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angeloam
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July 2, 2011
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Adobe AIR installation took away 10 gb of hard drive space. Why?

  • July 2, 2011
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Hello all,

I recently downloaded the Mac app You Need a Budget (YNAB).  The app told me it needed to install Adobe AIR, which I allowed it to do.  Since installing Adobe AIR, the amount of empty hard drive space I have decreased from about 16 gb to 4.5 gb.  Furthermore, my entire system is running really slowly and I am concerned that it could crash at any time.  I used a program called App Zapper to delete Adobe AIR, but the lack of hard drive space the Adobe AIR installation caused persists. 

I had this happen once before with a previous version of Adobe AIR, and uninstalled that as well.  I would like to continue using the YNAB program, but not if it is going to cause my hard drive to lose 10 gb of space and to slow down significantly.  Does anyone have any advice?  Thank you.

Best,

Anne-Marie

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blazejewicz
Participating Frequently
July 2, 2011

Hello Anne-Marie,

AIR runtime is Adobe's software solution that 3rd party software vendor (YNAB) used to build their software. It does not necessarily mean that AIR runtime itself took 10Gb of your hard drive - there could be other possible cases (like incorrect software update routine that cannot delete temporary files, some issue strictly specific to your machine configuration, etc, etc).

They have general topic support forum for customers:

http://www.youneedabudget.com/forum/ynab-f38/

with section to post technical difficulties when using software:

http://www.youneedabudget.com/forum/technical-difficulties-f74/

kind regards,

Peter

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angeloamAuthor
Participant
July 2, 2011

Hi Peter,  Thank you for your reply. I will look into YNAB's technical support.  That said, I would like to investigate this further with regards to Adobe Air, as this is not the first time I have had this problem with a program that uses Adobe Air. I experienced the same problem when I first installed TweetDeck on my Mac. You mention potential file update and machine configuration problems. I am wondering if you or anyone else on this forum could advise me on how to diagnose whether those might be causing this issue.   Thank you,  Anne-Marie

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blazejewicz
Participating Frequently
July 2, 2011

Hi,

you could use Mac utility tool:

/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app

to verify your observation about memory and cpu use (when application is using a lot of CPU power it will slow down entire system effectiveness),

regards,

Peter

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