How to move profile to new location

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June 3, 2011
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Hello all,

I use Robohelp 9 as a domain user with a roaming profile. Unfortunately the profile size is limited and can't be changed in size (IT limitation).

Is it possible to move the profile (C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Adobe\...) to a deticated other location (outside the roaming profile)?

Many thanks in advance & regards,

help.less

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Peter Grainge

Community Expert

Check with your IT people but my understanding is that the profile will only be seriously inflated if you keep My RoboHelp Projects in the default location AND use it to store your projects, otherwise it shouldn't contain too much.

You can store your projects anywhere on your C drive (or other local partition) so that fixes that.

RoboHelp also keeps copies of the sample projects in My RoboHelp Projects but you can move those too. RoboHelp of course will always look there for them so you will just have to remember you moved them.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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help_lessAuthor

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Many thanks for you fast reply!

Adobe takes ~48MB, the (not changable) limit of the profile is 30MB :-(

(Robohelp Skin Gallery is already larger than 30MB...)

My RH projects itself are stored on a network drive already, RH samples are also already moved...

Any other idea?

Thanks again & regards,

help.less

Captiv8r

Legend

Are you saying I should not use network drives storing and working on my RH projects? We are working on network drives only to avoid any security risks by storing confidential data on local discs. In my opinion it is a serios issue (bug) if RH can't deal with network drives! :-((

In my (standard) RH instrallation the skin gallery is located in the profile space. What would happen if i remove or move the skin gallery to a different location?

Thanks again, regards & have a nice weekend,

help.less

Hi there

help.less wrote:
...In my opinion it is a serios issue (bug) if RH can't deal with network drives! :-((...

If you poked around on the web a bit, you would likely find the same issue occurs with other applications. I know Adobe Captivate is another application that doesn't deal with network drives well. I might imagine *ANY* movie editing software would as well. I've also seen the same advice WRT Microsoft PowerPoint. And when I was in the corporate support world, Microsoft Access databases were forbidden from network usage by our LAN admin folks because of all the issues they caused. We also saw issues with Microsoft Word that way.

The underlying cause is the network itself. When you try mixing an application that has lots of activity between the application and its data, problems ensue. Particularly with busy busy busy network servers. The servers are like an extremely busy intersection.

Cheers... Rick