Description of the issue: How to change default location of cache folder. See additional info below. How can this issue be reproduced? Expected result: Brave Version( check About Brave): 1.2.4.2 Additional Information: I would like to change the cache folder location to a Ram drive. Tried using mlink with J & D switches but Brave recreates the cache folder in the default location when restarted. I am new to Brave as of 1/1/2020 transitioning from Chrome. You can change the cache location in Chrome using mlink. I’m assuming it should work on Brave as well since it is built on Chromium. I hope this is a resolved issue and someone can point me in the right direction or let me know the steps to successfully relocate the cache. Regards, Forlution

@fanboynz Thanks! I got it working. I was renaming the cache to cache.old instead of deleting it. Here are my steps to others for future reference. -Shutdown Brave and make sure no copies of brave.exe is running in the background. (Rightclick the Brave icon in the system tray and click Exit) -Create new Cache folder in desired location -Copy contents of Brave Cache into the new cache folder (Optional) Recommended… -Delete Brave Cache folder -Open Command Prompt with Admin privileges -Run mklink (Sample) mklink /D “C:\Users\UserFolderName\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache” “X:\newcache”

Can you paste your exact commands you’re using?

I was able to create a remote cache dir I deleted my cache dir. Created D:\cache2 folder Open command line (admin mode) mklink /D "C:\Users\mp3ge\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser-Beta\User Data\Default\Cache" "D:\cache2" When I opened Brave, and browsed a few sites. D:\cache2 was populated with cache files

Hi, this cache is more permanent o it will be temporary? I need something more permanent, I want to use this browser for a Browser Game and I want to store in cache because I have a bad Internet conection, any tips/help?

It depends… If you are creating the new cache on another local drive then yes, it will be permanent. If you want to store your cache on a ram drive and not lose the contents when you shutdown then you have to use a ram disk utility that will save the contents to an image at shutdown. I use Softperfect Ram Disk but there are others that you can check out like Dataram Ramdisk.

I have to try this metod, thanks! Because this browser is based in chromium I found that can be work with this command line in the executable direct access: “C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe” --disk-cache-dir=“C:\Users\User-folder\personal-folder” --disk-cache-size=2000000000 But the cache size command it seems that maybe don’t work like as it is supposed

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Forlution January 15, 2020, 2:03pm 3

Thanks @fanboynz

mklink /D “C:\Users\Forlution\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Cache” “X:\Cache_B”

The link gets created but as soon as you start up Brave it deletes the link and recreates a new cache folder.

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