Forum Discussion
Default Folder to Publish To
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
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Ashley,
I would like to follow up with this specifically because of Articulate's recommendations on naming conventions. I have had issues with long file paths specifically because of the default, and have begun storing all of my .story files at
C:\Storyline\instead of
C:\Users\Work\Documents\My Articulate Projects\
To add even more to this though, the folder that you create for us is "My Articulate Projects", after stressing in numerous places to NOT use any spaces in either the file name or filepath, it seems crazy that the default does exactly that.
I am also submitting this as a feature request, but am not optimistic for a change, as there are multiple forum posts and several people have stated that they have requested this already, going back multiple years ago.
Thanks for submitting the request Michelle.
I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.
Hello! Just wanted to check back in on this thread and see if there was now a way to change your default save/publish to location in Storyline? The default location doesn't work for me as a matter of process and backup. Thanks!
Hi, Chrisie. Welcome, and thanks for checking in!
Just to be sure, are you looking to change the default C:/Users/YourName/Documents/My Articulate Projects location in Storyline? If so, here's a quick Peek recording on how to modify it along with some pointers.
Does that help? Let me know if you meant something else! 🙂
Thanks Katie, but -
"It won't remember the Publish location. It'll just go back to the default one."
Why?
Thx
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.
I, too, have been publishing to "C:\Publish" on my computer for years, to avoid issues with long path names and to not have all the gigabyes of published training files backed up to my company's servers.
Previous versions of Studio would remember the last folder published to as a global setting, and this was wonderful. It was a boon to streamlining workflow. With the current version of Storyline I have to manually set each project to the publish folder I want to use.
It is very clear that Articulate does not seem care about this feature request as it has been requested for many years. I think everybody posting to this and many other forum threads fully understand what Articulate wants us to do regarding local folders and why, and everyone posting about this has already submitted a feature request to be able to change the global default publish folder. It feels like the needs of the user community just doesn't matter. Why have a feature request at all?
Unfortunately the staff responding in the forums either (a) doesn't understand what is being requested, or (b) doesn't want to answer the question. I feel like we are all spinning our wheels with this one.
<thunderous applause in support of Daniel's statement>
Hi Kevin,
Changing that element is specific to a Storyline file, not Storyline as an entire application. We also always recommend publishing to a local drive, so that's the default set in Storyline as a whole. Our best practices on editing, sharing and publishing files locally is described here.
Still want this feature! How about just make it stick to the last place you saved, even when the program is closed.
This issue has been explained several times. The most recent by Daniel almost 2 years ago. Has this been resolved or even looked at by the Articulate programmers?
