Delete or Keep; That is the question!

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
September 9, 2025
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Greetings all,

I recently got my new computer system up and running a week+ ago, and updated all of my apps in my plan.

At this point in time, I feel very comfortable that everything is operating properly.

I am of the opinion that I could/should safely delete the old apps; Photoshop 2020, Bridge 2020, LIghtroom Classic 2020, etc since I won't be using them any longer and they are taken up disk space unnecessarily.

I am curious what the general consenus is in the Adobe community.

Thank you in advance for your feedback. I'll look forward to your replies.

~Angelo

macOS

Correct answer Mark_Johnson6156

Yes, it’s safe to delete the older versions if you’re comfortable with the new setup. Some people keep them as a fallback in case of issues, but if disk space matters and everything works fine, you can uninstall the 2020 apps.

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Mark_Johnson6156Correct answer

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Yes, it’s safe to delete the older versions if you’re comfortable with the new setup. Some people keep them as a fallback in case of issues, but if disk space matters and everything works fine, you can uninstall the 2020 apps.

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angelom65881300Author

Inspiring

I appreciate your reply. My new system does have 4 terabytes of disk space, so it's not an overriding issue, just figured if I'm not going to use the older versions anymore, what's the point in keeping them.

D Fosse

Community Expert

A fairly common problem when uninstalling old versions is breaking file associations (which application opens a file type by default). This is a recurring issue here in the forum.

The safe way to avoid any problems is to always follow version order both ways. When uninstalling, start with the newest version and work backwards.

So in this case:

uninstall 2025
uninstall 2020
reinstall 2025

What happens is that the old version takes file associations with it on the way out, leaving them orphaned.

If it already happened, an uninstall/reinstall will usually fix it. Sometimes it's enough to go into Windows Settings and manually reassign file associations.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@angelom65881300 if you're not going to be using them, I would uninstall them, some people keep older versions for plug-ins that may not work with newer versions of Photoshop, other people keep older version for other reasons.

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angelom65881300Author

Inspiring

Different strokes for different folks, I surmise. 😉 Thank you for your response, I appreciate it!

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