[Desktop] Restore Cache Location Specification

[Talavar]

I run on a machine with a small SSD for my OS and critical applications.

In previous versions of Spotify I have set my cache to my larger hard drive. Now this is no longer possible.

Now I am constantly having to manually clear my cache and am unable to specify where I want the files to be kept.

This needs to be restored.

[maurotk]

Yes, I have the same problem. version 1.0.95.289

[rossisdead]

Is this ever going to get fixed? The offline storage location works only for playlists you specifically mark for download. Streamed songs still end up in the regular C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Spotify\Data\ directory. Since the codebase already has an implementation for reading files from another location/moving files to another location for downloaded tracks, it shouldn't take that long to implement this for the streamed file cache.

[widget_pls]

Windows 10 has symlinks now. While Spotify is not running, you can move the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Spotify\Data folder to somewhere else, then in the command prompt as an administrator, run something like mklink /d "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Spotify\Data" "D:\AppData\Spotify cache\Data" but with your own paths.

Seems to be working well enough for me so far. I'm pretty sure Spotify can't tell it's not on the C: drive.

[Sh1kuren]

They said "this feature is returning in the 1.0.9 Desktop update.", but i don't see that in the new desktop app. 😞
When you will add the option to change the cache (trash) location from C (SSD) to D (HDD) ?