Downloading documents

When you place documents under change to yourself in a workflow as described in Working with document workflows, the documents are automatically downloaded to your Local Workspace, ready for editing. In other situations when you want a local copy of documents, you must download them manually. To download the rendition of a document, see Downloading renditions.

To download documents to your computer:

  1. In a navigation view, select the documents that you want to download.
  2. Right-click over your selection, point to Document, and then click Download Document.

    If your computer is configured to use a site cache, a confirmation dialog appears if:

    • This is the first time that you have used the site cache.
    • You are working from a different computer than the last time that you used the site cache.
  3. Click Yes. The documents download to your computer in the background.

To download document to your computer:

  1. In a navigation view, select the documents that you want to download.
  2. Drag and drop the documents onto your desktop or the Windows Explorer location where you want to work with them.