I want to move my Visual Studio Documents folder, $(VisualStudioDir), but Settings folder regenerates...

_{Friday, May 6, 2016 6:52 AM}

I want to move my Visual Studio Documents folder by editing the value of macro $(VisualStudioDir)

Visual Studio Documents folder installed to directory "c:\users\user\documents\visual studio 2015" [olddir].

I want to move it to another directory [newdir].

I have moved files of [olddir] to [newdir] and edited project properties so project, debug, release, etc output goes to [newdir].

But subfolders "Settings" and "Backups" regenerate in [olddir].

I want to change the value of macro $(VisualStudioDir) which directs this output.

Tried Properties sheet Macro dialog - could not edit $(VisualStudioDir).

Macro $(VisualStudioDir) must be written somewhere - where, and how do I edit it?

I have Community edition. Do I need a higher edition to edit macro $(VisualStudioDir) in the macro dialog?

Aleph-1,

Visual Studio 2015 Community edition on Windows 10 64-bit PC,

miserably contained within a pesky dialog whilst in sight of the infinite

_{Friday, May 6, 2016 8:48 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

you shouln't change the makro. Instead you should do these steps:

Go to Tools -> Options: Projects and Solutions -> General and change the locations for projects and templates
Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0 and change the paths in there, too (That was DefaultNewProjItemLocation and VisualStudioLocation for me in my tests).

That should do the trick.

With kind regards,

Konrad

_{Thursday, June 2, 2016 3:14 AM}

Konrad,

I missed your response until now - thanks for answering.

I have to think about this carefully first.

Richard Davey

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