Move the IDE 2.3.10 to another drive

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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Due to space limitations on drive c I am trying to move the IDE to my f: drive. I have changed the file arduino-cli.yaml at C:\Users\HPcompaq.arduinoIDE.The changes are:

directories:
builtin:
libraries: C:\Users\HPcompaq\AppData\Local\Arduino15\libraries
data: f:\Arduino15
downloads: f:Arduino15\staging
user: g:\ARDUINO_INO_260131A

This works fine, the original folder was C:\Users\HPcompaq\AppData\Local\Arduino15. the problem I have is there is another folder C:\Users\HPcompaq\AppData\Local\arduino using 9GB and updates everytime I compile a sketch. I can find no reference to this folder anywhere. Can anyone tell me what this folder is and can I redirect it to the f: drive.

Ta in advance :)

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That's where all your cores and archived compiles reside. I had trouble with space, and deleted about 120GB of data from these (and more) folders. Somewhere in this forum is my topic and the help I received.

Found it: IDE 2.3.9 tree - for manual deleting files/folders

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Ta for that. I used Ccleaner and gained around a GB. I had an earlier IDE installed, now un-installed. Just compiled another sketch and C:\Users\HPcompaq\AppData\Local\arduino\sketches still updates. Your earlier post raises some interesting questions. Anymore thoughts anyone?

4

The link was not about ccleaner. It was about the caching of unused cores and compiled sketches.

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On looking deeper the C:\Users\HPcompaq\AppData\Local\arduino\sketches folder holds the compiled binaries. Looks like I need to re direct that?

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We were typing at the same instance. The Ccleaner was a comment that may help others :)

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arduino\sketchess the sketch build cache.

@beez803
You can change its location in arduino-cli.yaml, e.g.:

build_cache:
  path: F:\arduino-build-cache
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That fixed it. Thanks to all for the comments. Appreciated :)