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Hi All,I understand that the new Edge Browser just launched and it is still in its infancy but I am having difficulty with the settings as they seem over-simplified.How do I change the CACHE FOLDER LOCATION OF EDGE TO MY SECOND DRIVE?I have looked online and there is little to no answer to this question. This is a very important feature in all browsers but Edge seems to be missing this.Using CCleaner, I tracked the location where the CACHE is going to. For instance, they are being sent to:C:Users.AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge8wekyb3d8bbweACMicrosoftEdgeCacheC:Users.AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge8wekyb3d8bbweAC#!001MicrosoftEdgeCacheC:Users.AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge8wekyb3d8bbweAC#!002MicrosoftEdgeCacheI have no way to change the path Edge. I have navigated to environmental variables under system properties and changed the TEMP and TMP location but no avail.Thanks in advance!
Pity this wasn't posted sooner, but oh well. For anyone who still wants to try the SymLink method I can confirm it works.These steps are exactly as I did them (also works with ZuneMusic8wekyb3d8bbwe if you stream a lot and don't want it to wear/bloat your SSD - yes, 'stream' apparently means 'save to disk'), some steps may be unnecessary, butworth doing just in case. Your mileage my vary, if you follow these steps you do so at your own risk. Depending on restarts, step 1. May need to be repeated.
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Run cmd from the start menu with admin rights (right-click command prompt and select run as administrator). Take full ownership of the cache folders to be safe, you may want to clear using disk cleanup first.
Typetakeown /F '%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge8wekyb3d8bbweAC' /A /Rand press enter (%USERPROFILE% should work, but if not replace it with Drive:UsersUsername as per normal). When it finishes (depends on size) make an exact copy to your other drive (replace E:Edge Cache as desired; andmake sure EdgeGrooveetc. Isn't running or you will get 'in use' errors). Use:robocopy '%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge8wekyb3d8bbweAC'E:Edge Cache' /E /COPYALL /DCOPY:DAT ensure that there are no skippedfailed files, otherwise retry after disk cleanup.
Instead of deleting the original as required for Symbolic Links, suggested you rename it: ren '%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge8wekyb3d8bbweAC' 'AC Backup'in case the SymLink fails when you can just rename it AC again, deleting the SymLink (you can do this using windows explorer as well). If the renaming encounters 'in use' errors even though EdgeGrooveetc.
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Isn't running then restart your PCand retry. Create the SymLink as follows (replacing E:Edge Cache as needed): mklink /D'%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge8wekyb3d8bbweAC'E:Edge Cache' then restart your computer.After some time if everything is working smoothly and you're sure its the other drive being used for caching then you can safely delete the original AC Backup file, but I just deleted #!001MicrosoftEdgeCache from the backup. If you don't use disk cleanup, all your Edge cache should be retained.Thanks to Martin Brinkmann for inspiration from a Windows 8 variation on ghacks.net.