Adobe downloaded to multiple drives please help Thanks

Question

I purchased adobe web premium a couple of months ago. When I downloaded this program and I did a custom install to go onto another drive. With my computer I have several hard drives with multiple drives on them. I wanted this to go all onto my G drive but for some reason it downloaded alot of stuff to my C drive. My C drive is really full so I did not want any of this program on there. My question is this Can I take all of the stuff on the C drive and move it to my G drive with out messing up the program. I am talking brushes, Plugins things of this nature. I don't want it to look in the registry of the C drive but the G drive. This way it saves alot of space on my C. I have windows vista Ultimate. Can someone help me figure this out? Thanks

Answer 1

ladytaralynn wrote:
My C drive is really full so I did not want any of this program on there.
That is normal behavior. Shared components such as Bridge, PDFL, Fonts etc. will always be installed on your system drive.
ladytaralynn wrote:
My question is this Can I take all of the stuff on the C drive and move it to my G drive with out messing up the program. I am talking brushes, Plugins things of this nature.
Most likely not. Some plug-ins will always have to be loaded within the context of your system root directory since they need to obbey a specific loading order and call up other files. Likewise, any content or extension will not show up in the fly-out menus, if not in the reserved directories. E.g. if you move your brushes to a different drive, the program cannot scan them on startup and they will not be listed in the menu. You will have to load them manually, which simply may become impractical. The only thing I can think of, is to create a link to the folder and place it inside the program directory, but this does not work for all Adobe programs. So more or less, you should really leave things as they are and instead get a bigger drive one of those days. Deactivate your apps, create a disk image, apply the image to the new drive, reactivate everything... Should do the trick without having to fully re-install.
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