How to Move the Adobe Animate Temp Folder
83Adobe Animate doesn't let you change where your temp folder is located which can be an issue for larger projects, or if you have a small boot drive. However, using the trickery of symlinks, we can fool Adobe into putting the temp files wherever we want!
I ran into this issue personally when working on some larger projects, and couldn't find a good solution anywhere else. So I decided to try out using a symbolic link, and it WORKED! I can now render in peace. Hopefully Adobe will eventually fix their odd multi-step rendering process (project → swf → mov → mp4) but for now at least we have a workaround.
Contents:
0:00 - Introduction
0:25 - Solution 1: Render in Chunks
0:42 - Solution 2: Move tmp folder
1:10 - Step 1: Create the new temp folder
1:32 - Step 2: Find and remove old temp folder
2:37 - Step 3: Create a symlink
3:54 - Step 4: Make sure it works
4:36 - How to undo the change if needed
4:53 - Outro