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Moving "My Digital Editions" folder

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August 7, 2007
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I am trying to move the "My Digital Editions" folder from the default location under "My Documents". When I do so, I have to add my ebooks back to the library (which is OK), but Digital Editions also then adds a "My Digital Editions" folder with a manifest.xml file back under "My Documents".

Is there anyway to change the default location of this "My Digital Editions" folder?

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Feaniel

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I am basically deleting this software for this really annoyoing reason. I have a Mac, so I doubt any of the trick here will work.

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Frustrated in AZ

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When you ask for help, it helps us to know what platform you're running,

what level your OS is at and a bunch of other things. Don't blame the

messenger for your oversights.

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Feaniel

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I didn't looked only here of course. And I was looking for mac in my query. But see, I found some other free reader and as usefull of ADE, where I can have a minimum of control over it. And I didn't ask for help. I wrote a message here because I wanted to let them know there were another users unhappy because of the lack of this feature. Even though I doubt they ever change it, knowing the age of this thread, I thought it was still important for me to let this feedback.

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Anders Törnkvist

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If your goal is to have the contents in My Digital Editions stored in another directory, I have a temporary solution.

1. Close Adobe Digital Editions, if the program is open.

2. Move My Digital Editions to the new location in Explorer, for example by selecting the directory, pressing Ctrl+X, opening the new location and pressing Ctrl+V. I used Books\My Digital Editions as my new directory. It is, however, okay to rename My Digital Editions to whatever you would like.

3. Open cmd by (Windows Vista/7) typing "cmd" in the start menu, right-clicking on the program cmd.exe and selecting "Run as administrator". If you have Windows XP, you can open cmd by holding the Windows key and pressing R (Run), entering "cmd" and then selecting "OK".

4. Go to My documents by entering the following command:

cd "%userprofile%\Documents"

5. Make a link in My documents to the new directory, by entering the following command. Don't forget to change the second path to your new directory. (It should be absolute or relative to My documents.

mklink /D "My Digital Editions" "Books\My Digital Editions"

6. Hide the link by entering the following command:

attrib "My Digital Editions" /L +S +H

Good luck!

Anders Törnkvist

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rb007

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Thank you Anders. This provided me a good solution.

+1 in adding my name to the list of supporters for Adobe to make this seemingly simple usability enhancement.

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MadMax8699

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Guys,

Not sure if this is what you want but works for me.

My setup is:

C:\ - This is for Windows 7 (64bit) and programs.

D:\ - Optical Dirve

E:\My Documents - This is for my user files

F:\My Documents - This is a backup of the E drive files

Suggest you do backups before proceeding.

My eBooks downloads are located at E:\My Documents\My Digital Editions. Being in this location it's easy to have a Robocopy script which simply copies from E to F drive.

Anyhow, as you have noticed, the default location is C:\Users\{NAME]\My Documents for the My Digital Editions.

Here's how I fixed it for me.

In Windows Explorer, go to Libraries --> Documents --> My Documents.

Right click on this and choose Properties.

Click on Location tab.

You will notice the entry currently reads "C:\Users\[NAME]\My Documents"

Click on the Move button.

Navigate to your document location which in my case is E:\My Documents

Click ok.

At this point you will get a warning asking if you want to copy files from the old location to the new location (hence the warning above about backing up). Basically any folder and files in the old location (C Drive) will go to the new location (in my case E drive) so if you already have folders or files in the destination drive which are different, you may lose them when you say "Yes". Suggest you manually check and rename any folders that are similarly named in the destination so they aren't overwritten.

When you have finished, your library should show you your documents in the library.

Install Adobe Digital Editions.

In my case, since I had ePub files etc in E:\My Documents\My Digital Editions, when ADE started up, all my books were showing.

Any future purchases where I click on the download link and choose "Open with Adobe Digital Editions" get put in this directory and appear on my bookshelf.

Hope that helps guys. Not sure what those that have corporate accounts can do, but perhaps that might help.

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Anonymous

Thanks MadMax. That helps to move the entire "My Documents" directory to another drive. But it doesn't solve the problem of determining where the "My Digital Editions" directory will go in relation to "My Documents".

