After Effects wont update and media encoder wont install with plenty space

I just subrcribed to the monthly plan for after effects and trying to get media encoder as well. When I went into my creative cloud app to update, it said i didnt have enough space on my local disk which wasnt surprising. I just built my pc in the begining of january and with the games I have I expected that. I went to change the download destination if thats what you call it to my hard drive, which has a full 8 terrabytes free. After doing so, it still tells me I have no space, which couldn't be further from the truth. Is there any way to resolve this? If anyone could help that would be so appreciated, Id hate to have dropped money on a program that i wont even be able to use with this problem, if that makes sense. Thank You!