Go to the following directory:

<Informatica installation directory>\clients\DeveloperClient\configuration\

Locate the config.ini file.

Create a backup copy of the config.ini file.

Use a text editor to open the config.ini file.

Add the

osgi.instance.area.default

variable to the end of the config.ini file and set the variable to the directory location where you want to save the workspace metadata. The file path cannot contain non-ANSI characters. Folder names in the workspace directory cannot contain the number sign (#) character. If folder names in the workspace directory contain spaces, enclose the full directory in double quotes.