diff --git a/schemas/json/project/globals.json b/schemas/json/project/globals.json
index 66280e879..921131734 100644
--- a/schemas/json/project/globals.json
+++ b/schemas/json/project/globals.json
@@ -4,12 +4,6 @@
             "type": "string",
             "format": "directory",
             "description": "Provide a custom output location for your NWB files. Will default to ~/NWB_GUIDE/conversions"
-        },
-
-        "preview_output_folder": {
-            "type": "string",
-            "format": "directory",
-            "description": "Provide a custom output location for your NWB stub files. Will default to ~/NWB_GUIDE/preview. These files are expected to much smaller than the conversion files (only ~MB in scale)."
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/Page.js b/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/Page.js
index 8207918c2..8fdc86711 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/Page.js
+++ b/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/Page.js
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ export class Page extends LitElement {
             const { subject, session, globalState = this.info.globalState } = info;
             const file = `sub-${subject}/sub-${subject}_ses-${session}.nwb`;
 
-            const { conversion_output_folder, preview_output_folder, name } = globalState.project;
+            const { conversion_output_folder, name } = globalState.project;
 
             // Resolve the correct session info from all of the metadata for this conversion
             const sessionInfo = {
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ export class Page extends LitElement {
 
             const result = await runConversion(
                 {
-                    output_folder: conversionOptions.stub_test ? preview_output_folder : conversion_output_folder,
+                    output_folder: conversionOptions.stub_test ? undefined : conversion_output_folder,
                     project_name: name,
                     nwbfile_path: file,
                     overwrite: true, // We assume override is true because the native NWB file dialog will not allow the user to select an existing file (unless they approve the overwrite)
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/guided-mode/setup/GuidedNewDatasetInfo.js b/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/guided-mode/setup/GuidedNewDatasetInfo.js
index 5072e3799..38265cd3a 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/guided-mode/setup/GuidedNewDatasetInfo.js
+++ b/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/guided-mode/setup/GuidedNewDatasetInfo.js
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@ import { validateOnChange } from "../../../../validation/index.js";
 import projectGeneralSchema from "../../../../../../../schemas/json/project/general.json" assert { type: "json" };
 import projectGlobalSchema from "../../../../../../../schemas/json/project/globals.json" assert { type: "json" };
 import { merge } from "../../utils.js";
-import { schemaToPages } from "../../FormPage.js";
 import { onThrow } from "../../../../errors";
-
-import { globalSchema } from "../../../../../../../schemas/base-metadata.schema";
 import { header } from "../../../forms/utils";
 
 const projectMetadataSchema = merge(projectGlobalSchema, projectGeneralSchema);
@@ -81,7 +78,7 @@ export class GuidedNewDatasetPage extends Page {
         const schema = { ...projectMetadataSchema };
         schema.properties = { ...schema.properties };
 
-        this.state = merge(global.data.output_locations, structuredClone(this.info.globalState.project));
+        this.state = merge(global.data, structuredClone(this.info.globalState.project));
 
         this.form = new JSONSchemaForm({
             schema,
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/settings/SettingsPage.js b/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/settings/SettingsPage.js
index 749f6368a..3266bc508 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/settings/SettingsPage.js
+++ b/src/renderer/src/stories/pages/settings/SettingsPage.js
@@ -7,13 +7,20 @@ import projectGlobalSchema from "../../../../../../schemas/json/project/globals.
 
 import { validateDANDIApiKey } from "../../../validation/dandi";
 
-const schema = {
-    properties: {
-        output_locations: projectGlobalSchema,
-        DANDI: dandiGlobalSchema,
+const schema = merge(
+    projectGlobalSchema,
+    {
+        properties: {
+            DANDI: dandiGlobalSchema,
+        },
+        required: ["DANDI"],
     },
-    required: ["output_locations", "DANDI"],
-};
+    {
+        arrays: true,
+    }
+);
+
+console.log(schema);
 
 import { Button } from "../../Button.js";
 import { global } from "../../../progress/index.js";
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/validation/validation.json b/src/renderer/src/validation/validation.json
index dcf15ec17..af88a8690 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/validation/validation.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/validation/validation.json
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 
     "name": false,
     "conversion_output_folder": false,
-    "preview_output_folder": false,
 
     "NWBFile": {
         "identifier": false,