The purpose of having a "My Documents" folder in Windows is to have a single location to store user documents, NOT to store application metadata. As someone earlier noted, when backing up personal documents, you don't want to include application support files.

As for myself, I can't stand the "My xxx" name automatically given to personal folders, whether by Windows, Adobe, or other default software installations. I want to organize personal files and documents in a way that makes sense to me and using names less juvenile sounding. I would prefer to have a single "digital book" directory under "My Documents" where I could locate the default location for the Adobe Digital Editions, Calibre, Kindle, and other libraries.

In Windows 7, for example (where I've already moved my default location from C:\ to D:\):

CHANGE DEFAULT FROM:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

D:\Users\Mostovic\Documents\My Digital Editions\

D:\Users\Mostovic\Documents\Kindle Content\

D:\Users\Mostovic\Documents\Calibre\

D:\Users\Mostovic\Documents\My This\

D:\Users\Mostovic\Documents\My That\

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

TO:

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D:\Users\Mostovic\Documents\eBookLibraries\Adobe\

D:\Users\Mostovic\Documents\eBookLibraries\Kindle\

D:\Users\Mostovic\Documents\eBookLibraries\Calibre\

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I can do this with Kindle & Calibre. Not so with Adobe, where one "dumb" size is supposed to fit all.

Book lovers tend also to love their autonomy. Lacking this essential functionality, Adobe essentially insults the Adobe Digital Editions customer base. And "insult" is the appropriate word here since these forums document the fact that customers have been asking for this functionality for years without adequate response.

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angelo_muratore

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You are right, I am using Digital Edition since few weeks.

I also seen difficulties in reading a book, writing notes in a bookmark on one computer. Then change the computer and ... beeing able to find the same notes.

It's very hard.

Unfortunately I haven't my personal ultra-portable computer, there are some computers, shared with all the family members, in the different places of the house.

You are right, having the possibility to move the "My Digital Editions" folder in a pen drive or in an external hard driver would greatly simplify ... having always my notes with me.

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angelo_muratore

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Please, have a look of what is written in the FAQ:

"How do I enable content portability?

The first time you run Digital Editions, you are prompted to authorize the application by entering an Adobe ID. If you don't have an Adobe ID, you are provided with a link to get one. Then, when you purchase an item online or borrow one from a library with Digital Editions, the item is automatically "tied" to your Adobe ID, rather than your computer. This way, you are free to move your items to up to six computers and six devices that have been authorized with Digital Editions."

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LJBS1267

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@ Angelo – thanks for that, but sharing across devices is not the problem (for me, at least). For me, it’s the fact that we are not ‘allowed’ to have the folder anywhere other than in ‘My Documents’.

As far as I know, that one still hasn’t been resolved.

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Anonymous

+1

motormiller135

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I second the motion.............

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janke1353

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Wow, this is just plain dumb. I'm having the same problem with needlessly backing up files that don't need to be backed up. It's a waste of space and time.

There are several good reasons to allow the user the choice of where to store the content. I was amazed to find out that there is no option here.

Please fix this.

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richj00000

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+1 on this

Hey Adobe - quit buying new companies and support the software you have. Just a thought.

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elonex-ereader-user

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Just bought my first ereader Elonex 500, not the most sophisticated device .. no wifi...but it has colour display the reason I bought it preference to any other device. I also have the same complaint against Adobe. I tried the sysinternal fix suggested by a previous poster. Unfortunately I could nt get it to work, probably I got the syntax wrong.

However it seems I can save my books where ever I want to on my PC - in my case an external hd, so far I only see the png files and and annotations getting saved to Adobes default folder. This meets my needs since my only cornern is hard disc space. I cant see why this will impact on my use of the ereader itself.

I cant test this assumption but I cant see why those using corporate drives would not also be able to save their books to separate locations, with pngs and annotations staying on their corp drive.

I simply download to the location of my choice and then open with Adobe no complex manipulation involved.

This does not appear to interfere with the transfer of books/images/annotations to my ereader, other devices may not be so 'kind'.

Im happy to answer any questions if I can.

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KLMyers

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Mark me as another voice strongly protesting the rigid location of this folder. Not even iTunes is that bad. Major headache for backups, and a bad idea in general.

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RichardP86

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Same problem. Adobe please resolve. Useless for Peeps on corporate computers.

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