Home: Is it possible to move the .nuget folder from my documents?

[tomkuijsten]

There is this folder c:\users\myname\.nuget which is created when I build something in visual studio 2015. Is there an option to move this folder?

[yishaigalatzer]

Yes - as of NuGet 3.2 you can do that:

NuGet clients support specifying a global NUGET_PACKAGES environment variable to specify the location of the shared global packages folder used in project.json managed projects with Windows 10 tools v1.1.

https://docs.nuget.org/release-notes/nuget-3.2

We are also working on a way to define it in nuget.config and have all build tasks and project systems respect it, but since that is not depending just on NuGet I cannot comment on if and so a date when this will happen

[tomkuijsten]

Thanks for the quick reply. Wouldn't hurt to mention the name of the folder ".nuget" in the documentation. I tried several searches, but didn't find an answer or pointer to the nuget release notes. It's hard to search for something if you only have it's folder name.

[yishaigalatzer]

Thanks for the feedback. I don't quite follow what you are suggesting to add, but you can follow the link on the bot to of the doc and suggest a change in the form of a PR :)

Sent from my Windows Phone

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Subject: Re: [Home] Is it possible to move the .nuget folder from my documents? (#1905)

Thanks for the quick reply. Wouldn't hurt to mention the name of the folder ".nuget" in the documentation. I tried several searches, but didn't find an answer or pointer to the nuget release notes. It's hard to search for something if you only have it's folder name.

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[tomkuijsten]

Haha :) my bad. I wanted to say that it would be wise to add ".nuget" as text in that release note, so google will find it when I search for that name. But you're right, I should suggest a change myself.

[tomkuijsten]

I tried it and it affects more then I expected. All nuget packages are installed in the NUGET_PACKAGES folder, including the packages in packages.config. Result is that all references point to this new directory, which is not allowed by our development guidelines. I thought it would only affect the project.json ones, which don't have hard reference paths (and won't be confliciting with out development guidelines).

[tomkuijsten]

And again, my bad. I had some nuget.config file with a redirect for the package folder. Removed it and works like a charm now.

[yishaigalatzer]

Awesome. Thanks!

Sent from my Windows Phone

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From: Tom Kuijstenmailto:[email protected]
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Subject: Re: [Home] Is it possible to move the .nuget folder from my documents? (#1905)

And again, my bad. I had some nuget.config file with a redirect for the package folder. Removed it and works like a charm now.

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