A note on Microsoft’s Edge browser default download caching option

Today's blog post is an Microsoft Edge web browse tip. When you download a large file (say, multi-gigabyte) with Edge, especially in a disk-space-constrained environment, there's a small gotcha in the way Edge behaves by default.

If you have limited disk space on drive C:, and you attempt to download a large file and save it to another drive that has enough free disk space for the download, your download will fill the C: drive, run into completion, but never store the complete file on the destination folder.

The end result is that your download appears to complete, but your C: drive is not completely full, and your destination drive doesn't contain the file. Put other way, Edge stores temporary files on drive C:.

Once you are aware of this, this isn't usually a big problem, but can bite you the first time.

Happy downloading!