Change default location for .storyline templates

Hi Allan and welcome to Heroes! 

There isn't a way to change the default path, but you will want to save all your Storyline files to a local drive and Storyline should be a local install.  But when choosing to save the .storytemplate or .story files, you can choose to save somewhere other than the default location. Also, if you'd like to see future support for changing the default you'll want to share your thoughts in the form of a feature request as well. 

Thanks so much, Ashley. This was very helpful. One quick follow-up, if I may... is the 'default' location for ' \My Articulate Projects\Storyline Templates' selected during the Storyline installation? My IT department completed the installation for me, so that was not something I had an opportunity to select when the software was installed. I almost never complete work on the network and would have preferred the default location for ' \My Articulate Projects\Storyline Templates' to be on my hard drive (just like 'My Documents', 'My Pictures', etc.) but that's not where Articulate is pointing to. Is this something that could be changed by uninstalling and reinstalling?

Hi Allan,

The directory is the same, but the drive is specified when installing the software. If it's pointing to a network drive, I'd be concerned about the installation drive of the software itself. 

Now, if your user profile is on the network drive or tied to that, your IT team should be able to change this.

If not, you may want to reinstall on the C: drive, so that the folder is created under your Windows user profile and it should point to your local hard drive.

Let us know how it goes!

What I hear you saying is that it's not possible to move the My Articulate Projects folder out of My Documents or change the location of this folder during installation, is that correct?

We've had the same problem and it's been a big hassle for us.  I imagine other users in large corporations have similar problems because their My Documents folder is located on a network drive with limited space. I will submit it as a feature request.  I'll note that Captivate has the ability to change the default publishing and cache locations, but their template files are also stuck in My Documents and cannot be moved.

Hi

I have hit this really limiting factor also.

I have multiple designer/builders creating content.

They all have Storyline locally but i need them to be able to share a location with our templates in so they all build in a consistent fashion

I will raise the feature request

Hi Mick,

You can submit feature requests here and we recommend working as described here when needing to collaborate on files. 

Has this been moved on?  I'm running into an issue with this myself.  I'd love to be able to change this without a re-install.

Hi Susan and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

Our recommendations are still the same as far as working locally on your software and project files.

Did you install in a different location and that's why a re-install is needed? This thread is a bit dated and this is not a question/request I see very often.

The company I work for loads the software. They have set the default to save to my shared space on the server for saving files. The problem is, they give us very little space. I wanted to move this so I didn't have to have them re-install it.

Ah, thanks Susan.

Sounds like you may want to work internally with your team to understand how to best handle, but we do not support or recommend working on a server.

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We have also found it frustrating that we have to remember each time we save to change the save location (sometimes forgetting, creating issues later on).
I would like to see a setting added to 'File'>'Storyline Options' for 'Default save folder', that can be changed whenever it is operationally necessary. 

Hi there, Steven. Thanks for describing what you need!  I'm going to create a feature request to share this idea with my team.

In the meantime, Storyline should save new files to the last location that was used in the Save As window.  Are you seeing your file path revert to something else unpredictable?

Hi, I would also support this (being able to choose local default folder.

We use OneDrive a lot, so I work with the local file, abnd when I am finished it is synched with the cloud. This way, I can collaborate with colleagues and I automatically have a backup, whioch is a very comforting thought.

But obv. this OneDrive is not the default folder...

Thanks, Felix.

I've submitted a feature request on your behalf as well.

Hi Leslie,

Curious to know where you guys are with the feature request you made.

I am in a similar situation in that my Documents folder is "hosted" or "synced" with OneDrive. So every time I go to access my templates, they all have to download from OneDrive (my company has created this default). I would love to be able to create a local folder for my templates.

Thanks!

Hi Stephanie,

I do not have an update to provide.

I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.

Thanks for sharing your need and use-case as well. I'll add this feature request for you as well.

Any update on the request to set the default build location folder? I've run into a known issue with file saving when Carbon Black is used. Articulate Support recommended putting the build folder on the Carbon Black whitelist. It would be nice if I could define where that folder will be, and then set it up as the default Storyline build folder. 

Hello Peggy!

Thanks for checking back! I don't have an update for the request to set a default location for Storyline templates. If there is an update, I'll report back to this discussion.