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Autodesk Desktop Connector - option to change standard folder path (mapping)
It's very important for our firm to change the standard path, or the tools is not usable for us.
Please ad this option like in Windows for pictures, videos, documents or in OneDrive to move the standard path to another place (drive). It also solve limitations in diskspace from drive C (SSD).
Please make this a setting. Google Drive and Dropbox have this feature and I can't keep eating up my C drive. This is a reason to not pay for bim360 entirely.
I searched windows registry for "ACCDocs" and found: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\Autodesk Drive has a multi string value containing the paths to ACCDocs and ADrive.
The path also shows up in HKEY_USERS a couple of times.
I have voted this up, as I definitely believe this should be a function of the tool, but I just tried the following and it worked!
It appears that the Desktop Connector does work with a junction link. I did this and it worked:
Quit Autodesk Desktop Connector from its tray icon menu.
Move (Cut and paste) the ACCDocs folder from your user profile directory (%USERPROFILE%\ACCDocs) to the D drive (D:\ACCDocs) or where ever you'd like it. (Not sure how it would work on a network drive, but that could be interesting to try.)
Open a command prompt and create a junction link using this command:
mklink /J %USERPROFILE%\ACCDocs D:\ACCDocs
Start Autodesk Desktop Connector.
This seems to be allowing me to download and upload folders to that location now.
I am definitely no IT guru, so to give credit where credit is greatly due, I got this info from Christine at boxifier.com.
After more testing of this junction link, it appears that it does work... but it looks like the files and folders are still on the C: drive also. I asked about this and was told the following:
The actual files are stored on the D drive ("D:\ACCDocs"), but they are also accessible through the path on in the C: drive ("C:\Users\<username>\ACCDocs\") because that is the predefined path that the Autodesk software expects to be accessible in order to work. So the files are *stored* on the D drive, but also *accessible* through that predefined path ("ACCDocs" folder inside the user profile directory).
The solution that I offered you was developed by installing the Autodesk software, finding out that the central piece is the "ACCDocs" folder stored in the user profile directory, then coming up with a way to have that folder stored on the D drive, while still being accessible from the predefined path used by the Autodesk software ("ACCDocs" folder inside your user profile directory).
To sum-up: the contents are only stored on the D drive, but they *must* be accessible from the path that the Autodesk software expects, which is what the solution that I offered you accomplishes.
So this can be a workaround until Autodesk builds the functionality into their software... which I have been told is planned, BTW.
If I am understanding you are wanting to change the folder location for BIM 360 or ACC Docs? If this is what you want to do, it is doable by editing the workspace location in the instance.xml file. I have not had a need to change it to another drive letter because this would likely cause lots of problems when you have multiple people connecting to the same folder location to work from. However I have used it to standardize folder locations on everyone's computers so that it acts more like a consistent or relative path.
@Anonymousshouldn't this idea be marked as Implemented?
@kimberly_fuhrman-jones I know this isn't your realm, but perhaps you could point this out to one of your peers in the Desktop Connector realm. I'm not sure who to address this comment to otherwise. THANKS!! You are the greatest... yes, I'm trying flattery.
@Ric_Weber correct, there is an issue or bug that does not allow us to "unsubscribe" to the last project and you cannot change the workspace without unsubscribing to that last project. If someone knows of a workaround we would really love to create similar user locations on each pc.
@richFC3T4 So you're saying that you are not able to unselect all of your projects in order to change the workspace? I just did it on mine and then was able to change the workspace, and then reselect the projects... admittedly I only have about 15 projects right now, that seemed to all work fine. I'm assuming you've issued a support ticket with Autodesk? Sounds like some issue specific to your scenario or specific machine or perhaps the specific project? Someone at support hopefully can help out. Good luck!
