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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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gilliank96893885

New Participant

The online storage option works fine if you are using OneDrive or Dropbox as you can choose them as defaults. For those of us using googledrive we can not choose a default folder and everytime I save I have to do an extra 2 clicks of the mouse to get to my client folders within Drive.

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Brainiac

Good to hear my advice works. Thanks.

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Brainiac

I said NOT To uncheck that option.

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CIGrey

New Participant

I too had this problem but it was when saving files I had opened and edited from emails (this probably applies to others). Adobe Pro DC was saving the files to the C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INETCache\Content.Outlook\xxxxx folder (which you cannot see unless you search for "INET" from within that Windows folder). So the shortcut didn't work (and never will work). However, out of curiosity, I TICKED the "Show online storage" option in settings and now when I save a file I am offered a real save interface and this includes folders I have recently used (namely, in my case, my OneDrive folders).

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Brainiac

You do not choose a default folder. As such, it has been answered, even if we don't much care for the answer.

Personally, I'd put back the "show online" option and use the Recent Folder list, which is much quicker than navigating each time.

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sangrover

Adobe Employee

Hi vq,

The path where you are trying to save the PDF file is restricted system folder path and therefore we do not add it to the recent folder list.The length of the path is not associated with this problem. If we have path length greater than 94 even then the path will be visible in the recent folders list provided it's not a system folder.

And just out of curiosity, could you please help me in understanding your use case as to why you have to save your PDF file in a system folder? Any information will be helpful.

Regards,

Sandeep

vq71_2

New Participant

Hi sangrover,

This path is the default location Zotero (a popular research tool) saves PDFs and other files related to its library to. I'm using the stand-alone version, but have a high level of confidence that the browser version stores them in the same place. And also I don't think I have changed any defaults in Zotero. After highlighting text or adding comments, I usually wish to save the PDF and if it's the first time I do it (for this document in this Adobe Reader session) and the new save dialog is enabled, I have to select the full path manually.

And even if the recent folders feature worked with AppData, the extra click problem of the new dialog would remain for my use case. So, now I have disabled it, thanks to the accepted answer. And this is the 3rd tweak I will have to apply to Adobe Reader after every installation (it is irrelevant here, but if you are curious, the first 2 were: the annoying "Make Hand tool read articles" option that is on by default and some fix to signature field detection, don't quite remember what it was for).

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Brainiac

To streamline that, I'd either put a shortcut in the default location, or have that long directory name ready to paste into the save dialog.

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sangrover

Adobe Employee

Hi vq,

Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. While trying to reproduce the issue internally, we were able to save files which have a path length of more than 94 characters and it was also getting reflected on the recent folders. Kindly help us in identifying the problem better by providing the following details:

1. Are you using Reader or Acrobat? Kindly specify the product version as well. To do so, Go to Help --> About Acrobat Reader/Pro DC.

2. When you were trying with a long file path, were you actually able to save the file? Can you please share the absolute file path.

Regards,

Sandeep Grover

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CVHManchester

Inspiring

The initial problem has not been answered, no matter what the dialog says. I have to load ca 15 files/hour from a website, edit them and save them all in the same folder on my computer. DC defaults every time to save in the temporary download folder. A real everyday pain - an absolutely unnecessary "improvement".

How do I choose a default folder rather than go through a convoluted menu of choices to change the save folder, every time, all day, every day?

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Anonymous

I have the same problem. I have unchecked the "show online storage" box but I still do not get an option to save to recent folder. no matter what I do every document I try to save goes to a default folder that is drilled down deep and I can not change the default location or figure out how to get it to prompt me to save in a recent folder. I had no problems with this function in the previous version. Here is the location it defaults to:

C:\Users\jgracey\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.Outlook\PN6CVBDY

vq71_2

New Participant

I don’t understand why there is no option to plainly override the file in the My Computer tab of this dialog. What’s more, Choose a Different Folder… defaults to the documents folder (not the folder where the file is located), which feels counter-intuitive. And finally, as far as I know, there is already another dialog to save files to the cloud, why clutter this one at all?

MohitBansal12068238

New Participant

Hi vq,

The folder where is the file is located is the topmost location in the recent folders list. That is the reason why the "Choose a different folder..." default to documents folder and the one where the file is located. I don't think there is any other dialog to save files to the cloud.

Thanks!

vq71_2

New Participant

Hi M.Bansal,

Thank you for the reply.

1. The problem is it's not always true. When the file path is long, the recent folder is not there (tried with a path that is 94 characters long using the latest Windows version).

2. Unfortunately, to override a file this new dialog requires one click more than the old one.

MohitBansal12068238

New Participant

Hi rickhino,

There is a preference in the Preferences dialog box of Acrobat/Reader that brings back your default Save dialog box. Press [Ctrl/Cmd]+K, Select "General" on the left rail. On the right you'll see a checkbox saying "Show online storage while saving files". Check that off. You'll get your default Save dialog box. Is that what you wanted? Or there is something else too?

Thanks!