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Installation path

Aug 16, 2012 7:42 AM

Tags: #acrobat #reader #installation

How can I set the installation path of Adobe Acrobat Reader 10 as the Download Assistant give me no options at all, it simply installs it on my C drive which is full?

 

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513 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: Pat Willener, Aug 17, 2012 3:11 AM
 
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    Aug 16, 2012 4:19 PM   in reply to any screen names left?
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    Moving this discussion to the Adobe Reader forum.

     
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    Aug 16, 2012 4:30 PM   in reply to Jeff A Wright
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    If your C drive is full you are pretty much stuck. Even if you could move the program files, there are common files, DLLs and so on that have to go on the Windows disk.

     
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    Aug 16, 2012 9:47 PM   in reply to any screen names left?
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    Download the offline installer from http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/

     

    When you run that installer, you can change the destination folder to anywhere you want:

    arip.png

     

    Regarding your full C: drive, give CCleaner a try.

     
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    Aug 17, 2012 1:24 AM   in reply to Pat Willener
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    Thanks for the link - exactly what I was looking for. 

     

    My small C drive is a partition set by a particularly unhelpful IT department and is consequently full of applications such as Adobe Reader where there are no options to set the install destination folder. I have a massive D drive with lots of free space where I prefer to install programs, but some applications with proprietary download "assistants" etc are less than helpful.


    Still, that's freed up 100MB or so

     
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    Aug 17, 2012 3:11 AM   in reply to any screen names left?
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    [off-topic] What I would do if I were to find myself in your situation was to repartition that drive with a bootable partitioning tool like PartedMagic. [/off-topic]

     
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