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Hello, we are running Adobe CC 2017 on Windows 7 PCs here in our school. Our PCs have the OS and all programs installed on a SSD drive and has an additional 500GB drive. our standard image takes up most of the space on the SSD drive so I would like to set the scratch drive by default to be the D drive.
I know how to do this per user but if that user logs off and another person logs on , the settings don't carry over.
Every person who logs on that PC would have to change it manually. as you can tell that is too much.
is there a way to make the D drive the DEFAULT scratch drive for all users on the PC? maybe a registry setting or something?
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Hi Genarog,
You can change the assigned disk drive from Scratch disk preferences.Follow the steps below:-
Let us know if that helps.
Thanks,
Akash
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I already know how to do that. problem is that I work in a school. if student A logs on and changes the scratch disk location to D:, it will work fin for that one user. If Student B then logs on that same PC, the settings that Student A make didnt carry over. Student B now has to the same steps to change the scratch disk location.
My question is is there a way to change the default scratch disk location FOR ALL USERS who log onto the PC?
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Make sure you do not have a permissions problem writing to you user ID Photoshop Preferences folder. It sounds like your updated preferences are not being saved. Location to the "Preferences" folder is d mentioned in Photoshop CS6 preference file functions, names, locations
~Akash
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okay I looked at the link you sent me. Virtually all of the settings save to 'Users/[user name]' which would explain why settings that 'User A' dont carry over for 'User B'.
So I ask again, is there no way to set the dafault scratch disk location for ALL USERS?
is there a way to set it by a command line script I can run as a login script perhaps?
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For Adobe CC the setting for the Photoshop scratch volume is stored here:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 Settings\MachinePrefs.psp
For 2017 it should be the similar.
Probably you can overwrite this file on each login from a network share by a file with the correct settings.