Starting with SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® 7.15HF5, the temporary file location for the local server changed from C:\Users\user-id \AppData\Local\Temp… to C:\Users\user-id \AppData\Roaming\....

This change is intentional and was introduced to address the issue in SAS Note 62237, "Saving a SAS^® Enterprise Guide^® project might randomly fail with errors such as 'Failed to save project' and 'Cannot perform the requested operation'."

This behavior occurs only when the work area in your sasv9.cfg file references to the Windows TEMP environment variable: "-WORK "!TEMP\SAS Temporary Files.

If you want to revert to the behavior that you had before installing the hot fix that introduced the change, you can change the temporary file location for the local server by setting the EnterpriseGuideTempFolder config option in the SEGuide.exe.config file.

Here an example: