How to change the install path?

Hello,

The hub looks good, it's very welcome. However it seems to be not possible to select the install path. Can I do that in a config file? (maybe it's not yet exposed).

Regards,

 

Would like to see this feature as well, being able to manually change the installation path.

 

I agree. I install Unity on my D drive but the hub installs to the C drive without an option to change the install path.

 

Thanks for your suggestions. We will try to add this to our upcoming versions of the Hub.

 

Thank you guys! We use a small SSD for the system (c and a large HDD for the data. All unity versions and all projects are located on this drive. I think that a lot of users are doing the same thing, it's better to keep projects on a separate drive.

So yes, this option is crucial.

 

I agree. This is something essential to me. Also, I would like to have the option to keep the downloads for future installs. I live in an area without the option of a fast internet connection. I get 2mbps at the most. For this reason, I keep the installers on hand in case I need to reinstall or install on my laptop. Being able to specify a download location and have an option to select to archive the download for future use would be awesome.

If you guys could add that while adding the option to specify install paths, it would be a huge help. I'm currently working in a configuration where my Unity archives are on my D drive and all of my Unity installations are on my E drive. My C is pretty much reserved for OS stuff.

So path configurations and installer archiving options for the win! heheh

 

+1 vote from me for a selectable install path.

 

+1 from me as well. Unfortunately it is unusable for me like this. Installing stuff on C is a no go.

 

I agree.
+1 vote from me for a selectable install path.

 

Another +1 here. It's my biggest pet peeve with the asset store cache stuff. I actually moved the folders to a different drive and setup a symlink so I wouldn't be loading up my primary SSD that I use for my OS. So yeah, +1 for at least being able to specify Unity install location.

 

+1

 

Having the ability to set both the install path and the download path would be great to have.

 

And in the latest version, you can set the install path! After which Unity Hub installs Unity to the system drive, and writes a single file modules.json into a unity named sub-folder of the the folder that you specified... Oh, but still sets up the "correct link" to Unity.exe as being in the folder that you wanted it in, which of course doesn't work, as it's actually on the system drive.



It's very broken right now.

 

You are clearly experiencing a bug. Are you on Windows or MacOS?
Please send us your log so we can see what went wrong.
Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs

 

Having the exact same issue as NickUK.

Logs attached

 

Same problem on windows. My logs are basically the same. Say stuff about installing the modules file to the path but the main editor folder ends up on the C drive.

I didn't try it but I installed 2018 beta first, not realizing it would not ask me for the install folder. So i uninstalled it.
Found the setting. Set the path. Then reinstalled 2018.
I did not restart UnityHub.

Not sure if any of that might cause it to be in a partial state.

 

Same problem with install folder change still installing on system drive. Included an image to show that is reporting installation on d: drive but it actually installs on c: drive.

 

Trying to uninstall the installations on which Unity thinks are on d: drive fails for both programs.

 

In my case it places a manifest file there only. If I then move the install from the c drive to the created d drive folder it seems ok when opening or creating projects.

 

I ran into the same issue when I attempted to install Unity 2017.4, that it installed to my C: drive even though I had directed it to install to the D: drive.
The temporary fix in Windows 10 that worked for me was:
I had to make sure to move the manifest JSON file that was in D:\Program Files\Unity\2017.4 out of the way first, and remove the D:\Program Files\Unity\2017.4 directory
Then I used

mklink -J "C:\Program Files\Unity\2017.4" "D:\Program Files\Unity\2017.4"

After the hardlink was created I moved the manifest JSON file back into D:\Program Files\Unity\2017.4
and TADA, it works

 

Here is a workaround using symlink to install Unity Hub into another location of your choice, and then Unity 2018 will be installed in the same drive as Unity Hub. Tried and tested. Works for me perfectly.

 

Any word on this? "It's going to happen!" <9 months later> :P

 

Still doesn't have this option... wild.

