Something must be broken in regards to the GTK file picker (and/or a related dependency).

This apparently happens with GNOME and Xfce, with Chromium and Google Chrome.

Chromium file dialog is not using the default file manager

Since doing a system upgrade that occurred earlier this weekend, 5/13/2022 when I ran “pacman -Syyu”, I noticed Chromium has a new/different file dialog that was not my normal/default dialog window that I was used to. At first I didn’t mind it as it looked like a normal file browsing GUI and so I tried to save a downloading file to a storage volume outside of the default download folder, Chromium would not save the file it would not start the download and nothing was downloading in the “download…