Setting a Default Directory in Acrobat

I cannot for the life of me find any way to change the Acrobat default files directory from "My Documents" to a directory of my choosing. Can someone please help me with this??

You should blame MicroSoft in part. That is the default in Windows packages. I do not know how the MAC works. I just opened WORD and it opened to My Documents. It apparently can be changed, but I never tried (probably in the folders tab of options). Many folks have asked for this change in AA over many years and it still works this way.

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