PSE 2018 Orgainzer creates unwanted Adobe folder in My Documents

Report · Oct 27, 2017

Every time I open the PSE 2018 Organizer, it creates a folder in My Documents named Adobe. This new folder has a sub-folder in it named Elements Organizer, which then has a further sub-folder named 16.0.

If I delete the Adobe folder and its sub-folders, then they are re-created the next time I open Organizer.

How can I prevent this Adobe folder being created in My Documents?

Many thanks if you can help me with this frustrating problem.

Report · Oct 27, 2017

phillipf32575968 wrote
Every time I open the PSE 2018 Organizer, it creates a folder in My Documents named Adobe. This new folder has a sub-folder in it named Elements Organizer, which then has a further sub-folder named 16.0.
If I delete the Adobe folder and its sub-folders, then they are re-created the next time I open Organizer.
How can I prevent this Adobe folder being created in My Documents?
Many thanks if you can help me with this frustrating problem.

Did you check the size of those folders?

What's the point of deleting them if they are necessary?

Report · Oct 27, 2017

The folders are zero bytes and there are no files in them. They do not appear to serve any purpose.

All of my PSE 2018 files are all stored elsewhere on my hard disk.

Report · Oct 27, 2017

phillipf32575968 wrote
The folders are zero bytes and there are no files in them. They do not appear to serve any purpose.
All of my PSE 2018 files are all stored elsewhere on my hard disk.

So, what is the matter? How can you know the don't serve any purpose? You can be sure that if they are re-created if you delete them that's because they are necessary. What's so 'frustrating' to see tiny-sized folders in a place you don't use for your own documents?

Report · Oct 27, 2017

I use the My Documents folder for documents. I store the PSE 2018 files in My Pictures. I have owned every version of PSE since version 11, and have not had this issue before.

Report · Oct 27, 2017

phillipf32575968 wrote
I use the My Documents folder for documents. I store the PSE 2018 files in My Pictures. I have owned every version of PSE since version 11, and have not had this issue before.

I have never considered 'My documents' as my own private ground forbidden to anybody else and I have always seen a lot of other softwares using it like Adobe.