# How to change the project directory?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-change-the-project-directory/25257>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [May 23, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-change-the-project-directory/25257 "2019-05-23T08:50:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![kyle\_dar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@kyle\_dar](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kyle_dar)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-change-the-project-directory/25257/1 "2019-05-23T08:50:24Z")

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Hello, everyone. How to change the project directory? I’d like to save project data to another partition rather than the default one, but I don’t know how. Any help will be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![ashwin.m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@ashwin.m](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ashwin.m)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-change-the-project-directory/25257/2 "2020-12-23T10:23:45Z")

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Hey,  
I am too looking for this approach to check if ignition does not lag much. Is there a way?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-change-the-project-directory/25257/3 "2020-12-23T13:09:05Z")

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You can do this on Linux by mounting another filesystem at the project directory.

My condolences if you are not using Linux.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Collins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.collins/32/13497_2.png) [@Kevin.Collins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Collins)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-change-the-project-directory/25257/4 "2020-12-23T17:25:32Z")

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Though I agree with @pturmel, I will mention that you should be to either symlink or mount a device directly at a folder location (instead of a drive letter) even on Windows.

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**Author:** ![ryanjmclaughlin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryanjmclaughlin/32/4318_2.png) [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-change-the-project-directory/25257/5 "2020-12-24T01:41:58Z")

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You can modify the data dir in the ignition.conf file, however this would include the entire data dir, not just hte project folder.