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leoferrareto
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8 years ago
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Change the local cache on PowerBI Desktop

Hello everyone, I wonder if you have any possibility to change where PowerBI Desktop caches. I have a flash disk and a larger storage, I installed PowerBI on disk D of greater storage to leave disk C...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    leoferrareto,

    This is English forum, please post question in English. I translate your question using Google translator and it seems that  you install Power BI Desktop in disk D. During the installation of Power BI Desktop, you can change Power BI Desktop installation location.


    But please note that Mashup Engine stores Power BI caching files in your user appData local directory, which is not necessarily the drive where you installed PowerBI Desktop. You can follow the guide in this blog to clear the cache.


    Regards,
    Lydia

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Anonymous
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8 years ago

leoferrareto,

This is English forum, please post question in English. I translate your question using Google translator and it seems that  you install Power BI Desktop in disk D. During the installation of Power BI Desktop, you can change Power BI Desktop installation location.


But please note that Mashup Engine stores Power BI caching files in your user appData local directory, which is not necessarily the drive where you installed PowerBI Desktop. You can follow the guide in this blog to clear the cache.


Regards,
Lydia

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bn8959
Regular Visitor
7 years ago

You can use NTFS mount points to achieve this - in disk management add a mount point for your faster drive to the path C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power BI Desktop\Cache.

You will need to delete the contents of the Cache folder first. Plus all the cache files will end up on the root of the fast drive (no way round this). But it is a way to get the cache files on the right drive.