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[roma Golich]

Vs17 store dNet ref sources in the user's AppData subfolder. It's not my know-how, anyway, just to backup it.
To store the ref src in another folder. I save the settings — it's xml-file — and change the following, then reload and restart vs (becouse after 1-st attempt to do that I get a error when load or save the vs settings — be aware, there can be problems, may be the big...).

In the private hive (you can explore it through the „settings explorer“ in the menu vs - windows - other) stored in userName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0 ...\privateregistry.bin
So I attempt to load it under HKLM as a named hive using the regEditr. There was no sourceserver related settings, so I explore the save xmls — CurrentSettings.vssettings , it do contain the following tags:
<Category name="Debugger".....>
<PropertyValue name="SourceServerExtractToDirectory" />
<PropertyValue name="SourceLinkExtractToDirectory" />
<PropertyValue name="SecureSourceLocalDirectory" />
<PropertyValue name="SymbolCacheDir">d:\pdbs10\</PropertyValue>

<PropertyValue name="NugetSymbolServerName">https://symbols.nuget.org/download/symbols</PropertyValue>
<PropertyValue name="PublicSymbolServerName2">https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols</PropertyValue>
<PropertyValue name="FrameworkSourceServerName">https://referencesource.microsoft.com/symbols</PropertyValue>

First of all, when I work on winXP, somewhere I have read that the .pdb-files can contain commands, not only the symbols (adresses and names of variables, functions, etc), I though then: „It's as powerfull as vb4apps in the wordEditor“ — so be aware. More fresh srcs (https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-pdb.git )

I simply (and then after got errors importing/saving vssettings, after reload vs it's gone, but... ) change and load settings (tools - import/save settings menu vs):

<PropertyValue name="SourceServerExtractToDirectory">d:\pdbs10\dN etRefs</PropertyValue>
<PropertyValue name="SourceLinkExtractToDirectory">d:\pdbs10\dNet Refs</PropertyValue>
<PropertyValue name="SecureSourceLocalDirectory">d:\pdbs10\dNetRe fs</PropertyValue>

There is an article _https://www_micro_soft_com/en_us/sharedsource/debugging.aspx .
May be not all the tags need change.