Raspberry Pi Imager - Where do images get downloaded to?

[mccannd]

When using the Raspberry Pi Imager (on Win 7 PC) and selecting Raspbian to write to my SD. Where does the Raspbian image get downloaded to, before being written to the SD card? Does the Raspbian image get deleted after being written to the SD, or does it stay in a temp folder somewhere on my Win 7 PC?

[Botspot]

I had the same question, and got the answer here from one of the developers.

Differs by OS.
Typically somewhere under c:\users\your-username\AppData\Local or ~/.cache or ~/Library/Caches

AppData folder -like most other system folders- is hidden by default in Windows explorer.

[leysanb01]

images are being downloaded in the directory i.e., Local Disk C:\users\your-username\AppData\Local or ~/.cache or ~/Library/Caches or sometime in AppData

[kaksi]

Where does the Raspbian image get downloaded to...on my Win 7 PC?/quote]

In such cases, I open the command prompt and issue

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dir c:\".img /s/p

or

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dir c:\*raspbi* /s/p

[Botspot]

Where does the Raspbian image get downloaded to...on my Win 7 PC?/quote]

In such cases, I open the command prompt and issue

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dir c:\".img /s/p

or

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dir c:\*raspbi* /s/p

Have you actually tried this?
Because on my system, the downloaded file does not end with .img, is not raw disk image format, and does not include "raspbi" in the filename.

[mccannd]

Thanks for all the replies, appreciate it

So in this folder:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Raspberry Pi\Imager\cache

I have a 1.10GB file

lastdownload.cache

So I suspect that's Raspbian. Is it ok to delete this file and cache folder?

Just trying to clear up some disk space.

[Botspot]

Thanks for all the replies, appreciate it

So in this folder:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Raspberry Pi\Imager\cache

I have a 1.10GB file

lastdownload.cache

So I suspect that's Raspbian. Is it ok to delete this file and cache folder?

Just trying to clear up some disk space.

On my Raspbian system the cache file is also called "lastdownload.cache", so it looks like you found it.

It deleted fine for me. Just remember you're in the AppData folder, which is hidden away from users. So be especially careful.

[raymate]

Sorry to hijack thread, same question but on a Mac, I tried looking for them but I can't find cached images

[incognitum]

Sorry to hijack thread, same question but on a Mac, I tried looking for them but I can't find cached images

"Go" -> "Go to Folder..." -> ~/Library/Caches/Raspberry Pi

[raymate]

Thank you, perfect, found it

Sorry to hijack thread, same question but on a Mac, I tried looking for them but I can't find cached images

"Go" -> "Go to Folder..." -> ~/Library/Caches/Raspberry Pi