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PyCharm: Change the location of .PyCharmXX

PyCharm: Change the location of .PyCharmXX

In the good practice of IntelliJ application, PyCharm creates its own cache directory in your home. Mind you this can get really big (300Mb+) and if you sync your home with a networked drive, you'll get penalised (time-wise). Following this discovery (my login/logout time is up to

IntelliJ: Change the default cache location (e.g. .IntelliJIdeaXX)

IntelliJ: Change the default cache location (e.g. .IntelliJIdeaXX)

Everything started from a problem I had with PyCharm, where it would create a ".PyCharm30" directory in my home, which would end up being about 300Mb, with a lot of files (2000+files, approx 200 directories). This gets taxed since my home dire gets synced at login/logout