Default file directory ?
Crhoff
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts and I want to change it. I have
tried using the Start In, found under properties of the shortcut, but that
doesn't work. Can't find it in the registry. Can't seem to find an .INI
file with it in. Can anybody help?
Thanks
BigJohnD
> Where does PM 7 set the default file directory?
>
You mean when you click File -> open, not where the PM files are stored?
The default folder should be the "My Documents" folder.
· In Windows XP and 2000, the default location is [local disk]/Documents and
Settings/[user profile]/My Documents.
· In Windows Me and 98, the default location is [startup drive]/My Documents.
Have you re-assigned the "My documents" folder in anyway, using a roaming
profile or TweakUI?
The critical line in the Registry is:
<HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/User
Shell Folders/Personal registry key:
*Cautionary note:*
Back up the Registry before making any changes.
-- Iechyd da! John. Glannau Mersi, Lloegr
Written at Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:34 GMT, probably posted later
Using Virtual Access 5.51 build 315 on Windows 2000 build 2195.
Crhoff
Thanks for the suggestions.
I'm using Win98SE and the registry entry you mentioned reads
Personal "C:\My Documents" which seems ok. My Documents folder is on C
Drive right where it should be and has always been. PM 7 is installed on E
Drive, but that shouldn't matter. Something has gotta be telling File->Open
to go to
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts but I sure can't seem to find it.
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BigJohnD
> Something has gotta be telling File->Open to go to
> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts but I sure can't seem to find it.
>
Weird. It's not as if you've have a PM or image file in that folder.
-- Iechyd da! John. Glannau Mersi, Lloegr
Written at Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:44 GMT, probably posted later
Judy Bay
I was surprised how many PM links I had.
@nospamnetspace.net.au Gordon Woolf
Did you do a Custom install of PM7? That seems to be the most common
thread where people have this problem. There seems to be a particular
combination of choices in plugins and/or filters which leaves this off
behavior as a result -- try uninstalling and then do a "typical"
install. Let us know if that solves the problem.
--
Gordon Woolf
The Worsley Press <www.worsleypress.com>
Publishers of "How to Start and Produce a Magazine or Newsletter"
Crhoff
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Crhoff
instead of D drive. Maybe that has something to do with it.
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That's actually a good practice. I can't recall how I assigned things
in my custom install, and I am not sure why you are having the
problems you are having, but here's my experience, for what it's
worth. (I run PageMaker 6.5. and 7 under Windows 2000 and XP on a
laptop):
I have my OS on Drive C:, which I call "Root". Very little else save
for fonts and stuff I don't have a choice about goes on that drive.
Essentially, it's "clean" and has a nice big pagefile on it for
swapping files, as needed.
Drive D: is "Programs". Here is where all programs are stored, and
where I route downloads, e-mail and FTP files, which are isolated both
from the programs and from the rest of the drives.
Drive E: is "Data". Here are all archived and working DTP files,
including PageMaker stuff, which is stored as "issues", with each
publication, and all related links, fonts, graphic elements and what
have you stored in the same folder.
The benefits of this come with imaging that entire partition for
archive and back up over a network or to a separate physical drive,
and the benefit of having only the data drive to regularly defragment,
as C: and D: don't get very fragmented as they aren't written to very
often. Also, this "sock drawer" approach means that I keep good track
of files as they come in, as PageMaker opens in "Recent Files" only
those files linked to specific folders, i.e. on the E:/DATA drive.
Finally, keeping data, programs and OS on different partitions lessens
the chance that a hard drive failure or virus attack (I never get
those, either, but that's a different set of protocols) will be a
castastrophe. Recently, my main drive began to fail, as evidenced by a
partition doing a periodic disappearing act. I had the lot imaged onto
a new drive and was back working in about two hours for the cost of a
new drive plus $40 for the "labour".
Regarding PageMaker: The "Open" and "Open Recent" commands never go
into D: and want to open stuff in My Documents there or on C;, because
my working directory/folder is always the same place, on E:/DATA. When
that drive gets too full, I purge old stuff by moving it to archive
drives and zipping the lot. This is a good way to use older, smaller
drives, for storing stuff.
As a further precaution, I burn CD-ROMs of old, zipped publications
and store them offsite. If the house burns down, I buy a new tower,
format, and load programs and data from squirrelled away CD-ROMs kept
elsewhere. Tragic, but not terminal.
Hope these methods are of some help. Usually, the effort made to
revise early on makes things go smoothly later in life.
R.
Crhoff
the folder you want to be the default. Now make a shortcut to that file and
put it in the folder that PM wants to go to. Now when you go to File->Open,
click on the shortcut and it will open a blank page and leave you in the
directory you want. Found this by searching in this news group. Credit
goes to Rick pu...@goknf.com
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BigJohnD
> but did put the program on E drive
>
That shouldn't be a problem.
-- Iechyd da! John. Glannau Mersi, Lloegr
Written at Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:48 GMT, probably posted later