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Woodmonger
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August 29, 2022
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Change default drive that Premiere Elements uses for all its files

  • August 29, 2022
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I'm using Premiere Elements ver 18 on Windows 11. It by default installed an "Adobe" folder within my C drive Documents folder and stores everything within subfolders at this location; Video Previews PRV files, Auto-Save files, prel project files, etc. These end up taking a significant amount of space (over 37GB) on my C: drive. While I can live with this if need be, I would prefer that all these files were stored on my D drive (which is also a solid state drive). Is there some easy way to tell Premiere Elements to use the D drive and I can just move all my current Adobe folder contents over to that drive? Thanks.

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Ann Bens
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Ann BensCommunity Expert
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August 29, 2022

Edit > Preferences > Scratch Disks.

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    WoodmongerAuthor
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    August 29, 2022

    Thanks. I was hoping it would be as simple as that. I noticed that all these "ScratchDisks" were pointing to the same folder (Adobe\Premier Elements\18.0\ in my case), so I assume the program takes care of sorting the various file types into their correct subfolders automatically, rather than to having to list each subfolder individually in the ScratchDisk path (i.e \Adobe Premiere Elements Video Previews, \Adobe Premiere Elements Auto-Save, etc.).

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    WoodmongerAuthor
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    August 29, 2022

    So in my case, I should set each one to D:\Adobe\Premier Elements\18.0\ ?  (Currently each one is set to C:\users\Woodmonger\Documents\Adobe\Premiere Elements\18.0\)


    Ok. I just copied all my data from my old Premiere Elements folder to my D drive and changed all the ScratchDisk locations to the D drive as per my above post. After closing the program, I also deleted the Premiere Elements folder on my C drive. When restarting the program, it just made a new Premiere Elements\18.0\ folder on the C drive. I guess it needs to have this folder in which it places the file 'My new video project.prel' as well as an empty Layouts subfolder. So far, so good. One remaining problem.

    Once I save a project to my D:\Adobe\Premiere Elements\18.0\ location, then the program will default to the new location for future saves during that session. However, if I close and re-open the program, it reverts back to defaulting to the original C drive location for saves. Is there a way to make it permanently default to my D drive location for all project saves?

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