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Why does my Adobe Acrobat take up so much space

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I was doing some system cleanup and noticed acrobat is over 6 gigs! That seems crazy to me. Anyone else experiencing this?

Install update and subscribe to Acrobat

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Electromedia666

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For years I struggled with maintaining space on my 6yr old 2TB laptop. I just discovered the stored Adobe Acrobat files eating up 29GB of space.

On top of the Windows Installer Problem I found another 27GB of adobe acrobat files on my device!

That's 56GB! I know this problem straddles Microsoft/Adobe, but I expect better from such a premium monthly service.

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Meenakshi Negi

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Hi Electromedia666,

Thank you for reaching out, and sorry to hear about your experience.

As mentioned above, the Adobe Acrobat files are taking up 29 GB of space. Acrobat should take up 4.5GB of available hard disk space. For more information on technical requirements, you may refer to the following help document: Technical requirements

Please try reinstalling the application using the steps suggested below:

Uninstall the application and run the cleaner tool from the following link: Acrobat Cleaner tool.
Reboot the machine.
Install Adobe Acrobat from the following page: Install Acrobat.

Please let us know how it goes.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Periodically, uninstall and reinstall. I think mine was up to 8 GB at one time and then went down to 2 GB.

WARNING: Do do this if you have an old stand-alone version or do not have an installer. You may not get it working again.

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phani_4621

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i know right i am facing this problem to bro it's taking up 9 GB in my computer

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Tariq Dar

Legend

Hi @phani_4621,

Sorry for the delayed response and troubled experience.
If you are still experiencing this issue, could you please share a screenshot of the application size on the machine? Also, please share the Acrobat version and OS name and version.

Please share the details. We will look into this further and try to find a solution to the problem.

~Tariq

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Edmund34508659xdeb

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How come this issue that has been going on for YEARS is still UNRESOLVED?

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Ibrahim32156158g4f0

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Just checked mine, it is a freaking 180GB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How?????????????

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Daniel332293655wuh

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Well I think I am a record holder, mine apparently weighs 286 GB!!!!! I just uninstalled it....

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Daniel332293655wuh

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Cem Gul

Participant

Correct answer: Do not use Acrobat Reader. Get rid of it. Reader is just an utility. What is that gigabytes for god sake?

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honey28263099wyfj

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Only inquisitive about the Microsoft Windows clients that have detailed the specific issue in this string, Is this occurrence accross various variants of MS Windows or just Windows 7 or fresher?

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Anonymous

I just looked and Apps & Features says 60GB?!?!?!?!?!

Seriously. There is no logical reason for this.

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