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How to use separate cache directories for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, Creo Elements/Pro and Creo Parametric

Modified: 23-Jul-2025   


Applies To

  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 13.0
  • Windchill PDM Essentials 10.1 to 12.0
  • Windchill ProjectLink 9.1 to 12.1
  • Pro/INTRALINK 8.x + 9.1 to 12.0
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
  • Creo+
  • Creo+

Description

  • Is there a way to separate cache directories for Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, Creo Elements/Pro and Creo Parametric
  • How to set the default workspace cache location of a Creo Parametric session connected to Wiindchill PDMLink
  • How to use multiple Creo releases linked to Windchill on the same machine
  • Cannot work on different workspaces in multiple Creo sessions on same workstation
  • How to separate the local caches when endusers have to connect to multiple Windchill PDMLink servers from the same Creo Parametric installation
  • Error "Cache sharing not supported, change the cache location to a different directory" when trying to register Windchill server
  • Is it possible to specify Creo cache to other folder than the default path %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\PTC\ProENGINEER\Wildfire?
  • How to configure different Creo Parametric versions (e.g. 7.0.0.0 and 7.0.4.0) to use different workspaces?
  • How to change the Creo Windchill PDMLink server cache location to the default location
  • What kind of data is stored in .wf and .ws cache folder?
  • Does having multiple versions of Creo on a computer have other effects on the version being used?
  • Getting error as - Quality Agent was not initialized
  • How to separate cache directories which can have one Creo session launch as integrate with Windchill , one Creo session launch as standalone?
  • When starting Creo Parametric 4.0 M060 on the R&D cloud platform, the interface freezes and does not respond
  • Windchill server goes offline at Creo Parametric startup if multiple release/version of Creo Parametric exists on the same machine/system
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