Monday, 14 May 2018

windows - How can I change the folder location for QGIS temporary files?


Even though I specify specific files for output, there are still a lot of temporary data being written to C:\Users\me\AppData\etc


My C drive is a very limited capacity SSD and it's driving me nuts that I can't tell where QGIS to go for ALL temporary data.


Maybe there's a configuration file (python, etc) that I can change this value assuming there's no dialog box in the UI to do that? Has anyone successfully changed this?


I already changed the option in Processing->Options but that's the "default" directory for writing out files, not for temporary data.



Answer




In Settings -> Options -> System of QGIS, you will be able to see the read only current environment variables of your system; precisely the folder where your temporary data are being written (see next image).


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You can edit the path of these folders by using the Control Panel of Windows (filtering by env at the browser); see next image.


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