 

Try harder, it can't take close to year to do such a trivial addition.

 

^Nothing new here?
Unfortunate

 

While you're there adding that, please fix the white screen timeouts:

 

The feature is there just not obvious so it is easy to miss. You would think that when you installed a new version it would ask where to install it. Logical, and common. No, doesn't work that way. Instead, BEFORE doing an install you need to click on the Cog icon in the upper right. This lets you set a default Unity location. Then any install made after you set that will use that base location. Note that it will create a sub folder for the Unity version in that location, but the sub folder will only have a version number, it will not say Unity in it like the older methods. So you will probably want to set your base location to something that says "Unity" so you don't get confused.

EG installing Unity 2018.3b7 with base path set to D:\Program Files, created a folder named D:\Program Files\2018.3.0b7

If you want to install different versions into completely different base locations, then you need to remember to set this each time.

It really is IMHO a silly and awkward way of working and is so against "normal conventions" that it is going to confuse a lot of users who won't even know the feature exists.

 

Thank you jwvanderbeck. I was able to find this setting with your help. Just freed up 9 gigs on my small SSD.

 

Thanks! This answer should be at the top of this thread.

 

My turnaround was letting it download to default C then cut/paste the new version's folder to the desired location, then go back to unity hub and "uninstall" the existent version, and since its not there anymore the "uninstall" will take a couple of seconds and the path will be removed then you can add another version and locate it to where you pasted it.

 

2019.1.0f2 - Still no option to install to other drives.

 

davidnibi : check the little gear icon next to My account at the top right corner to select where to install your editor.

 

Still does not work:


And when installing:


Edit:
Well, it does kinda work... It downloads to the C drive and then installs to the D drive.
It should be better if it will download in the D drive and installed in the D drive.
Because when your other drive is almost full it cannot install because the drive you don't want it to install is almost full. Should be something that can be fixed Unity ^^

 

It would be cool if we could have multiple install paths. I don't have enough room on my ssd for the legacy editors I need

 

Thank you, this is not only easy to miss but poorly labeled as I already looked in there and it didn't make sense that I'd need to set that *before* doing my first install.

Unfortunately as TimTimSch notes above, it still downloads to the system drive first. I had to clear space on my tiny system SSD just to install this. Come on Unity devs, this is way less complicated than just about anything Unity itself does.

 

Be aware that even though I pre-set the Unity Editor path to my D drive, I installed MS VisualStudio CE via the Unity Hub install package selector, and that got installed on *C.* Not super cool, at least it was (relatively) small.

I can confirm that large installation the files downloaded to my system drive (the aforementioned C, which is annoying!) were removed as several gigs freed back up once that process was complete.

 

It downloads in the temp folder. If you can, move it onto another drive. If you have that small space on your current drive, sooner or later you will have problems with other software too. A lot of software writes in the temp folders during work.

 

I've got 42gb free on C, I just don't want anything touching C when I explicitly tell it to touch D. Period.

 

i cannot install because my C drive (SSD) is full and 7 GB left.

why didnt fix this little issue in 2019?

Really poor,

 

I want the editor to download into my C, but no, it can't do that.

 

Hi, my advice is:
1) uinstall all version unity from unity hub
2) download pure Unity install file
3) install unity to the location what you want
4) in unityHub "LOCATE" that instalation

 

cannot believe this is still a problem, i do not have much space on my C:/ drive and therefore i cannot add a version to any other drives on my computer, like whats the point in letting me enter an alternative path if i have to be able to install it on my C anyway, that's missing the entire point, if i could install on my C i wouldn't care about putting it on other drives. smh unity if we need to use your hub then at least let it work

 

you want to launch a rocket into space??? it's just a little problem, why after two years there is no update or solution for this .... ?

 

Uhm... 'Adds secondary install location' doesn't fix the problem of being able to select the download location of the Unity version, it still is being downloaded to the C:\ drive.