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Thursday, April 11, 2019 8:05 AM
Hi,
I have VS 2017 installed on my C drive (windows 10). I would like to know if I can install VS 2019 on another drive (T) without headache?
Best Regards.
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Thursday, April 11, 2019 8:36 AM
Hi raysefo,
Welcome to the MSDN forum.
You can reduce the installation footprint of Visual Studio on your system drive by changing the location for some of its files. Specifically, you can use a different location for the download cache, shared components, SDKs, and tools files. But as same as VS 2017, there are some tools and SDKs that have different rules on where they can be installed. Such tools and SDKs are installed on your system drive even if you choose another location.
So you can choose D/F drive as a default installation location via VS installer as I shown below:
more rules, see: /en-us/visualstudio/install/change-installation-locations?view=vs-2019 .
please give me a feedback if it is helpful for you.
Sincerely
May
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Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:43 AM
Hi May,
Thank you for your reply. I would like to install VS 2019 enterprise or professional and specifically core and Xamarin. How much space should I have on my C drive? Since I have VS 2017 Enterprise is installed on C drive, there have to be common tools so it should take less space I guess hopefully :)
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 2:02 AM
Hi raysefo,
Sorry for the reply delays,
You can check the specific space that these workloads could be required in lower right corner of window. if you has changed the installation location, there would be shown you automatically how much space that a part of components which alternative stored and required in a custom drive. Please see the screenshot I shared below:
So you can repro my step to check the space required actually in C drive.
Please feel free t to let me know if it unblock to you J
Sincerely
May
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019 9:12 AM
Hi raysefo，
Is there any update for this? I wondering if my workaround is helpful or not. We are also excepted your reply with newer progress for that.
May
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