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December 12, 2025

windows c gets full when rendering

  • December 12, 2025
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Before this stupid update everything worked perfectly. Now every time I try to render my timeline, Premiere Pro suddenly decides to eat my entire Windows C drive  for no reason — even though my media cache is literally assigned to another drive. Every update they touch something and somehow make the software even worse, then act like we are the problem. 

Honestly, I hope Adobe goes bankrupt one day because all they do is scam people for subscriptions and give back nothing but pain, bugs, crashes, and broken features. It’s only a matter of time before everyone fully dumps this garbage and moves to DaVinci Resolve, which actually improves instead of getting worse.

And the funniest part? They even force Adobe Acrobat into my subscription like I asked for it. I don’t even use it. Just stuffing useless products into our plans to charge more. Absolute clown company.

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Known Participant
December 13, 2025

Hi please fix your software and stop blaming our pc and spec, i just purchased Da vinci yesterday because of that only i was able to work on my project otherwise i would have lost my work because i had deadlines too, this very bad from Adobe coming up with new updates and messing with the system this was 1st time this kind of problem happened to me even if i change everything it still fills up my windows c and even software now crashes more in rendering, you guys are literally forcing us to quit your software. 

IanB_360
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 12, 2025

Hi @Jerry23300790jgby 

Welcome to the Premiere Pro Forum community. Thank you for taking the time to report a problem. It would help us if you could use the link here, 'How to Report a Problem,' which provides steps to provide more information that can help us identify the issue. Sorry for the frustration and the issue you are facing. If you have the time to use the 'Reporduce a problem'  and send us your system specs and steps to reproduce, we will try to figure out how we can help you get back to working perfectly.

Here to help.

Ian

Known Participant
December 12, 2025

hey never has this issue at all this happened after i update the priemere pro and i am not thje only one with this issue i found there are others too, never in 3,4 years i had this issue and this genuinely messed up my whole project i cannot even render it, and i have to explain my client this as they find it as excuse, so many times Adobe has ruined my projects no wonder why so many are shifting to Da vinci this is genuinely becoming one of the worst software.  https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/premiere-fills-up-c-drive-when-i-m-rendering-my-project/td-p/15483884

here is another one where there was no help from any adobe team genuinely they put us in bad situation i tried everything with my laptop

R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 12, 2025

Wow, I'm not getting this behavior at all. I wonder what is off that is causing it?

 

All my cache preview and render files are set to a folder on the second Nvme drive, which is only used for cache files. And never seems to get above about 85-90 gigs of the 250gig drive used. Huh.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Known Participant
December 12, 2025

Screenshot 2025-12-12 090606.pngbefore it used to be only auto save and video prieview now they made whole bunch of clown folders to eat my disk space even when i render my timeline bit honestly disgusting software