Hi, Since having Articulate installed my default publishing folder has always been to my local drive C:/Users/Tanya/Documents/My Articulate Projects. Over the weekend, we've had an IT policy rolled out so that anything saved to My Documents automatically saves to a network drive rather than a local drive. This has changed my default publishing folder location to save to the network drive...is there any way that I can change this default location back to my C:/? I know that I can manually change the location, but it would be great if I could have this location permanently set so that I know I am avoiding any potential publishing issues in the future. Can anybody assist with this? Cheers, Tanya

Hello, I work for a law firm and we have folder redirection in place which puts the My Documents folder in a network location. This causes all kinds of problems with Articulate software. We really need a way to change the default save location. It's problematic having to do it manually at every save. Ben

Ben is entirely correct. We should be able to save to whatever default drive/folder we choose in preferences like every other program on the market. It is a pain to have to reset to my desired 'save to' folder every time that I publish a Presenter 13 file. I understand that you do not want them to go to network or flash drive locations, but there are lots of other locations/drives that function perfectly well other than C:/My Articulate Projects

I've got the same issue here "C:\users\<my name>\Documents\MyArticulateProjects" doesn't really exist. Ours are redirected to a network location. it seems to me in reading through this thread that Articulate doesn't truly understand WHY people are making this request. 1. We understand, your recommendation is to work off of a local directory. We don't always like it, but we get it. 2. We need YOU to understand that we don't have the option of saving to our local "my documents" folder...because it has been, at the Operating System level by our network administrators, redirected so that it lives on the network. 3. Articulate forces us to use a predetermined default location that now points to a location that, if we have a problem with a file, you will say its because it is in an unsupported network location...(back to #1) SO.... 4. We need an option to be able to set the default "Save to" location from within the product so that we CAN save to a local directory without a bunch of repetitive steps every single time we create a new project. I get that you recommend that we save locally, but in this case our inability to use the mandated default location should outweigh your desire to force us to, so we should be given the option...even if that means more support calls for you. Just my $.02

I have for years saved my story file to C:\Projects and publish to C:\Publish. Just create each of these folders on your C:drive. And of purse at least once or twice a day I copy the story file to our network folder as a backup while I’m in development.

Still want this feature! How about just make it stick to the last place you saved, even when the program is closed.

Default Folder to Publish To | Articulate

31 Replies

EmilyBurnett
Community Member
11 years ago

Hello Tanya!

When you hit the publish button, the default folder will go to the C drive, documents, my articulate projects by design.

In the Folder field you will have to indicate where on your computer you want Presenter to create your published output. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a specific location. Presenter will create a new folder in that spot with all the files needed to play your presentation.
TanyaM
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi Emily,

Thanks for your reply. In the past, what you have described is exactly what my publishing has done, it has defaulted to the C drive. The new IT policy overrides that and now pushes it to a private network folder.

What I want to do is avoid having to use the ellipsis button (and navigate to my C drive) every time I want to publish, and instead change the properties of the default publishing folder.

Cheers,

Tanya
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
11 years ago

Hi Tanya,

It sounds like you're saying that there is a new policy in place that has determined your default settings in regards to publishing location and behavior? I don't believe there is a way to change that default behavior from within Studio.

Have you reached out to your IT team to see if they had any suggestions?
TanyaM
Community Member
11 years ago

Hi Ashley,

Yes, spot on, the policy has replaced my old default settings with new ones. I've chatted with IT and given that they are not familar with Articulate software asked if I could seek an answer from the community.
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
11 years ago
Of course you can Tanya! Hope someone is able to help you out!
BenBoozer
Community Member
11 years ago
Hello,

I work for a law firm and we have folder redirection in place which puts the My Documents folder in a network location. This causes all kinds of problems with Articulate software. We really need a way to change the default save location. It's problematic having to do it manually at every save.

Ben
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
11 years ago
Hi Ben! You are welcome to share those thoughts here with our development team :)
BenBoozer
Community Member
11 years ago
Thanks, I have forwarded the issue to them.

Ben
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
11 years ago
Thank you Ben!
GregoryPugh
Community Member
10 years ago
Ben,

Did this issue get resolved? Every time I want to save, I have to manually change the drive letter from C: to where I really want the materials saved. Sometimes I forget and it saves it on C: This should be an available setting in Articulate. That's programming 101.