When you install Revit, you should know about some important files that reside in the UserDataCache folder and in your user profile folder.
Files in the UserDataCache folder
The UserDataCache folder is located here:
C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\<product and release>\UserDataCache
That folder contains the following files, which provide default settings for each user:
- MaterialUIConfig.xml
- Revit.ini
- shxfontmap.txt
Files in the user profile folder
When you start the Revit software for the first time, your roaming user profile folder is created in the following location:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Revit\<product and release>
The files in UserDataCache are copied to your user profile folder. As you use Revit, the software refers to the information stored in your user profile files, not to the files in UserDataCache.
The folder CefCache is found in your user profile folder. This folder is created when you start Revit it holds information related to browsing activity native to Revit.
What does this mean?
- If you have not yet started Revit on the computer for the first time, you can customize the files in UserDataCache (such as Revit.ini). When you start Revit, those customized versions of the files are copied to your user profile folder and accessed when you use the software.
- If you have already started Revit on the computer and you want to customize any of these files, you must modify the files stored in your user profile folder. Changes to the files in UserDataCache do not affect your software.
- The user copy of the Revit.ini file can be deleted, leading to a new Revit.ini file being created from the UserDataCache copy the next time Revit is launched.