Customizing default file open areas

Is there any way to customize where Adobe looks to open Adobe files when I try to open an Adobe file? I don't store my documents under "my documents" and I'm about six clicks away before I get to my default directory. Thank you.

Create a short-cut link in the My_Documents to your folder. You are then only 1 extra click away. As far as Acrobat goes, there is no default you can easily change, if any at all. (It would be in the registry if there is one.)

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I have InDesign CS5.5 installed on my PC (Windows 7). Yesterday I installed Adobe Creative Suite 3 to add Photoshop CS3 as Photoshop Elements 9 doesn't do CMYK. Now all my InDesign documents are attempting to open automatically in InDesign CS3 (which is part of the old Suite bundle).
How do I change settings (I tried associating file type with program, no joy) so that InDesign files open in CS5.5 by default?
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Try reassociating the INDD files with CS5.5 by right clicking an INDD file and choosing open with. Browse to the EXE for InDesign CS5.5. This may or may not work.
Installing out of order is not a very good idea. You may well be better off uninstalling everything and reinstalling in order.
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How do you change the initial path that file->open looks in? I cannot seem to change this to a folder that is predefined to hold *.sql files.
Sql Developer 2.1 I am using.

Can't be done, but sqldev should remember previously used paths and make easily accessible buttons for them in the left margin. Setting Preferences - Database - Worksheet - Select default path to look for scripts can also help.
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Sorry if this has been posted before, but I couldn't find any mention of it.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- open SQLDev
- open a connection
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Result: the file is not associated with the open connection and you have to manually select it from the drop-down on the top right corner.
Previous versions were working as expected and current behaviour is extremely annoying.
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xxsawer wrote:
Well basicaly I think that any default sticking of a file to a connection is wrong.I disagree. To me default should be the connection(s) currently open.
If you really want to have such feature then it has to be configurable and disabled by default.That sounds more reasonable.
I think that first time you open a file you always have to chose a connection.I strongly disagree.
Consider you would have 10 connections opened and opening a file for the first time. To which connection would you attach the file?ideally SQLDev should ask me to which of the currently open connections I want to pin the file. If that's too much work, I can live with not pinning to any (IOW, as it is now). BUT if only ONE connection is open I want SQLDev to pin any file to that connection, without asking anything (IOW, as it worked before).
To remember to which connection was a file attached, you need to remember the full path to the file and the connection. If you have hunderts or even thousands of files then such log would be pretty big. What if I remove some files from my project? There is no way how you can detect this, so the log will contain dead mappings.I don't want SQLDev to remember anything: I work with CVS/SVN and the same file can be compiled on different connections (DEV, TEST, PROD, etc.). Not sure what are you talking about here...
Basicaly I don't understand why need this functionality? You need to attach a file to a connection only when you need to compile it. When I am programing something I usually have only few souces open (e.g. three packages). I doubt anybody opens and changes large number of packages. Are you doing some changes to entire system every day?I don't understand how the number of files should make any difference. You open three packages, fine: don't you need to compile the changes you make? I just don't want to be forced to choose the connection if that can be automated (and, BTW, how many connections do you have? I have hundreds: do you think it's fun scrolling through a list that long?).
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Default file opener?

This questions involves all of the iWork '08 applications.
How do I set these applications to be the default application for opening files sent to me?
In other words, when I receive a .ppt file and double-click to open, my computer uses Adobe to attempt to open. With .doc and .xls files, my computer uses AppleWorks. I can open these files in iWork by using CTRL->Open with...->Numbers/Keynote/Pages....and when I do that it tells me that Adobe/AppleWorks is the default.
So again, how do I change this so that I can double-click the file and have it open in the appropriate iWork application? Thanks.

Hello
This question is not specific to iWork's products, it's a generic one.
Select the icon of one of those files (say a xxx.ppt one)
Press cmd + I to display the Showt file info window.
In this window you will see an "Open with" menu.
Navigate to the wished application, here Keynote
Select it
then click onto the "Change all" button
After that, double clicking a xxx.ppt file's icon will open it in Keynote
Using the same process you will be able to link .doc files to Pages
and .xls files to Numbers.
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In File > Open, the shortcuts on the left side don't work (Desktop and My Documents). Within our company, these are stored outside the PC on the network, so whatever PC I use i get my own desktop and My Docyuments available. But, SQL Developer can't find these, even when I use the Location drop down list. If I put the mouse over the My documents button/link, the location is shown correctly (My Documents (\\WINSVXXX\My_Username$\My Documents). In Help>About, then tab Properties the property user.home shows correctly \\WINSVXXX\My_Username$. Can it be that SQL Developer accesses the network as a different user (anonymous?) so that it can't find the location? This is the first application that I know of that can't handle this.
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Is there any way i can get this to work?
SQL Developer versien 2.1.0.63 Build MAIN-63.73
Edited by: user11987111 on 9-feb-2010 2:31

Thanks for this quick reply. Yes, the $ is present in the real path and yes, mapping seems to work. If it is this easy, why doesn't the default file>open work, this looks like a bug? It is not that userfriendly if every user (hundreds) should map there own drive letter to get this to work.

Default File system Authorization

Dear all
I have a question regarding the file systems Authorization
By default File system are created with authorization as follow :
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In fact what I do not like about this is that in the "user group" of the machine is populated "Authenticated Users"
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Why keeping such wide permission on sever by default instead of closing the permission and granting access to people that need it ?
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Hi Bruno,
I understand your concern. However, the default permission set is the result after balancing security and usability. If user groups like authenticated users are removed by default, it would break things for sure.
Regarding critical servers like Domain Controllers and file servers, we should keep them in a secure environment and only grant physical access to qualified administrators.
Here are a few threads for your references:
Why is "Authenticated Users" in the local Users group by default?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/bb74fa7c-89bd-476d-88bf-e88cd66618e6/why-is-authenticated-users-in-the-local-users-group-by-default?forum=winserversecurity
Risk of removing NT authority\authenticated users (S-1-5-11) from group "USERS"
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/681831a3-7fdc-493c-9cd8-378806733889/risk-of-removing-nt-authorityauthenticated-users-s1511-from-group-users
What is the best method to remove the Authenticated users group from all windows 7 workstations?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/b6794a96-fa6d-43df-8708-92aa4ccb3d8f/what-is-the-best-method-to-remove-the-authenticated-users-group-from-all-windows-7-workstations?forum=w7itprosecurity
Errors after removing Authenticated User in C drive
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e47896d7-21dd-4924-b96c-0aa70b99bcf5/errors-after-removing-authenticated-user-in-c-drive?forum=w8itprosecurity
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Text variables are missing after making a custom variable with no files open????

I made a customer text variable with no files open hoping to make it available to ALL my files. Well, that backfired... when I open an existing file I can't see any variables unless I go and make a new one.
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Now that I have 2 version of InDesign on my mac (10.8.5 - Mountain Lion), both CC and CC 2014, how can I make my .indd files open by default in CC instead of the new 2014 version?
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What versions of Photoshop and Windows are you running?
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Hi,
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