Moving the Navisworks Cache and BIM 360 Glue Cache to Secondary Hard Drive

6 years ago
on What Revit Wants blog
Moving the Navisworks Cache and BIM 360 Glue Cache to Secondary Hard Drive

Having recently installed some more storage hardware, and previously posted about moving folders with symbolic links, I then decided to move my BIM 360 Glue cache folder and Navisworks Cache folder to a secondary hard drive. I did this using symbolic links.

You need to:

  • start a Command Prompt as Administrator
  • use the commands shown below

Moving BIM 360 Glue cache storage location:

if exist "%localappdata%AutodeskBim360Glue 2016LocalCache" rename "%localappdata%AutodeskBim360Glue 2016LocalCache" bim360glue2016.old
mklink /d "%localappdata%AutodeskBim360Glue 2016LocalCache" R:BIM360Glue2016
if not exist R:BIM360Glue2016 MD R:BIM360Glue2016
robocopy /mir "%localappdata%AutodeskBim360Glue 2016bim360glue2016.old" R:BIM360Glue2016

Moving Navisworks cache storage location:

if exist "%localappdata%AutodeskNavisworks 2019LocalCache" rename "%localappdata%AutodeskNavisworks 2019LocalCache" Navisworks2019Cache.old
mklink /d "%localappdata%AutodeskNavisworks...

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