To change the location of the VarwinData folder, which stores all user information and projects, to another location, the following steps should be performed:

  1. Move the VarwinData folder to the desired location on your computer (you can even move it to another disk!), for example, let's move it to “D:\VarwinData17”. Remember the new path

    By default, VarwinData is stored in the folder 

    C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\VarwinData17
  2. Open a command prompt

  3. In the window that opens, type

    mklink /J "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\VarwinData17" "D:\VarwinData17"

    an explanation:

    • mklink - creates a symbolic link to the file
    • /J - creating a hard link pointing to a directory
    • "C:\Users\``USER``\AppData\Roaming\VarwinData17" - specifying the original path of the VarwinData folder, where ``USER`` is the name of your profile on the PC
    • "D:\VarwinData17" - example of the path where you moved VarwinData to
  4. Once the required paths have been entered and double-checked, press the Enter button. In the command line you will see a message that the connection has been successfully created

Now the path “C:\Users\``USER`\AppData\Roaming\VarwinData17” does not contain the folder, but only a link to it. The folder itself is now located in “D:\VarwinData17”

If you change the content in one of the folders, it changes in the other folder as well