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Participant
June 23, 2013
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Change the directory of the digital editions library

  • June 23, 2013
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I want to change the standart directory "C:\Users\...\Documents\My Digital Editions" for the library to a custom one. Is it possible?

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Correct answer Jeffrey_A_Wright

Moving this discussion to the Adobe Digital Editions forum.

Jan it is not possible to customize the location of the My Digital Editions folder within Adobe Digital Editions.

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Inspiring
June 25, 2013

As Jeff says, ADE is too unhelpful to allow this.

If you are a little technical, you can do it using symbolic directory links.

  1. Move the "C:\Users\...\Documents\My Digital Editions" to wherever you want it, for example "d:\My Digital Editions"
  2. You might make a safe copy as well, just in case.
  3. Open a command prompt as administrator.  Type cmd in start menu, right click on cmd.exe and 'run as administrator'
  4. Run the command    mklink /d "C:\Users\...\Documents\My Digital Editions" "d:\My Digital Editions"
  5. Quit the command promt with exit
Participant
July 31, 2023

Does this still work? I might be doing something wrong, but just tried these steps and the folder is being recreated in the original location.

Participant
July 31, 2023


Forgot to say: I am trying the Windows version.

Jeffrey_A_Wright
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Community Manager
June 24, 2013

Moving this discussion to the Adobe Digital Editions forum.

Jan it is not possible to customize the location of the My Digital Editions folder within Adobe Digital Editions.