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Changing location of Postman's data directory


My company has applied a max size limit on the Windows %APPDATA% folder. I checked and found Postman is the largest user of the directory. Is there anyway I can do to make Postman use a different data directory? I have looked around the Postman UI, but couldn't find anything useful.


Solution

  • I am not sure about the data that Postman stores. But the app (every version) gets installed in the appdata folder.

    This Postman community post tells what you probably noticed yourself: You can't install in another directory. But in the following thread, it was recently posted that you can just run the app after moving the folder from the appdata folder. I can confirm that. The Postman updater gets a bit confused the first time. It does appear to install new versions in whatever folder you moved the app to. I think you will have to update some shortcuts left and right to make it work smoothly.