Is 2026, and still lots .IMS CACHE files keep creating in OS Drive Common folder PREMIERE

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Hi I know this may sound like an old thread and Loong time PP user. I have a dedicated second drive for my MEDIA CACHE and other stuff, selected from the preferences in Premiere. That part works fine with all peak,CMA files etc. anyway I noticed premiere keep creating these thousands of .IMS files inside the Windows “App data/common” folder, even after changing the destination in preferences. Is this normal? I would love to move it if possible.
Thanks

mattchristensen1 · Answer

​@DPvideowhat you’re describing is working as expected. As the Media Cache is currently architected, Premiere needs to count on those .ims files being there, and so doesn’t allow writing them to an external drive. All other media cache file types as you noted do support writing to an external.I’m sorry it’s not clear in the preferences that this is working this way, but, I can tell you it is how it is supposed to work.

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