Data folders

When you are using Design Editor in a local mode (in contrast to storing everything in an Asset Storage cloud service), all files are located in the folders specified in the configuration files:

• ~/Configuration/AppSettings.config

  <appSettings>
      <!-- Paths -->
      <add key="DesignFolder" value="..\assets\designs" />
      <add key="MockupFolder" value="..\assets\mockups" />
      <add key="WatermarkFolder" value="..\assets\helpers" />
      <add key="DesignImagesFolder" value="..\assets\helpers" />
      <add key="PublicGalleryFolder" value="..\assets\images" />
      <add key="UserDataFolder" value="..\userdata" />
      ...
  <appSettings>

• ~/Configuration/Aurigma.DesignAtoms.config

  <Aurigma.DesignAtoms>
      <add key="ColorProfilesDirectory" value="..\assets\ColorProfiles" />
      <add key="FontDirectory" value="..\assets\fonts" />
      ...
  <appSettings>

Depending on your needs, you may want to configure these folders to be on the same or a separate drive with the web application. It can be even a network share. See the Load-balanced environment for additional considerations when you are storing files in a network.

important

After you have moved the data folders to a network location, you must set up correct permissions for them. A user account, under which Design Editor runs in ASP.NET/IIS, must have the read/write access to these folders.

It is also important to backup all folders configured above except for the file cache.