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Where does visual studio 2017 download its packages to when you install?
It would be nice if i could make a backup of the downloaded packages.
Reason for asking, is i already installed it on one PC, and would like to grab those "already downloaded" files and install it on another pc.
I understand that i could specify a download path, or make an "offline" installer, however, i did not know this beforehand, and would like to know the default location of packages being downloaded when using the web installer
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The \Microsoft\VisualStudio\Shared directory is where Visual Studio stores the files that are shared by side-by-side Visual Studio installations. SDKs and tools are also stored in this directory.
See if you have this file on your machine: "%programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\layout\InstallCleanup.exe"
If you've already installed it and want to change the location, you must uninstall Visual Studio and then reinstall it. In the Shared components, tools, and SDKs section, select the folder where you want to store the files that are shared by side-by-side Visual Studio installations.
To see the list of your subscriptions, visit https://my.visualstudio.com/subscriptions. If you already have a Visual Studio subscription: Go to https://my.visualstudio.com/downloads. Sign in to your subscription.
in november/2019, windows 7 SP1, 32 bits the download folder for Visual Studio 2019 Comunity is: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio It contains 3 folders, named: 2019, COMMON and Installer
there is other one: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages but here, only appear some *.json files
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