NCrunch doesn't recognise environment variable

Question

I've set my NCrunch cache storage path to %TEMP%\NCrunchCache. However, I get the following error:

NCrunch was unable to access the directory 
'C:\src\solutionFolder\%TEMP%\NCrunchCache' as specified in the configuration for this solution.
Cache data will instead be stored in the default location

The documentation suggests this is possible:

From NCrunch v2.20, this setting supports specifying environment variables (i.e. '%MyCacheRootDir%\MySolution')

What am I missing?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '16 at 10:32

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Have you tried restarting VS since changing the environment variable? When you start a process, it gets copies of the environment variables, so if VS was opened before you changed it, you might be working with old variables.

I'd consider closing all VS instances, then making sure you don't have any NCrunch.BuildHostXXX.x86.exe processes in Task Manager.

answered Jul 13 '16 at 10:32

Steve Cooper

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While this looked promising, it didn't work. Thanks anyway. – David Osborne Jul 13 '16 at 11:21
Restarting does not work. Using `%AppData%\NCrunchCache` still leads to `C:\src\Solution\%AppData%\NCrunchCache` (using v3.6) – Waescher May 05 '17 at 11:27

NCrunch doesn't recognise environment variable

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