First, read what I wrote at
Cannot create/open new file (solved) on how to clean up the folder for temporary files and other folders to get back disk space.
UltraEdit uses like most other programs the directory specified by the environment variable
TEMP as directory for temporary files. If you want to move the temp directory for UltraEdit and all other programs to a different drive, you have to open
Start - Control Panel - System - Advanced system settings - button
Environment Variables.
Hint: Start - Control Panel - System can be fast opened by pressing the WINDOWS logo key, hold it and press additionally the key BREAK (German: Pause).
If you look carefully you will find entries named
TEMP and
TMP at the upper field (lower field on Windows 2000). These two variables specify the directory for temporary files for YOU, the current user. You can change/edit its value to a different directory.
In the bottom field (upper field on Windows 2000) there could be also environment variables named
TEMP and
TMP. These variables are used for applications and services running with the SYSTEM account for example before a user has logged in (signed in). You can change the values of the system
TEMP and
TMP variables too, but never delete them.
After changing the environment variables, you have to restart Windows. You should also write down the paths before you change it, because after restart of Windows you should delete the old temp directory completely because it is not used anymore.
If you don't want to change the standard temporary folders of Windows and you just want to use a different folder for temporary files when using UltraEdit you should read in help of UltraEdit the page titled
INI File Selection and Advanced Settings. There you can read that it is possible to specify a directory for temporary files by manually adding to
uedit32.ini or
uedit32u.ini or
uedit64.ini or
uedit64u.ini or
ue.ini (file name depends on version of UltraEdit) following:
[Settings]
Temp File Dir=D:\Temp
Important: Don't use double quotes and don't specify a trailing backslash. The environment variable
TEMP holds the path to the temp folder also without double quotes and without a
\ at the end.
The full qualified file name of the INI file used by UltraEdit or UEStudio can be seen at
Advanced - Settings or Configuration - Application layout - Advanced in UltraEdit / UEStudio.
Well, exactly this help page about the location of the INI of UltraEdit-32 and UEStudio and the advanced settings not available via the configuration dialog or a context menu must be completely updated - UltraEdit-16 is history, UEStudio INI file and environment variable name is missing, many of the existing advanced settings can be modified now in one of the configuration dialogs, and some really new advanced settings ("secret" developer settings) are missing. Troy from IDM support has promised me to do that till next major release.
The update of the referred help page has been done by Troy for UE v13.00 and UEStudio v6.20.
