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Dawid
Dawid

Reputation: 1555

How to change PyCharm main folder on Windows?

I am struggling with our company's profile space which is limited to 250 MB for profile. I use PyCharm for some python project, but the problem is that PyCharm creates folder outside My Documents in:

C:\Users\Me\.PyCharmCE2017.3\

I would like to move the folder to some other location which is not synced with the server or to My Documents, where space is unlimited. Is there any way to change the location of the main Pycharm folder? I was looking for it in Pycharm settings but I couldn't find the option. Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 292

Answers (1)

Dawid
Dawid

Reputation: 1555

Solution thanks to Rawing:

mklink /D "C:\Users\Me\.PyCharmCE2017.3" "C:\Folder\.PyCharmCE2017.3"

used from Windows command line. First you have to move original folder to your directory, here C:\Folder\ and then create a link with this command. No shared space problem anymore and Pycharm works perfectly fine! Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

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