topic Re: Desktop Connector Location in BIM 360 Support Forum

Desktop Connector Location

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:17:22 GMT

Hi All

Can I change the location of the desktop connector files from my C drive to another Drive? if yes how?

Thank you

Re: Desktop Connector Location

bogdan_ciobanu — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:01:53 GMT

@Anonymous

Thank you for your post.

I do not think it is possible to change where the connected drives are installed, but I will double check with our engineers.

Also, maybe you would like to share the reason you would like to change where everything is installed? Just to make sure we got the whole picture here.

Thank you!

Best regards,

Bogdan

Re: Desktop Connector Location

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:08:36 GMT

Good Morning Bogdan
The main reason is that at this point my computer has a hybrid hard drive that gives me a very small C(200GB), and a big D drive(900GB). I was looking if it was possible until I change and install a 1 Thera C drive in here.
Thank you for your answer
Sandra Wohlgemuth

Re: Desktop Connector Location

bogdan_ciobanu — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:21:28 GMT

@Anonymous

Hi,

I have double checked with our development team and, yes, I have confirmed that at the moment we cannot choose where to install Desktop Connector.

I have also logged an improvement request, so maybe we will see this implemented in the future.

I hope this was helpful.

Best regards,

Bogdan

Re: Desktop Connector Location

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 09:08:36 GMT

Hi!

I have the same problem with the install location. Have you solved this issue already?

Thanks.

Re: Desktop Connector Location

smithmat — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:34:31 GMT

In the latest version of Desktop Connector, the installer allows the ability to change the install location (Options button in the installer):
You can download the latest version here:
https://help.autodesk.com/view/CONNECT/ENU/?guid=GUID-847CE3FC-B26F-46B8-895E-5D825F4BD540

Thanks,
Matt

Re: Desktop Connector Location

dan.stine — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:21:19 GMT

This is great! Thanks to Autodesk for providing a solution to this. I wrote about this on my blog, BIM Chapters:https://bimchapters.blogspot.com/2019/07/autodesk-desktop-connector-update.html

Re: Desktop Connector Location

dan.stine — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:56:48 GMT

False alarm... turns out this is just for the install location of DC, not the local cache files. Sorry:(

Re: Desktop Connector Location

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 01:45:26 GMT

A Little investigation of some of the control files in your User area

eg... C:\Users\Richard\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Desktop Connector\v4\Data Source Instances\BIM 360

You will find a file called Instance.xml

Inside that file you can alter the location of the Cache to where ever you want. Stop the Desktop connector first then make the change and restart desktop connector.

eg.. my default location as below and then altered

WorkspaceLocation="C:\Users\Richard\BIM 360"

WorkspaceLocation="E:\BIM360"

Richard.

Re: Desktop Connector Location

jbmeadows — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 22:35:24 GMT

I've done this and it seems to have worked.

Re: Desktop Connector Location

dan.stine — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:16:41 GMT

I was able to relocate the BIM 360 local files using another method and it has been workign for several months now. Editing that file might get replaced with updates? Here is what I did: https://bimchapters.blogspot.com/2019/05/move-bim-360-cache-files-to-another.html

Re: Desktop Connector Location

hdendy — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 20:45:46 GMT

Did you have to first create a folder E:\BIM360?

Re: Desktop Connector Location

jbmeadows — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 20:49:44 GMT

I did, yes. I created a separate partition to hold all of the BIM 360 files. I went ahead and moved Google Drive, OneDrive, etc to that drive as well.

Re: Desktop Connector Location

john.buxtonLVQ8H — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 13:24:29 GMT

Richard, Thanks for the tip on changing path in the Instance.xml file. This has changed the path but I'm still seeing the BIM 360 drive in C:\Users\John.Buxton is this correct?

Re: Desktop Connector Location

leonardo.murte — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 21:31:03 GMT

Hi @john.buxtonLVQ8H

After you change the route in the Instance.xml file, you should see BIM360 in your other hard drive.

If that's not happening just check if the path has been change in the Instance.xml file, then sign out and exit the Desktop connector and open it again, after that you should be able to see it on you other hard drive.

if that doesn't work, try to sign out and exit the app before changing the Instance.xml path.

Re: Desktop Connector Location

jeff_howard1 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:54:21 GMT

I have added a feature request also.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/bim-360-ideas/desktop-connector-local-file-location/idi-p/9814021

Re: Desktop Connector Location

MinhNguyen1 — Thu, 05 May 2022 11:35:04 GMT

It works perfect

thanks a lot

Re: Desktop Connector Location

smithmat — Thu, 05 May 2022 11:43:54 GMT

"Change Workspace" command has been added to the product with the latest release (15.6.0) which is now available for download.

Re: Desktop Connector Location

jeff_howard1 — Thu, 05 May 2022 13:34:43 GMT

The latest version I can see online is March 23, 2022 (v. 15.5.0.1684)

Do you have a link to the new version?

Re: Desktop Connector Location

smithmat — Thu, 05 May 2022 13:36:42 GMT

https://help.autodesk.com/view/CONNECT/ENU/?guid=GUID-03D59AAD-65B0-45E3-84F2-A12AAA5BB267