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Plan
Premium
Country
Belgium
Device
Lenovo Legion Y520 (laptop)
Operating System
Arch Linux
My Question or Issue
I tell Spotify to download all my liked songs to a different drive (/media/<myseconddrive>/spotify/), but it downloads all my songs (about 10GB) to the default location (~/.cache/spotify/Data/) instead of the one I chose in settings.
This used to work fine, but today I noticed my main drive had NO free space left, and I saw that ~/.cache/spotify/Data/ was 10GB in size.
The file ~/.config/spotify/prefs tells me storage.location="/media/<myseconddrive>/spotify", which is correct.
This is a huge problem for me because my main drive is a small SSD so I need to put all my songs on my second drive.
Solved! Go to Solution.
I'm not sure how this second drive is installed, but perhaps if Spotify can't find this second drive sometimes, it uses the default location and ignores the prefs file?
This should at least stop the 'Data' directory filling your home drive.
cd ~/.cache/spotify/
mv Data /media/<seconddrive>/spotify/
ln -s /media/<seconddrive>/spotify/Data Data
In a ideal world I'd get a larger internal drive, or perhaps there are other things you can move to the second drive to make more room for Spotify cache.
I'm not sure how this second drive is installed, but perhaps if Spotify can't find this second drive sometimes, it uses the default location and ignores the prefs file?
This should at least stop the 'Data' directory filling your home drive.
cd ~/.cache/spotify/
mv Data /media/<seconddrive>/spotify/
ln -s /media/<seconddrive>/spotify/Data Data
In a ideal world I'd get a larger internal drive, or perhaps there are other things you can move to the second drive to make more room for Spotify cache.