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Originally Posted by speedlever
I don't have a great deal of confidence in Adobe's support. They give me a totally bogus reason for why they can't have an option to change the default download location for ADE.
For example, "It is not possible to move the default location of the books from where these are downloaded by default error will occur and the DRM functionality will not work and Adobe thinks that it would not a preferable by anyone to have his/her purchased ebooks read by someone else who should not be able to do so."
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I would say confused (as is most of our admittedly poor tech support, when you get beyond the script).
There are a few reasons we haven't moved from the default locations of (My) Document/(My) Digital Editions:
1.) The location for the manifest (the metadata about the library) is fixed in case other RMSDK customers want to use it (so far none have, Sony, Kobo, and B&N prefer to maintain their own separate libraries for instance).
2.) Simplicity - You will notice that in ADE there are no preferences/settings, as the UI designers were trying to make the application as simple as possible to use. With no settings there is no way to change anything from the default.
3.) Time/Budget for adding new features. Because of 1 and 2, allowing users to change the download location is not a high priority feature (and to be blunt, probably never will be).
As for the quote itself:
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Originally Posted by Nameless Adobe Tech Support
It is not possible to move the default location of the books from where these are downloaded by default
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True, mostly, see below
ADE keeps the library in the (My) Documents/(My) Digital Editions. If you move the location of the My Documents folder on Windows you will also move the location of the My Digital Editions folder. However the User-to-User and mobile read forums are littered with various cases of people who after moving their My Document folder get a can't "Find My Digital Editions folder" error, which results in varying degrees of frustration.
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and the DRM functionality will not work
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Outright false.
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and Adobe thinks that it would not a preferable by anyone to have his/her purchased ebooks read by someone else who should not be able to do so.
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Well Yes - that's the point of Content Licensing, but that has nothing to do with the question at hand, and is not the reasons why we are in a non configurable folder.
Also, you can move the files after they are downloaded (remove from library and re-add to the library from new location), but I agree that this isn't the same, and definitely isn't a great user experience.
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Jim Lester
Engineering Lead - Digital Publishing Services
Adobe Systems