If you have a recent version of Windows (8.1 or 10 for sure), you can move your user-account Documents folder to your D: Drive and the apps that default to it will find it where you put it, as will File Explorer, etc.
Find the Documents folder in C:\Users\userID\, right click on the folder name and select properties. Among those you should see either a tab or an entry that specifies Location. You can do this with some of the other standard default folders, such as Music and Pictures. Very handy if you have a small C: drive (such as a SSD). The idea of having different defaults by file type is an interesting one. It probably flies in the face of using the standard platform open/close/save/save-as functions, so might be trickier than one might think. (I worry about having just one more way for the AOO user profile to be corrupted [;<). Need a way not to surprise anyone who expects the current behavior.) - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Donald Miller [mailto:damill...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 08:40 To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Path settings in newer releases By the way, could "options > paths" be made an easier setting and less easy to be reset without permission? Present default is up to 7 folder levels deep on C, but I have all my non system files on D (for ease of backup). I absolutely despise Bill Gates defaults, such as C:\Users\userID\Documents. Some programs let user settings reside in a text file, which can be backed up and copied-in after updates. Regards, Donald A. Miller --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
