I would like to be able to have Adobe Media Encoder put the temporary files during encoding in a specific directory, and the final result in another. (In my case I render into my Google Drive folder, but it keeps syncing the temp files too with no way to disable that).
Perhaps one way it could be implemented that others might find useful is to add a "local directory" option to the preset publish tab. There's already one for "Adobe Creative Cloud" that even references a local folder, so perhaps you could add an option that lets you choose an arbitrary location?
I have to imagine this ability would be useful in general, such as for people who may want to back up a copy to NAS drives or something. Perhaps you could even allow a list of directories to which copies of the file will be sent.