Symbolic link to shift studio session data to other drive?

Shujath · 2025-08-12T10:43:16+00:00

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Hi, I want to ask here if Bluebeam product support creating symbolic link for the studio session files being stored at C disk.

The need arises because session files are taking up a large space on C disk. I am looking for options to shift this data to other drives and make up space.

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Isaac.Harned

The location should depend on where you uploaded them from. Let's say you uploaded from network drive location, when you close the session, it should give you the option to download the files, in which case it will default to where you got them from. The option I think that makes this happen is the "Overwrite existing". Let me know if I am thinking of this the wrong way though.

Shujath

I think you are aware that all the files loaded in a studio session are stored in studio.bluebeam.com folder in C drive where the product is installed and it goes to more than 100GB sometimes depending on the number of sessions. A symbolic link lets the users shifts the actual files while making Bluebeam believe it is at o

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