topic Re: Autodesk Application Manager Default Save Location in AutoCAD Forum

Autodesk Application Manager Default Save Location

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 10:45:37 GMT

Hi, I am needing to turn on Folder Redirection for my users 'My Documents' folder. But the problem is my CAD users have the folder 'Autodesk Application Manager' stored along with all the updates for there Autodesk programs. I notice you can change the location with the Settings folder which is fine. But I need to do this globally across my offices so I am wondering is there a registry setting or a config file that can be changes and distributed out using GPO, otherwise I will have to copy gigs and gigs of files across to my server and I don't want to, This is a really silly default save location by the way Autodesk!! Any help is most appreciated.

Re: Autodesk Application Manager Default Save Location

john.vellek — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:28:03 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I relocated my Docs folder using these steps and the Application Desktop Manger seems to work fine with the new location:

Right-click the My Documents or Documents folder. ...
Click the Location tab.
Click the Move button.
In the resulting dialog box, go to your name folder in drive D:, create a new folder inside it called documents , and select that.
After you click OK, click Yes to move your files.

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Re: Autodesk Application Manager Default Save Location

john.vellek — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:45:00 GMT

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Re: Autodesk Application Manager Default Save Location

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:43:34 GMT

Hi, sorry I didn't make myself clear enough. It's Folder Redirection via GPO to a server location so they can take there contents of the 'My Documents' folder from computer to computer of they login to another desktop other than there own. If they did that with the contents of the 'Autodesk Application Manager' folder it would pipe all of the data from it to the server and could be very slooooow. So I need to change the location of where the updates are saved to other than that folder. I sorted it and this is what I did:-

The old Autodesk Application Manager config ini is stored at the location C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Autodesk Application Manager.ini

The new Autodesk Desktop App config ini is stored at the location C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Autodesk Desktop App\AutodeskDesktopApp.ini

I took a copy of them both (they are very similar) and inside is a line that needs editing

[DownloadManager]
MaxActiveDownloadCount=3
Location=C:\\Users\%username%\My Documents\Autodesk Application Manager

I changed the location section to this

Location=C:\\Windows\Temp (leave the double back slash as it's needed)

I then saved both the new modified ini files to my Domain's NETLOGON folder then created 2 User GPOs copying the ini files over the old ini files in there particular locations.

Once the settings have taken place I will turn on Folder Redirection and not have the hassle of having all of the data piped over my network.