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October 17, 2024
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For updates: Why do I have to have space in Disk C/: when I have everything on another drive?

  • October 17, 2024
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Just that, why does it have to be thay way? Its literally nonsensical, it doesn't let me update anything at all, it stops

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 20, 2024

You need ample free space on your primary drive so that your operating system can download and unpack files prior to installation.  That's how computers work.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 18, 2024

Your operating system needs hard drive space for temp and system files.

John T Smith
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 17, 2024

The program manager and 'parts' of programs are installed to the boot drive

Install on non-boot drive (with a picture) https://community.adobe.com/t5/download-install-discussions/creative-cloud-installation/td-p/12455173

 

During the download and install process temporary files are created on the boot drive... just how much space do you have on your boot [C] drive?

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 17, 2024

lots of files are installed on the os drive.  eg, https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/adobe-background-processes.html