diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 79e12ac6..cb9e935b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
 * Update Beautiful Soup to 4.3.2 (r353)
 * Update jsonrpclib library r20 to (b59217c)
 * Change cachecontrol library to ensure cache file exists before attempting delete
+* Fix saving root dirs
 
 [develop changelog]
 * Update Requests library 2.7.0 (ab1f493) to 2.7.0 (8b5e457)
diff --git a/gui/slick/js/rootDirs.js b/gui/slick/js/rootDirs.js
index f2b461f5..b4826dbe 100644
--- a/gui/slick/js/rootDirs.js
+++ b/gui/slick/js/rootDirs.js
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
         if (is_default)
             setDefault($('#rootDirs option').attr('id'));
 
-        $.get(sbRoot+'/config/general/saveRootDirs', { rootDirString: $('#rootDirText').val() });
         refreshRootDirs();
+        $.get(sbRoot+'/config/general/saveRootDirs', { rootDirString: $('#rootDirText').val() });
     }
 
     function editRootDir(path) {