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Following an edit, which of the Adobe Common folders can I safely delete ... or just the contained files relating to the project?

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YOUR locations will be set according to your installed drives
Every time I start a project I set my project and work files to F:\Adobe
(F is MY drive for temporary files, your drive letter may be different)
I work in EXPERT view to be able to control every aspect of my project
Click EDIT and then PREFERENCES and then SCRATCHDISKS
I set every one of the options to F:\Adobe
PrE then automatically creates sub-folders as needed
F:\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements Audio Previews
F:\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements Captured Audio
F:\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements Captured Video
F:\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements Video Previews
F:\Adobe\Encoded Files
F:\Adobe\Layouts
F:\Adobe\Peak Files

John T Smith

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YOUR locations will be set according to your installed drives
Every time I start a project I set my project and work files to F:\Adobe
(F is MY drive for temporary files, your drive letter may be different)
I work in EXPERT view to be able to control every aspect of my project
Click EDIT and then PREFERENCES and then SCRATCHDISKS
I set every one of the options to F:\Adobe
PrE then automatically creates sub-folders as needed
F:\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements Audio Previews
F:\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements Captured Audio
F:\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements Captured Video
F:\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Elements Video Previews
F:\Adobe\Encoded Files
F:\Adobe\Layouts
F:\Adobe\Peak Files

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RonSHAuthor

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Thanks John.

I do much the same and create a project folder in Adobe (in Windows 11Documents) within which I keep subfolders for eg images, video sound whatever. Though I have to add some I hadn't thought of eg Peak Files as also mentioned above by Ann.

Having a sharp learning curve having used Power Director for some 10 years ... fancied a change to exercise my ageing grey matter!

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John T Smith

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Some notes I made while moving from PrEl v7 to v2021

http://www.direct2usales.com/PrE2021.txt

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Ann Bens

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They are recreated on opening the project.

Set your Media cache to another drive in the preferences if you don't want to flood the C drive.

What is the full path, there are more than one common.

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RonSHAuthor

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Thanks Ann,

590 Files, 22 Folders and 50+MB held in this Common Folder: AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common ... even when I have to the best of my knowledge deleted all project material when completed. Can I delete all the Common/ folders and files?

Which leads me to ask ... where else does Premiere Elements retain project info after 'so called' deletion? It seems to build and retain info which is hard to locate.

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Ann Bens

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You might have deleted all projects but the program is still on the computer?

You are not suppose to delete anything from appdata as it's a hidden folder.

besides they are all very small files. 50 mb is nothing.

Do not delete the folders just the content of the media (cache) and peak files.

and change the preferences.

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