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T.Todua
T.Todua

Reputation: 56487

Moving the default folders(.AndroidStudio2.X and .gradle ) to D disk:

I want to move Installed AndroidStudio from C: disk to another. I've successfully(by standard way) .android folder, sdk folder(with it's environment variable) and installation path. However, I cant handle these ones:

c:\users\user\.AndroidStudio2.2
c:\users\user\.gradle

when I move these folders to d:\myfolder and changing every occurrence of c:\users\user\.AndroidStudio2.2 to d:\myfolder\.AndroidStudio2.2 (with TextCrawler), and changing .gradle location in AndroidStudio, it doesnt help. In C:\user\user there is still created (upon running AStudio) .AndroidStudio2.2 folder. And running Emulator causes errors, because it cant find anything options in C:\users......

plus, I have uncommented and set the path values (in installation/bin/idea.properties) to d:\myfolder, but still no help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 899

Answers (1)

Marcos Placona
Marcos Placona

Reputation: 21730

Having dome something similar in the past, I find that moving drives on most software applications is still a big pain. However, I found that creating symlinks was helpful, as the software will "think" it's accessing the files at a location, but in reality they are stored in another.

I successfully did this in the past with Visual Studio and the concept is pretty much the same with Android Studio. You need to create a symlink as follows:

mklink /J "d:\myfolder\.AndroidStudio2.2" "c:\users\user\.AndroidStudio2.2"

Now when Android studio read or write the contents in c:\users\user\.AndroidStudio2.2, it will be in reality going to your d drive, which provided that it's accessible by the c drive, should make it all work.

You should be able to do that with the other folders as well. The benefit of doing it this way is that you're not constrained to the path the file is stored, which means that if you change computers or decide to store everything on the c drive again, you can just remove the symlink.

Hope this helps you.

Upvotes: 2

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