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Low on Disk Space

TooncesToonces Posts: 919
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I moved my content to my non-SSD drive. However I'm still running out of room on my SSD. I investigated and found it's because of DIM Downloads folder (attached).

Does this ever purge? Can I get DIM to use a folder on my other drive or is it always the C drive? Can I delete these files manually?

Thanks!

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980

    DIM the program and a couple of config files must live on your C: drive.  You can configure DIM to download to any location you like, including external drives, etc. (I have a 1TB drive I sue for this so I can install content on eitehr computer I have).  You can tell DIM to delete after install (a check box at bottom of the 'to install' tab.  I'm leery about the next part - you can delete the downloads manually, but I am not sure if that will also prod DIM into wanting to download it again - I am not sure of how DIM tracks that, so maybe manually delete one product (a small one?) and see first?  Try just the .zip, then the .dsx.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    SimonJM said:

    DIM the program and a couple of config files must live on your C: drive.  You can configure DIM to download to any location you like, including external drives, etc. (I have a 1TB drive I sue for this so I can install content on eitehr computer I have).  You can tell DIM to delete after install (a check box at bottom of the 'to install' tab.  I'm leery about the next part - you can delete the downloads manually, but I am not sure if that will also prod DIM into wanting to download it again - I am not sure of how DIM tracks that, so maybe manually delete one product (a small one?) and see first?  Try just the .zip, then the .dsx.

    Deleting manually from the downloads folder is pretty much the same as using the 'delete after install' option.  Once an item is installed, DIM doesn't pay attention to where the zip is.  But if you need to reinstall the item and the zip isn't found locally, it will want to redownload it.

  • TooncesToonces Posts: 919

    Ah nice. Never noticed that checkbox on Install tab before. I'll delete manually since the checkbox is not retroactive.

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,077
    edited January 2017

    You will still be better off to have DIM download to something other than a small SSD.

    You can also physically move the downloads directory with Windows Explorer and jusr update the location within DIM.

    Post edited by fastbike1 on
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