Inspiring

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Default Save Location in DC

Forum|Forum|10 years ago
May 18, 2015
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I really like the new DC interface, but whoever came up with the save file dialog box and whoever approved it need to be taken to the woodshed. I understand you're trying to promote the cloud but making your customers work harder for your convenience isn't a business model. Please provide a way to change the default save location. Please don't be lazy and tell me to put a shortcut in the My Documents folder. An hour or so of programming on your part would save your customers countless extra clicks. You're a good company. A great company would think of their customers first. Be great!

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Correct answer ds82

This fixed my problem. I've been annoyed with this for ages, and finally decided to search the internet for a solution. Your works perfectly, and now my work flow is no longer annoying and terrible.

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BossBabe823

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Thank you! This makes my life so much easier at work. 🙂

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James21799886lu7c

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Need to be able to upvote this comment 1000x. Default behavior for most programs is to go to the location you last saved the file to. This "save to the cloud" while it may be a nice feature for some folks, is nothing but an annoyance to work around for MY business on MY network. It is not in my scope of interest or needs to save MY stuff to YOUR servers.

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James21799886lu7c

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And as a matter of fact, I have to save files hundreds of times per day to a location on my company LAN. It sucks that my system no longer simply remembers where it last was and goes to my local Documents location by default now. Terrible, terrible decision for the majority of your business customers.

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Manisha37059825hrnj

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Where is the Save As/Save fxn gone?? I keep all my files in specifc folders on my personal drives for easy access. Now when a file automatically saves to the cloud without asking where to save, it is such a hassle to go to the cloud to retrieve and save back into my folders. Please fix this feature!!

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TomWadkins

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Answer by MohitBansal was spot on - Thanks for this as it was really iritating that I had to click off of this everytime I did a Save As which was 30 to 40 times per day.

NRtruck

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Are you looking to file mainly to folder X, but every time you click save Adobe opens a folder somewhere out there in a land far, far, away?

Try going to Edit>Preferences>Security(Enhanced)>Add File/Folder Path>Insert your preferred location.

Does this work for you?

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Nadirah235167354snd

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I open/save hundreds of pdf files every week and until yesterday when I clicked "save as" it would point back to the last location I saved a file (it's been this way for years now). Then all of a sudden when I go to save my pdf it is set to save in a Temp folder and I have to navigate back to where I want them stored. I have done what you stated above, add folder path (didn't work). I have unchecked "automatically save document changes to temp file every xxx minutes" (didn't work). I got a call from a co-worked today around noon stating she is now having the same issue (earlier today it wasn't doing that).

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James21799886lu7c

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Yes, this is extremely irritating. When something works well and your customer base is used to it, it is not an improvement to add MORE clicks and browsing to what used to be a simple process that is the same across all Windows apps. This decision is not an improvement for your customers.

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21886249kajf

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It's obviously a design issue if I was confounded enough about it to find my way here, on this unchanged attribute 6 years later. Why cant you default away from that box being checked? This would be pretty much in line with the rest of the universe...

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Lori5CD8

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When I unchecked the box for "Show online storage when saving files", that is when this problem w/ not opening to the last folder saved to when I "save as". The reason I had to uncheck this box to begin with was due to the pop up save box not showing anything & was unable to save any Adobe/PDF files at all. I am able to save them now, however, I am constantly having to go searching for the folder I need to save my pdf's to. As I am constantly doing this as part of my job (sometimes 100's a day) this is VERY inconvenient & slows down my work progress. This needs to be changed back to how it was before the last update. There has to be a way to get this fixed. I can't even find this folder when I need to attach a file. It took me 15+mins to track it down. I do NOT have that kind of time & it also seems that everyones files are going into this folder, so I do not know what is mine or someone elses. I can't delete anything because it may not be my file. This is bad...very bad!

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Blake5DF7

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My problem is I use Word and then create PDF from Word and instead of saving to the same location as the word doc, it always defaults to the last location used, then when I go to find the PDF its not in the same location as the WORD doc

How do I cange default save location so it will be the same as the WORD source doc ?

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Anonymous

The registry value that controls this function is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\2017\AVGeneral\bToggleCustomOpenExperience

(Obviously replace the version with the version you are using)

Change the DWORD from 0 to 1

This can be used to push this fix out to multiple machines.

rickhinoAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks www,

Do you happen to know how to fix the default for Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S? I still use it all the time and it NEVER remembers my last save location.

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Anonymous

The registry value that controls this function is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\2017\AVGeneral\bToggleCustomOpenExperience

(Obviously replace the version with the version you are using)

Change the DWORD from 0 to 1

This can be used to push this fix out to multiple machines.

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Stephen5CCF

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If you want to save in a certain location in DC in Windows 10, do the following:

Go to the magnifying glass (Search) and type printers.

Open up the printers and scanners folder.

Click on the Adobe PDF and choose Manage.

Choose Printer Preferences

Once open Modify the Adobe PDF Output Folder by hitting browse and saving where you want to.

rickhinoAuthor

Inspiring

This post is almost five years old and every time I update Adobe programs I have to reset this preference. What an annoyance. You obviously don't care enough about your customers to play nice.

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