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Changing the download location for VMware Update Manager

This article provides instructions to manually change the location patches and plugins are downloaded to in Update Manager.

This change may be necessary for many reasons, including disk space issues.

To change the default download location for patches:

Open the vci-integrity.xml file. The default file location is C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\vci-integrity.xml.
Search for patchStore. You see something similar to:

<patchStore>C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Data\</patchStore>

Note: Your new directory is empty and does not contain valid metadata. Copy the old directory's data or run the VMware Update Manager download update.
Replace the location with the preferred location.
Save, close the file, and reboot.

To change the download location for plugins:

Open the vci-integrity.xml file. The default file location is C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\vci-integrity.xml.
Search for docRootHostUpdates.

You see something similar to:

<docRootHostUpdates>
<namespace>"/vci/hostupdates"</namespace>
<path>C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Data\</path>
</docRootHostUpdates>
Replace the location with the preferred location.
Save, close the file, and reboot.

Note: Do not remove the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Data\ directory.

You may remove the contents of the following directories but you must leave the directory structure intact:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Data\hostupdate
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Data\vm-patch-binaries

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