[Office 2013] Can you change location of the cache files?

New Daddy
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[Office 2013] Can you change location of the cache files?

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Since I can't sync QAT by creating a hard link to the Word.officeUI in a Dropbox folder, the next best alternative seems to hard link the entire C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OFFICE folder. Unfortunately, C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OFFICE is excessively large for syncing due to what seems to be the cache files under the "15.0" subfolder.

Is there any way to have Office look to a different folder for cache? If that's possible, I'll delete the "15.0" subfolder, make C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OFFICE folder leaner, and create a hard link to the entire C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OFFICE folder in Dropbox.

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Re: [Office 2013] Can you change location of the cache files

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I don't really know, but it looks like the location cannot easily be changed.
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