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The following instructions are intended only for advanced users who are comfortable editing text-based configuration files. You should not expect help from Adobe if you choose to enable this undocumented feature; the developers are probably still testing it before enabling it for normal users. Proceed at your own risk.
Scenario: I am using Lightroom CC Desktop on a Windows 10 laptop (Surface Book). This laptop has a 256 GB O/S SSD, a 500 GB USB external SSD, and a 6 TB USB external HDD.
By default, Lightroom only offers to save smart preview files to my C: partition ("Store a copy of all smart previews locally on "C:". I wanted to move the previews to an alternate location. Today, while trying to fix a sync issue, I stumbled upon FileManagementSettings.lrpref. In this file, I discovered that the developers have helpfully created an undocumented feature to specify an alternate location for the previews.
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Thank you for posting this!
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There is no into _proxyStorageVolumeGuid in my FileManagementSettings.lrpref file. Not sure what to do
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Yes. Still relavent today and thank you for posting this!