Apologies if this has already been posted, I've search for as many phrases as I can think of in the forums ("Change Folder", "File Location", "Route Directory" etc), but couldn't find any mention:

Is there any way to change the default location for storing and opening Flight Plans with PC SD Plan?

Currently routes are stored in C:\Users\{MyUserName}\Documents\SkyDemon\Routes, but in order to have the routes available on all my various home/work PC/laptops/phones I'd like to be able to store them within my Google Drive so e.g. C:\Users\{MyUserName}\GoogleDrive\SkyDemon\Routes. I can store the files in that location and load them from there fine, but every time I click to open I have to navigate from C:\Users\{MyUserName}\Documents\SkyDemon\Routes to C:\Users\{MyUserName}\GoogleDrive\SkyDemon\Routes every time - even having opened a route from the new location, SD doesn't remember it for the next load let alone the next time it runs.

I've tried looking in the program preferences, for a config file on the disk and even in the registry, but no luck. I'm hoping someone can point out a way for me - perhaps there's a secret command line option that can be used when starting SD?

There isn't, I'm afraid.

I use SyncToy and a schedule to make this work.

When we add features like this, even "power user" features that aren't technically discoverable, we end up having to support them going forward. We therefore add only feature that appeal to a majority, sorry.

It's fair enough not to address this but the planning documentation does say " ...... and the Routes folder within that is where all your saved journeys are stored by default, though you can save them elsewhere if you choose.

Personally, I sympthise with the original poster's request. On my PC I have a small SSD system drive (C), a separate drive with a partition for all program data (D) and the programs temselves (E). When a program doesn't honor my decision to store data separate from the system installation (an eminently useful decision, I might add) I consider this rude behavior. A lot of programs simply dump their data to the "default" location on the C drive, thereby swamping my lean, mean SSD drive and causing my blood pressure to rise.

I can't for the life of me understand, why I shouldn't be able to tell a program where to put its data by default.

-- Chris.

I have exactly the same setup, during installation of Windows 7 I told it to put all the 'Users' stuff on drive D (a traditional spinning drive) rather than drive C (the SSD).

Come on Tim, this is a very basic request for the program to simply remember what directory the route was last saved to/loaded from. It's standard fare in most programs. If just done by remembering last folder there's not even a requirement to have a "setup" parameter for it. There's nothing to "support" about it.

I don't see a problem with the wording in our documentation. The standard Save window that is shown allows you to save your routes anywhere you like. Only the default location is your SkyDemon Routes folder.

If you want to store your user documents in a place other than the default on your C drive, then use the proper Windows tools to achieve it. That's what they are there for.

Sorry to be late to the party, but what are the "proper Windows tools" to locate user documents on a drive other than C Tim?  I've generally heard that Microsoft strongly recommend not relocating Users folders (especially not to put them on another drive), as this confuses some Microsoft software (e.g. the Windows 10 migration fails if user folders aren't on C, apparently).  Maybe there's something I've missed.  I just don't use \Users\anything if I can possibly help it.

Just started using SkyDemon having used it with friends; very impressed so far.  Following threads on Flyer I've been especially impressed by the speed with which you fix bugs and address user issues.  It's not a great problem that it takes me an extra 6 clicks to get to my routes folder, but I'd prefer not to have to do it, especially as something like that is error-prone.  I'll probably end up misplacing routes. 

Hi, I haven't done it myself, but there seems to be a lot of information on it:
https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=change+location+of+my+documents

Thanks Tim. 

I appreciate that you can redirect some of the entries in the top-level user folder - including "My Documents", where you put the SkyDemon stuff (I assume redirecting My Documents redirects the symbollic link).  Various problems have been reported apparently caused by relocated user folders with the W10 upgrade but this may be for people who have managed to redirect the top-level user folder.

Redirecting My Documents wouldn't solve my problem as I would want to redirect not the whole Documents folder, but merely the SkyDemon sub-folder. 

However, I sense your determination that this is not something you're going to change, so I'll live with the extra 6 clicks!  SkyDemon is perhaps unusual but not unique in not allowing users to choose their own default user file location.  No big issue for me.