Installing ON1 Photo 10 on D: drive

Stuart Crow

• October 01, 2018 13:16

Hello all

Due to the unexpected and sudden demise of my pc I need to install ON1 Photo 10 on my new machine.

The new pc has a 128Gb SSD containing the operating system, and to keep as much as possible off this SDD

I wish to install to my D: drive (internal SATA)

When installing ON1 Photo 10 I could not see an option to specify the destination drive. Is it possible to install

to a drive other than C: ?  If so, where is the option to do this ?

TIA

 

 

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  Rick Sammartino Community moderator

  • October 01, 2018 14:39

  I don't see any options to change the install drive. Photo Raw takes about 200mb on my PC. You can move the cache and scratch to E: in the options after the install.

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  Stuart Crow

  • October 01, 2018 17:29

  Thanks for the reply. I managed to sort it out, however.  After web search I changed the installation folders in the registry to point at the one I wished to use.  Installing ON1 10 then created a folder in C;\Program Files (x86) of 8.11 Mb and the program itself on my D: drive which is where I wanted it.

   

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  Rick Sammartino Community moderator

  • October 01, 2018 20:01

  Good tip. If there is some documentation about it, can you add a link here?

  Anyone reading this that doesn't know how to use the registry should not try it. You can seriously mess up your PC.

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  Stuart Crow

  • October 02, 2018 08:35

  Sorry, I should have done that.

  The link is

  https://www.thewindowsclub.com/change-default-program-files-directory-windows

  However, the caveat is that Microsoft does not support changing it in this way, as in

  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/933700/microsoft-does-not-support-changing-the-location-of-the-program-files

  So it should only be done temporarily while installing, then the registry value changed back.

  I agree, any changes to the registry should be undertaken with great care after making a complete registry backup

  because there is a risk of completely screwing up your machine.

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  Rick Sammartino Community moderator

  • October 02, 2018 15:32

  Thanks Stuart. Good to know.

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  Harry Sanford

  • May 23, 2019 16:34

  I too have the same issue but I am skeptical of changing the registry. Does on1 have a better solution? Most installation have a screen where you can go back and change the destination drive and or folder to where you want the program installed. Why is not an easy solution? 

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  Shannon Bradford

  • August 29, 2019 03:53
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  Good lord, what is this?  1990?  How can a  company in this day and age, not allow you to pick the drive where you install their software?!?  I'm a trial user who wants to give this a run, but I'm tempted to skip it altogether if their setup is this short-sighted.

  Many users, myself included, run an SSD as their C: drive that is much smaller than their SATA D: or E drives.  For ON1 to just assume that it is OK to install to C: is shocking to say the least and a huge oversight on their part.

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