idea Modify Location of Temp directory in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Modify Location of Temp directory

PaulPrevedoros1 — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 02:16:03 GMT

I like your extended messaging in the geoprocessing window, but in the messaging the following message was present

Temporary data will be created in C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\ArcGISProTemp66476\s81164d47_6e4e_472e_9c75_5d5d03069b7

55,942 MB of temporary storage is estimated to be needed. 86,573 MB of storage is currently available.

I could not find any mechanism to change the location of this directory I look in environment variables and in the Project options

May we have a capacity to do this

Re: Modify Location of Temp directory

PaulPrevedoros1 — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 02:27:28 GMT

To all I found the location

Cheers

Re: Modify Location of Temp directory

PaulPrevedoros1 — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 04:18:33 GMT

2nd Update despite performing the change to local directory as above (and restarting program as stated)

When processing a distance allocation process I still got

Temporary data will be created in C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\ArcGISProTemp78368\sbb3a674e_b846_4b90_a68c_bb6f6e6de7a7

55,942 MB of temporary storage is estimated to be needed. 86,408 MB of storage is currently available.

Cheers

Re: Modify Location of Temp directory

ElizabethGraham — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 16:42:01 GMT

Hi Paul,

You can set a system environment variable to change the location the distance tools, and other tools that use parallel processing, write.

Distance Allocation help documentation:

Liz

Re: Modify Location of Temp directory - Status changed to: Already Offered

KoryKramer — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:26:06 GMT

This is documented in the help that Liz shared above.

This had previously been logged as a bug with technical support, and that bug was closed, guiding users to set the temp directory as a system environment variable that Pro respects: https://support.esri.com/en/bugs/nimbus/QlVHLTAwMDExMjAyOQ==

[BUG-000112029: Unable to set the location of the temporary directory used by ArcGIS Pro.]

Re: Modify Location of Temp directory

KoryKramer — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:22:44 GMT

Please refer to https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/enable-setting-location-of-temporary-directory-in/idi-p/1191319 This work is underway.