How to disable or specify a different directory for temporary files in PHPStorm?

Question

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Good evening!
I encountered such a situation that when working with PHPStorm, it creates its temporary project files about ~ 500 mb in the user's temporary directory. Like an SSD user, I'm greedy :) and I want to move this folder to a virtual disk in frames or turn it off completely so that RAM allows you to keep everything in yourself.
Tell me how to disable or specify a different directory for temporary files in PHPStorm?
Thank you!

Answer 1

SSD for more than 2 years, did not transfer anything anywhere, I use phpstorm all the time, forget about it

Answer 2

Move the folder to the location you want. Open a command prompt and do
mklink /D Ссылка Назначениеwhere - Link is the name of the new symbolic link.
Destination - the path (relative or absolute) to which the new link refers.

mklink /D C:\Users\{UserName}\.WebIde70 {путь к папке, куда перенесли}

Answer 3

Haven't tried it myself (hasn't needed it), but you can change
idea.config.path which is in PHPStorm_HOME\bin\idea.properties. This should help move the entire user settings folder to another location.
Source

Answer 4

You are not the only one))) Welcome. You can subscribe here for the development of such functionality. As you can see, there are already enough people there. True, they have a different purpose for this removal)))

Answer 5

You can try to move the folder to a virtual disk and create a link.

Answer 6

It’s better not to touch it, changes in the config will be overwritten when updating, in extreme cases you can do as @zxspectr said