NI taking up too much space. Moving NI Package from C Drive to D Drive?

[Gyoza]

Hi there,

As noted by the title, I downloaded a LabVIEW 2020 and Drivers Community Version. My teacher notified my class to download LabVIEW but didn't state any further details. While downloading, I noticed there are Add-Ons. At first, I downloaded the whole thing, which fills up my C drive to maximum capacity. During the second installation, I made sure to download each one by one, cautious of the hard drive space.

I looked up on the internet how to move documents to D drive, including the NI community. However, most of the solutions are limited or not working.

I did change my settings Storage into the D drive, to no avail.

I wonder if anyone has occurred this and solved the capacity problem. I would appreciate your help. Thank you.

[rolfk]

You can't easily change the location where software is installed under Windows. But Windows supports symbolic links. So while you can let it appear as if everything is installed under "C:Program Files (x86)National Instruments" you can in fact create a symbolic link there that points to "D:\National Instruments" for instance.

mkdir "D:\National Instruments"

mklink /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\ National Instruments" "D:\National Instruments"

You should however start the command shell as administrator to allow mklink to work properly.