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Acrobat Save As function always defaults to system folder

Community Beginner ,
Jan 16, 2025 Jan 16, 2025

Hello all. Quite often I need to save PDF files opened from e-mail attachments in Outlook. Acrobat for some strange reason always shows me some default system folder (which is of course nonsense in this context). In other windows programs this dialog shows the last used save-as folder, which seems very logical to me and saves a lot of repeated work. Why is Acrobat not doing the same? Saving several files from Acrobat in this situation is a nightmare...

I have seen several older questions on a similar topic - I think there must have been some solution found in the last years...?

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Community Expert ,
Jan 22, 2025 Jan 22, 2025

As far as I can see, it's not possible to change this setting. You can, however, see where a file is saved by going to File - Properties - Description.

 

Another workaround might be to print to PDF rather than saving the file. Acrobat WILL remember the location of the last document that you printed to PDF, so this is great if you have tons of them to save to one location.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 23, 2025 Jan 23, 2025

Hi GeekyGirlRex, what printer to save a PDF are you using? I have PDFfactory and Microsoft print to PDF and both are creating the documents as images (i.e. larger and lower quality then the original). So for a routine saving of files this is actually not a very useful option.

Using version Acrobat Reader 2024.005.20320/64

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Jan 24, 2025 Jan 24, 2025
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I am just using the Adobe PDF printer. (Size and quality do not really matter for what I do.)

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