How do you chage Adobe Acrobat Default startup folder?

do you mean the folder that it looks in if you try to open a document?

yes open/save

To change the default folder for My Documents, right-click My Documents, click Properties, and, in Target, type or browse for the path and folder name where you want to save files.

DD

But when you reOPEN adobe it doesnt remember, i was thinking it might be something in the registry i need to chage

No, if you right click on the My Documents icon on the desktop, and change the target line (direct it to the folder you want it to always use as a default) then all the programs will use that as the default directory instead of My Documents when you want to open or save a file.  You can also rename the desktop icon with the name of that folder.

I thought this [changing the default of my documents] was the obvious solution, but doesn't appear to be working.  To update on the issue strictly with adobe; the closest they published about being able to do this was v5.0.1 remembered the last directory you opened or saved from/to.  This feature was marked as a programming error and removed from future releases.  If this can be done; I would assume it would be by editing a registry key.

munkyxtc : You know exactly what I want to do and I'm 99% sure there is a way to do this and I am very capable of editing the registry, I just need help to do so. I'll bump up thw points if someone can help me.

no help here>?

Only for version 3 or 4, but there may have been a step missing from the above:

1. Create a shortcut to launch Acrobat with or locate the existing one you use already.
2. Right click it and choose Properties
3. Type the full path to the desired default folder in the "Start in" text box on the "Shortcut" tab of the Properties dialog box.
4. Click OK or click Apply then Close.

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Make sure that there's at least one PDF file in the default folder you've specified otherwise Acrobat will
ignore your selection and revert to whatever default folder it normally uses.
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Thanks,
Sean

Wouldn't you change it under Batch Processing. Choose Edit Batch Sequences, then choose Open All, Edit Sequence then select option 2 - Run Commands on then select "Select Folder" then choose the folder you want to open all the time then select OK. It seems to work for me on Acrobat 6.

Barb

Great. Just last week I spent like an hour trying to do exactly that: changing the default folder. I concluded that I must be inapt at something...
I now did the icon property trick, and it did not work even where I had thought it might: I thought it would work on initial startup, but not at consequent save and open operations. However even initially it opens up in the My Documents folder regardless...
So I am joining the crowd awaiting a solution...
George

Gee I found this at the Planet PDF which talks of Javascript to change the default folder. I only work on Acrobat 6 on the Mac. My PC has Acrobat 4 on it.

http://forum.planetpdf.com/wb/default.asp?action=9&read=29137&fid=6#75151

Sorry I think I was wrong earlier.

Barb

 

This won't be too much help, but it will give you an idea where to look.

When I open Adobe Acrobat 6.0, and click on the Open folder, it goes to my A+ folder (it's a program I downloaded).  Recently, I created a pdf out of a chm file from that folder.  The method I used was to print to Distiller, and then merge the various files into one.  So, I believe that whatever folder is the "Source" folder for the last pdf file you created, that becomes your default folder for opening/saving files.

What you can try to do is, create PDF Files from other places, besides My Documents, and see if Adobe opens to those folders.  If so, then more than likely, you'll have to move a file to your preferred folder, and create the pdf out of it.  That should set your Acrobat to the preferred folder.  Another method is to look in the .joboptions files (or create a new one using Distiller) and also the registry settings for the folder that it's defaulting to.  

Sorry I couldn't be more help.. I do, however, agree with you that they should put the option back.. I save all of my pdf files to My Documents\Adobe Acrobat Files, just for simplicity and centralization.
Hope this helps you a bit.
Patrick.

Patrick's suggestion is great. Please folks! I put the link here to make it painless as opposed to Adobe...  http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html  
George

there has to be a registry value somewhere in there to do this.
if not adobe are fools...so far what 'marcin_kom' said was the best work around..although no relavation

Try this link :

http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/index.php

At least you will speed up the loading of your PDF files
José

it seems hard to believe that they complete made it impossible to do this!