You can change the default location where Tibco Designer stores it’s user configuration like settings and cache. This may be helpfull since the default location on a Windows machine is your profile folder.
When you are working with products like Tibco XMLCanon all opened projects will be cached in your windows profile (for example: C:\Documents and Settings\someUser\.tibco-dav) which is not always a wanted effect.
Open the designer.tra file (in %TIBCO_HOME%\designer\5.x\bin) and add the line (for examle):
java.property.user.home D:/TIBCO_WORK
You have to restart Tibco Designer to activate the setting.