Visual Studio Symbols stored/loaded from wrong place

Question

Hello,

I'm rather new to symbol servers and I've been experimenting with them and Visual Studio 2008 running Windows XP(SP3). I've encountered a wierd problem as my symbols are not being cached locally in the directory I've specified all the time. The possible reasons I have found for this si that the symbols(.pdb's) are being written to VS's IDE directory and/or the symbols are somehow being written in with the .exe, which I find odd since it should be read only. The symbols are being sent to the "server" I've specified so that part of the system shouldn't be the problem.

Has anyone else had this type of issue before and/or maybe a solution to this problem?

Thanks :)

Answer 1

Have you tried explicitly providing a caching directory for symbols?

• Tools -> Options -> Debugger -> Symbols
• Add a symbol cache directory

This will force all symbols loaded from the symbol server locations to be cached in this directory.