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Change AppData\Local\rancher-desktop on Windows #6296

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I don't have access to my Windows machine right now, so this is untested, but I expect it to work.

Rancher Desktop is using 2 WSL distros, rancher-desktop and rancher-desktop-data. The first one includes the software and is basically fixed size. The second one includes all the container images you build or pull from repositories, and can grow quite significantly.

Make sure you quit Rancher Desktop before trying to move the data. Note that the rancher-desktop-data.tar file will be quite large too, so put it on a disk with sufficient free space:

wsl --shutdown

wsl --export rancher-desktop-data rancher-desktop-data.tar

wsl --unregister rancher-desktop-data

wsl --import rancher-desktop-dat…

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