Moving the Revit CollaborationCache Folder to a Secondary Hard Drive

Moving the Revit CollaborationCache Folder to a Secondary Hard Drive

If you are still running a relatively small SSD (like 512gb), you might see that your C drive fills up pretty quickly while working on a large BIM 360 Design Revit cloud worksharing project. See below image, where the CollaborationCache folder is using almost 50gb of space on my machine:

 

While I realise that the SSD is the best place to have that data in terms of performance, if you don’t have the space available you may consider moving your CollaborationCache folder to a secondary, larger hard drive. I used a symbolic link to do this, with the script below:

if exist "%localappdata%AutodeskRevitAutodesk Revit 2018CollaborationCache" rename "%localappdata%AutodeskRevitAutodesk Revit 2018CollaborationCache" CollaborationCache.old
mklink /d "%localappdata%AutodeskRevitAutodesk Revit 2018CollaborationCache" E:C4R
if not exist E:C4R MD E:C4R
robocopy /mir "%localappdata%AutodeskRevitAutodesk Revit 2018CollaborationCache.old" E:C4R

 

This creates a folder…

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