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Sep 14, 2021 6:37 PM UTC
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Large Adobe Temp Files, no clue whats causing it.

I have a couple computers at work that only use adobe to read pdfs but the temp files located C:/ProgramData/Adobe/Temp are extremely large. My PC is sitting at 128gigs, inside the folder are lots of folders with numbers, inside those folders are config.bin and installer.bin. What do I need to do to stop this from constantly filling or generating. It happens in the middle of the night when people arent using it, or when I am doing other stuff, I noticed thats today 3 folders were created at 1:57pm and 3 folders at 1:45pm which, at those times I was desiging in Solidworks. Any help? Some computers have small hard drives so we need to delete this folder often.

 

 

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    Scott38144649buhv
    Participant
    Jun 19, 2024 8:01 PM UTC

    Our company is experiencing this issue on all our endpoints as well.

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      h_p_h_-
      Participant
      Sep 9, 2024 1:01 PM UTC

      Same problem here.

       

      ADOBE ???

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        Shaun31530217kknb
        Participant
        May 30, 2024 4:57 AM UTC

        Just posting to confirm the same issue still exists 3 years later. Had about half a dozen staff that couldn't send email because their hard drives were full... full of Adobe Reader temp files (on average 100gb per user). I deleted them but what a ridiculous problem to have. 

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          Erhan37878880kg94
          Participant
          Jun 6, 2024 11:20 AM UTC

          Having same issues years later. Tried uninstalling adobe reader and reinstalling different versions. Issue still persists...

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            Monitor Marketing
            Participant
            Feb 28, 2023 2:55 PM UTC

            OK, so I had 647 GB in that folder. I noticed my Windows drive (C:) was starting to fill up which was odd because I don't really use for anything other than Windows and some folders connected to that, like dowloaded files etc. But I have all my Adobe applications on another drive. But apparently Adobe's been secretely stuffing an inbcredible amount of data in there without telling me. And for quite some time. Seems safe enough to just delete it all, but it really shouldn't have to be there in the first place.

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            Scott38144649buhv
            Participant
            Sep 9, 2024 1:45 PM UTC

            Our company record is 284,600.16 MB.

            647GB is INSANE!

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            kevin oh
            Participant
            Sep 1, 2022 12:59 PM UTC

            Hello Adobe,

            I am another user plagued by this bug, my C:\program data\Adobe\Temp consumes disk space and i have to manually delete the files in temp folder, currently being 43Gb weekly.  Please fix your product to properly update the Adobe products and delete failed updates living in this temp folder.

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            Sunny Virk
            Participant
            Jan 27, 2022 3:00 PM UTC

            Is there any solution to this yet?????
            Third time in the last 2 months my PC ran out of space because of the Adobe Temp folder occupying ~300GB of storage. 

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            Delta CADAuthor
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            Jan 27, 2022 3:14 PM UTC

            My only solution was to uninstall all adobe products from my pc and rely on opening pdfs in Edge.

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              Sunny Virk
              Participant
              Jan 27, 2022 5:06 PM UTC

              Man! This is pain. And ADOBE won't even bother to look into this?? It's been months since people are complaining about it. 

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              Delta CADAuthor
              Participating Frequently
              Sep 28, 2021 3:32 PM UTC

              So as a test I uninstalled all adobe products that I am aware of from my PC and I am still getting the temp file under C/ProgramData/Adobe. Since I last posted this on September 14, its created 8.34GB worth of temp storage. 

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              SnowyYooper
              Participant
              Dec 23, 2021 1:45 PM UTC

              Was there any solution found for this issue? I have the exact same Temp file problem at my workplace. Affecting dozens of computers.

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              Dave__M
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              Dave__MCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              Sep 14, 2021 6:48 PM UTC

              Is Acrobat the only Adobe application on those computers?  My Adobe folder has subfolders with the names of other Adobe applications to keep them organized.

              My best,

              Dave

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                Delta CADAuthor
                Participating Frequently
                Sep 14, 2021 6:52 PM UTC

                Adobe Reader DC, Adobe Acrobat DC, Adobe Acrobat Distiller DC and Adobe Creative Cloud.

                 

                 

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                Dave__M
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                Dave__MCommunity Expert
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                Sep 14, 2021 7:03 PM UTC

                Interesting - My folder sturcture is very different - Windows 10 64 bit, and a Creative Cloud subscription on board.  Perhaps someone from Adobe can chime in on this.  Good luck!

                Dave

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                Delta CADAuthor
                Participating Frequently
                Sep 14, 2021 6:46 PM UTC

                Ill add that each folder is 168mb.

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