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Markfishpickart
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January 27, 2016
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Why does my Adobe Acrobat take up so much space

  • January 27, 2016
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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?

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    SIVESH5C80
    Participant
    October 13, 2020

    I have experience a 2.3 gb space which was used by adobe acrobat 

      ls_rbls
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      ls_rblsCommunity Expert
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      March 29, 2021

      Just curious about the Microsoft Windows users that have reported the exact issue in this thread, Is this happening accross different versions of MS Windows or just Windows 7 or newer?

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        A L McKenzie
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        March 29, 2021

        My experience is a Win 10 Professional platform, but it's nothing to do with the OS or its interpretation of the install size as suggested. A simple check of the install folder and it's file libraries totalls up to the install size which is >3.0Gb.

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          lhjuul
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          October 31, 2016

          Well, lucky you.

          My Adobe Acrobat DC is 11,0 GB!

          THIS IS CRAZY!!!

          I just had to uninstall a bunch of programs to make Photoshop even able to startup. I have a 256 GB SSD and only about 7GB free space left after the cleanup. I did go through all temp. files, trash-bin etc. etc... Even put all photos and personal files on an external drive + cloud.

          Just don't understand the sizes of programs nowadays...

            johnt53587302
            johnt53587302
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            March 14, 2018

            I have precisely the same situation.  Acrobat DC is bigger than a CAD (3d, assemblies etc) program.

              Bernd Alheit
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              Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
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              March 29, 2021

              Just come to this thread and it's like nearly every other software and application-related one I've ever come across in 25 years in IT.

               

              2.7Gb is still an enormous amount of space for what is fundamentally a simple program that creates a document or a mixture of straightforward content. If there's a problem between how Microsoft reports Adobe application storage sizes, it's a fault I'd expect Adobe & Microsoft to fix - surely can't be that hard?

               

              In any event, what is the answer to how a simple program requires nearly 3gb of installed space?


              Acrobat is not a simple programm!

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                Anonymous
                January 28, 2016

                Hi ,

                Please go through the following forum thread.

                How much disk space does your Acrobat installation take?

                Regards

                Sukrit Dhingra

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                  MarkfishpickartAuthor
                  Participant
                  January 28, 2016

                  Yes but this doesn't solve my other issue with duplicate programs. I asked

                  for help getting rid of previous versions of adobe programs with cc and cc

                  2015. This article says its bulky at 3 gigs but mine is double. This is

                  terrible customer service.

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