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How can I change where my assets install from the Unity store?

The reason:
I have a very small boot drive (C drive) with only 20GB left and just got a new SSD (U drive) 500GB to put Unity into and store/download my assets on that drive.

I know that by default, Unity store assets install to the User folder in (%appdata%), but I want to put the install location to my (U drive) SSD.

Any ideas on how to do this? I saw that it was brought up in very old posts from 2015, but from all that I am still not able to find a solution.

Thanks!

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Unfortunately it’s not something you can change in Unity settings, it’s an often requested feature, though!

For the moment there’s a workaround that you can do by creating a windows symbolic link to ‘trick’ Unity into looking to another folder. There’s a full guide on how to do it here: Creating Symlinks to Solve the Unity Asset Store Download Problem — Gary Pettie

Be sure to back up your folder before attempting it, just in case something goes wrong.

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