Moving "My Digital Editions" folder

I have the same problem. Onedrive hijacked the install and now the My Digital Editions folder is unnecessarily wasting space in OneDrive. Do I have to reinstall and choose a different folder?

The following will work well if you don't actually care if the Digital Editions folder is taking up space in this part of your HD, but you simply don't want to SEE it every dang time you open your Documents folder!

In short, the folder is still there and accessible, but  not visible to you.

The Adobe Digital Editions App still opens find and finds my books after I did this:

4: Make the file/folder hidden 1

In Terminal, type chflags hidden and then drag a folder or file you want to hide into the Terminal window; you can still access those hidden folders and files by summoning the Go To Folder dialog (Command-Shift-G) and typing in their full paths. To unhide them, go back to Terminal and type chflags nohidden followed by the file or folder path.

Maybe make a note to yourself that you did this incase you need to remember where the heck it is in the future.

Background:

I had some trouble getting the symlink option to work but found this simple and quick solution (for mac)  via this article: https://www.macworld.com/article/2030765/os-x/8-ways-to-hide-files-and-folders-in-os-x.html

I just installed ADE on Win 10 and have many books on External drives. To use the library is to copy the books to my user profile, Digital something. I don't want those on my C: drive and will delete. I wonder of this is what maxed out my Apple MacBook Air.

Anyone reading this thread in the hope that Adobe will ever do anything about this problem must conclude that it will never happen. Adobe's clients are the book publishers NOT the end users (you and me). With the upcoming large scale migration to Windows 10 loss of eBooks saved in My Digital Editions is likely. So, what to do?

I did consider using Sysinternals Junction as has been suggested on here. However, reading up on this I found warnings about the possible risk of system damage if you are not totally confident in using the command line (I'm not). But there is an alternative. Link Shell Extension is a freeware utility which adds the tools you need to Windows Explorer context menu. There is an excellent article on How to Geek on how to do it here Complete Guide to Symbolic Links (symlinks) on Windows or Linux . I did find a slight problem however. On my edition of Windows (7, 64 bit) the context menu that appears produced by Link Shell Extension has different commands to those described in the documentation. There is no 'Hard link Clone'. I used the Junction command instead..

First of all, shut down My Digital Edtions completely and move the My Digital Editions storage folder to the location of your choice. Then to create a virtual "My Digital Editions" folder, click on the My Digital Editions folder in it's new location to highlight it then right click it and choose "Pick link source" from the context menu. Go back to the My Documents folder on C drive, click it to highlight it then right click it and choose "Drop as > Junction". This will create a virtual storage folder in the original position which redirects My Digital Editions to your chosen new location. The advantage of doing this this way is that if you make a mistake and create a link in the wrong place simply delete the new virtual folder and recreate it with no harm done.

I add my voice to this outstanding deficiency as I now own new Mac Pro which can only have one internal drive so have a number of externals dedicated to various media etc. so  I find it very frustrating not being able to select file storage drive within ADE software.

2015 and still no solution …

There doesn't even seem to be any way to submit a bug repport for Digital Editions: Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

I join the irritated customers....

I agree. Forcing people to use a specific directory is less than ideal. I'm using on my personal laptop. I don't keep any files locally. I store them all on my cloud storage. Cloud computing is gaining popularity, a company like Adobe, who just forced all of their Photoshop users to the Cloud Edition, should totally understand this. Kudos to the post using mklink.

Just popping in to add my voice to the thread.  I seriously can't believe that this simple little thing STILL hasn't been addressed by Adobe after all this time.

Here we are, five and a half years later, still waiting for ADE to do what so many users have asked for. And they wonder why people migrate to Kindle.