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Option to change default location for temp folder

Travis Klinker

January 21, 2012 04:06

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Originally from ticket #3798.

 A design consideration for the next release to

the desktop tool is to allow the user to designate the temp folder

location. It can default to the location you already have set, but it

would nice to change it.

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4 comments

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  Frank Edwards January 21, 2012 04:06

  As Promised.

   

  Thanks!

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  Thomas Nguyen June 13, 2017 21:13

  Can we change the location now? If so, please give instruction.

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  Nazar Tareyev June 08, 2018 05:41

  I have opened a new request here 

  https://opendrive.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/82619

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  Mark Lamias June 08, 2018 20:18

  The only way I know how to change the temp file location is by following these steps that I had to figure out on my own.  This assumes you are using Windows.

  Here are the steps I took to move the temp file location *only* under Windows 10 64-bit.  This is useful if your C:\ drive is too small to support large file transfers.  

  1. Run OpenDrive and log in. 
  2. Navigate to C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Temp 
  3. Copy the OpenDrive directory to an external hard drive (in my case the F:\ drive) that has lots of free space (in my case I used an 8TB Seagate external Hard drive, but any drive could be used with sufficient free space). 
  4. Close OpenDrive and Kill all OpenDrive Processes (I used a Process Explorer, which is freely downloadable to find and kill all OpenDrive processes.  You can also go into processes and kill explorer.exe and either wait for explorer.exe to restart, or simply use processes to start a new explorer.exe task - save any work before doing using this method though.). 
  5. Rename the OpenDrive directory in C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Temp to OLD_OpenDrive (in theory you could delete this, but I just renamed it to be safe in case I needed to revert back to it.). 
  6. I created a symbolic link in C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Temp to point to my OpenDrive folder on my external hard drive F:\OpenDrive by issuing the following command in my command prompt window as described in the howtogeek.com article I've included below:

  mklink /J C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Temp\OpenDrive F:\OpenDrive

  7. Rebooted my computer (I'm not sure this is a necessary step thought), re-opened OpenDrive and logged in.

  Edited by Mark Lamias October 14, 2020 15:51