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August 17, 2025
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How to clear cashe without a subscription

  • August 17, 2025
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Having issues with my macbook's storage being half taken up by "other" and learnt some of it could be my premier pro cashe. Trying to clear the cashe to see if that helps, but I had a school subscription thats ended so I can no longer open the app. The only way I can find to clear it involves opening the app which I cannot do. Any suggestions on how to clear it manually? The main article says to search a certain location on your macbook but its not coming up when I search in finder and the instructions are really short so idk what I'm doing wrong.

Correct answer Warren Heaton

Unistalling Premiere Pro should have removed the everything as long as "Keep" wasn't selected.

 

What do you see when you go to the following file path?
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common

If files are still present, it will look something like this.

 

As far as "Other' storage goes on your Macintosh HD, check Disk Utility for APFS Snapshots that may need to be manually deleted.  https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/view-apfs-snapshots-dskuf82354dc/mac

I like to use Parallels Toolbox's Clean Drive to free up storage space on a regular basis.  It's an annual subscription, but I believe Parallels offers a trial period.

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Warren Heaton
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Warren HeatonCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
August 17, 2025

Unistalling Premiere Pro should have removed the everything as long as "Keep" wasn't selected.

 

What do you see when you go to the following file path?
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common

If files are still present, it will look something like this.

 

As far as "Other' storage goes on your Macintosh HD, check Disk Utility for APFS Snapshots that may need to be manually deleted.  https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/view-apfs-snapshots-dskuf82354dc/mac

I like to use Parallels Toolbox's Clean Drive to free up storage space on a regular basis.  It's an annual subscription, but I believe Parallels offers a trial period.

Participant
August 25, 2025

I hadnt uninstalled the apps so I went through and did that the proper way and did select "remove" and it did free up a lot of space. I'll look into the APFS snapshots too. Thank you!

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 17, 2025

The cache is saved to the location you chose while setting up the project.

Search for .pek and .cfa files.