Is it possible to choose another location of the "Studio 2015" folder than in the "Documents" folder?

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I am about to install Studio 2015, and I am wondering if it is possible to choose another location of the "Studio 2015" folder than in the "Documents" folder? 
 More specifically, I might want to put it in my Dropbox folder for the purpose of automatic backup. I am also considering putting it on a different drive on my computer in order to be able to access it from outside of Windows (since I run Windows in a VirtualBox environment on a Linux computer). 
 Can this be done - perhaps during installation and setup? And if so, how? 
 Can it also be done later on? 
 Thanks in advance for any help! 
 Marie

Paul Filkin · Answer

Hi Marie, 
 Unknown said: Do you think normal updates are likely to cause any problems? 
 You might never have any problems so I can't really say... but I'd just avoid it because too many applications use this stuff by default and Windows almost forces that policy as much as it can. 
 Unknown said: Are the files which must remain in the Documents\Studio 2015 folder important in the sense that I should back them up regularly, or can I just back up my TMs and projects and forget about the files in the Documents\Studio 2015 folder? 
 I think it's your resources and working files that are the most important. So I'd back up the projects, the TMs the Termbases, the AutoSuggest Dictionaries... basically anything that I had to spend time creating. The rest you can easily put back as they are just metadata telling Studio where to find them. If I had hundreds of open projects because I worked as a Project Manager for a large LSP for example then I might consider trying to do something with the projects.xml, but otherwise I'd just reopen the projects I wanted if necessary. 
 There are also more resources in the user folders that Studio doesn't share very well, such as AutoCorrect lists and also resources your can export import like QA settings. So getting everything is a real chore and we have tried to get some interest through the AppStore community in extending a tool to help manage all of this. But sadly it's still languishing as a good idea that never took off :-( 
 Would be better if Studio itself just had an archive facility or backup facility that allowed an easy backup and restore of everything! Interestingly after two months of giving people the opportunity to ask for an idea to be built that they liked this one never came up (other than a couple of people asking for a project archiving tool), so maybe it's not really anything people worry that much about anyway... at least not until they need to move computers!! 
 Regards 
 Paul

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

You have to install Studio on the C drive, there is (from what I know) no way to change that. Also some Studio files must go to the local Documents folder. However it is quite easy to put it (the Documents) folder to any location you wish. So by right clicking this folder you can change its location also to OneDrive for example. 
However, the files which go to this folder are not the working files you need. All project files can be stored wherever you wish. If you translate a single document, the corresponding files will be by default stored in the same folder as the source file. When you create a project, you can chose any location in your computer you wish. In your project template you can set a default folder, where all projects from this template shall go. And if you receive a package, you can place the files from this package in any folder of you choice - the only requirement here is, that this folder must be empty. 
All this settings are not done during installation. You chose the location for single files by storing the source files wherever you wish. In case of projects you do that during the project creation. And afterwards you can create a template based on this project. This template can be edited - and so the default path for this template.

Paul Filkin · Answer

Unknown said: I am about to install Studio 2015, and I am wondering if it is possible to choose another location of the "Studio 2015" folder than in the "Documents" folder? 
 Quite simply, yes you can. Don't get into moving your documents folder... actually I don't think you suggested this in the first place. Just decide where you want your folders to be and start using that location. You can even set the preferred location in your project templates: 
 
 You can do this at anytime. 
 Regards 
 Paul

Paul Filkin · Answer

Unknown said: Jerzy said that a few files must stay there. But you disagree? 
 I don't disagree. This folder will be created and will always be there: 
 c:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\Studio 2015\Projects\ 
 But this doesn't mean you have to put your projects in there if you don't want to. I'd recommend you do because Studio works better when you let it do what it wants to, but using a different location or even multiple locations for your projects is not too hard to manage in Studio 2015. 
 The projects.xml file will however always be in the Studio default folder here: 
 c:\Users\[USERNAME]\Documents\Studio 2015\Projects\ 
 That's what Jerzy means. 
 Unknown said: What is the problem with moving my Documents folder? 
 No problem if you like to make work for yourself for no particularly good reason! See the link from Jerzy. 
 Paul

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