Acrobad using 257 GB of application memory???

[Randolph5E74]

Why is Acrobat claiming bizarrely huge amounts of Memory on my mac (2019 iMac, Big Sur 11.6),  Acrobat Pro DC 2021-007-20091.

If finally quit itself, in the process losing its memory of recent files for the last 2 weeks.

It's a miracle that Adobe can stay in business while making software like this (and at this cost!)

[AkanchhaS]

Hi Randolph,

Sorry to hear about such experience so far. 

Acrobat DC doesn't occupies this much of disk space. If your is 257GB then there's something wrong. May be you have got a lot of updates, each update least adds 3x its download size.

If you get a lot of updates, then uninstall the application once and reinstall. And the one latest update, will reduce disk storage space.

Run this cleaner tool: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Labs/cleaner.html 

and Download the Acrobat DC from here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/acrobat-dc-downloads.html 

Please check the system requirements for Acrobat DC here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/system-requirements.html 

Thanks,

Akanchha

[Randolph5E74]

Adobe DC did not claim 257G of disk space, but of operating memory (RAM), suggesting a major memory leak when left running for a while. Once it crashed (and nearly crashed my Mac in the process... it took out several other apps, but not Finder), the program's memory usage returned to normal, so far.