Schonhose

While working on the Googlemaps addon I thought it would be useful to re-install Google Earth. Last time I removed it from my computer due to the amount of space it took on my C: drive, which is rather small. I was rather hopeful Google would provide an easy way to change the location of the cache to another drive.

Well, turns out I was wrong. But there is a way to do it, but it requires two hacks in the Windows Registry. The keys you need to change, as well as the location are displayed below:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Earth Plus]
“CachePath”=”F:\\Google Earth Cache”
“KMLPath”=”F:\\Google Earth Cache”

As you can see I moved the Google Earth Cache from the C: to my F: drive which has lots of space left. I wonder when Google will implement an easy way in the options panel of Google Earth. In the meantime this hack will work. Remember to make a copy of your registry to be on the safe side.