Adobe Acrobat no option to select install path?!

Report · Apr 26, 2025

Ill set the scene.

I've recently bought a second M.2 drive for my PC. Last night i wanted to migrate photoshop and lightroom and acrobat to my new SSD.

So i follow the logical steps. First i make a folder on my new SSD - E:\Adobe. I direct Creative cloud to this folder. Next step okay i want to migrate my programs, ill click the 3 dots next to the apps. I'm expecting to see a properties option, I'm expecting to see an option to go directly to the install path, Im expecting to see a way that i can repath my photoshop so creative cloud knows where it is. Nothing but a bunch of useless links that take me to web pages. Get mobile app, Open in browser. Seriously? On what planet is any of this stuff helpful to someone who actually wants to use the app?

So naturally after realising theres no way to direct creative cloud to my apps i assume it will pick them up if i manually move them to my new folder. So i move all my apps to my new E drive. Creative cloud is pathed now to this folder. I expect to be able to click update or verify files and i expect creative cloud to look into the folder and see that yes my apps are present and for it to automatically repath. What does it do? It tells me theyre not installed. So naturally i click install, hoping it will realise theyre already there. Now instead of noticing okay heres a perfectly good version of photoshop with exactly the correct path that im looking for and all the files are already there, (Like many other pieces of software or games) instead, it decides to start from scratch. Wiping all my actions workspaces and settings. Now thankfully i have backups of all these as im a retoucher and occasionally need to go into a studio and work on their macs so i keep a copy of all my settings and presets.

Finally it reinstalls all my apps, wiping all my data and i import my presets. Great.

Now this morning I notice id rather have acrobat on this drive too. It uses up space and my C drive is only 250GB so i need to keep apps off of it where i can. So this time i dont bother with trying to migrate. I uninstall it and assume if i reinstall it. Like every single application on windows that it would let me decide WHERE i want it to be installed. Hilarious that i assumed this. Because why would anyone want to decide where apps are installed on their computer. Put it in my boot folder, put it anywhere you like adobe. Maybe you should install it into my photos. Go crazy.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat

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I appreciate im not a software developer. But seriously isn't this a bare minimum feature?

Report · Apr 26, 2025

A có?

Report · Apr 26, 2025

Mi nefime.

Ill set the scene.

I've recently bought a second M.2 drive for my PC. Last night i wanted to migrate photoshop and lightroom and acrobat to my new SSD.

So i follow the logical steps. First i make a folder on my new SSD - E:\Adobe. I direct Creative cloud to this folder. Next step okay i want to migrate my programs, ill click the 3 dots next to the apps. I'm expecting to see a properties option, I'm expecting to see an option to go directly to the install path, Im expecting to see a way that i can repath my photoshop so creative cloud knows where it is. Nothing but a bunch of useless links that take me to web pages. Get mobile app, Open in browser. Seriously? On what planet is any of this stuff helpful to someone who actually wants to use the app?

So naturally after realising theres no way to direct creative cloud to my apps i assume it will pick them up if i manually move them to my new folder. So i move all my apps to my new E drive. Creative cloud is pathed now to this folder. I expect to be able to click update or verify files and i expect creative cloud to look into the folder and see that yes my apps are present and for it to automatically repath. What does it do? It tells me theyre not installed. So naturally i click install, hoping it will realise theyre already there. Now instead of noticing okay heres a perfectly good version of photoshop with exactly the correct path that im looking for and all the files are already there, (Like many other pieces of software or games) instead, it decides to start from scratch. Wiping all my actions workspaces and settings. Now thankfully i have backups of all these as im a retoucher and occasionally need to go into a studio and work on their macs so i keep a copy of all my settings and presets.

Finally it reinstalls all my apps, wiping all my data and i import my presets. Great.

Now this morning I notice id rather have acrobat on this drive too. It uses up space and my C drive is only 250GB so i need to keep apps off of it where i can. So this time i dont bother with trying to migrate. I uninstall it and assume if i reinstall it. Like every single application on windows that it would let me decide WHERE i want it to be installed. Hilarious that i assumed this. Because why would anyone want to decide where apps are installed on their computer. Put it in my boot folder, put it anywhere you like adobe. Maybe you should install it into my photos. Go crazy.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat

. . .

I appreciate im not a software developer. But seriously isn't this a bare minimum feature?

By @George_2001

Report · Apr 26, 2025

Mi vůbec nefime co se nás ptáš ty kjávo.

Report · Apr 29, 2025

Hello George!

I hope you are doing well, and thanks for sharing detailed information.

Adobe Acrobat's installer does not provide an option to choose a custom installation directory during setup. By default, Acrobat installs to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat DC. This behaviour is consistent across both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Acrobat. The 64-bit unified installer, in particular, enforces this default path to streamline deployment and management.

If you're installing Acrobat as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, you can change the default installation location for Creative Cloud apps: How to change the install location of your Creative Cloud apps

If you want, you can raise a feature request to the product team using the Adobe Wish form.

I hope this helps, and let us know if you need any further assistance.

Thanks,

Anand Sri.