SQL Developer and Windows XP Profile space
AndrewDDec 15 2010 — edited Dec 15 2010I work in a secure environment where my laptop is fairly tightly controlled. In particular all laptop users are restricted to a Windows user profile space of 20Mb. This is space in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data. This is to stop people building up huge profiles that take an age to download and synchronise with the logon servers.
SQL Developer writes stuff in this directory (as does the Data Modeler and JDeveloper). In particular windowinglayout.xml is growing and is now 1Mb in size. I am running out of space in my profile and it will not be long before I am at my limit. The size of the file seems mostly to be down to the content of the element /LayoutInfo/clientLayoutData/global/view-data which has grown enormous. Much of the content seems to relate to connections and folders and I have tried to delete some connections but that seems not to have made any difference to the size of the file.
Can the content of this file be controlled? Is it possible to relocate these files somewhere else so that they don't cause me a problem? Are there other possible solutions?
Thanks in anticipation.
Andrew