Expert: Scott Cook - 1/29/2010

Question
I am teaching AutoCAD 2010, fundamentals & intermediate classes at a local community college. The Students change their background color, (and soome other simple things like their keyboard macro "C" to Copy instead of Circle.)  Whenever thay login the following day all of these settings are wiped out.  I believe these settings are in their "Local Settings" folder, C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Local Settings.  The college only backs up "My Documents" folder and anything nested there.  Can I re-direct the "local settings" folder to the "My Documents" folder so that the students settings remain from class to class? I looked in the Options>Folders tab and I do not see where I can assign the "Local Settings" folder.  I am afraid to just move it without re-assigning the options in AutoCAD.  Can you help?  Thanks!!

Answer
It's probably a user permissions thing. If the computers are on a domain, the administrators probably have that folder locked down.
The location of the local settings folder is set on the system itself and not a function of AutoCAD.
I'd probably save the profile to a file, then reload it each day, but that's not going to get your macros back.
AutoDesk recommends that CAD users have administrative permissions to the local machine for AutoCAD to function properly.