Running out of disk space on C drive

Question

Hi, I'm currently running Studio 2014 in Windows 7, and use a 128 GB SSD disk as my C drive. I keep my O/S there and some software (e.g. MS Office, SDL Trados Studio). I store all my projects and other data on my D drive, which is a 1TB regular hard disk. 
 My problem is that Studio saves temporary files in a temp folder on the C drive (C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\), and since I work on quite large projects sometimes it doesn't take long until the C drive is full and I have to manually remove most of the (very large) temp files. 
 Is there no way I can specify a different temp folder on another drive? If I install Studio on my D drive, will Studio still save the temp files on the C drive, or in a temp folder on the D drive? I'm going bananas over this so if anyone has any advice it is much appreciated.

Jesse Good · Accepted Answer

Hi Anders,

Yes this is possible. Just change the path in your environmental variables:
answers.microsoft.com/.../19f13330-dde1-404c-aa27-a76c0b450818

Taken from the above link:
1. Right click on Computer and click on Properties. In the resulting window with the basic information about your computer
2. Click on Advanced system settings on the left panel resulting in a dialog box click on the Advanced tab a
3. Click on the button near the bottom labeled Environment Variables.
4. You may see both TMP and TEMP listed in the section labeled User variables for (account). That's the common location; each different login account is assigned its own temporary location.
5. In the Variable value Edit box you may specify the path to the directory that Windows and many other programs will use for temporary files.

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Running out of disk space on C drive