Why does my Adobe Acrobat take up so much space

[Markfishpickart]

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

[soaring bird]

Yes, I started by deleting downloaded program files, temporary internet files, emptying the recycle bin and performing all such routine maintenance. All that freed less than 200 MB. That's when I uninstalled Adobe Acrobat Pro and recovered 86 GB. Subsequently, I installed Adobe Reader DC, and it used only a couple GB.

[ls_rbls]

Interesting. Thank you for sharing that observation. I'll keep an eye on that.

[michaelm38870067]

I have 94 GB showing as installed on my Win 10 PC! It seems to keep growing each day. I ahve emtied all relevant trash such as temp files etc but it makes no difference.

[Bernd Alheit]

Where does you see 94 GB usage?

[michaelm38870067]

When I go to Cotrol Panel and check programs (install/Uninstall) it shows up as 94 GB and seems to be growing a bit each day. I would like to use the program; however, it is eating up a great deal of disk space - now 25% of a 500GB hard drive.

[michaelm38870067]

Is there a way to re-install Acrobat DC and ensure it does so with a much smaller footprint?

[Alexandre33983685mtuz]

The same story, remove Acrobat => 15GB free, install it back, after 1 month => no space. no other SW is install in that time.
Is there any solution to solve it without reinstallation?

[peiwen343726317hac]

I met same question so many times, so that my hardware is full. I am confusing. My computor is macbook air m2.

[Sarathoos]

I can't believe my Acrobat has reserved this much space (56GB!)

[Glen2551178661mt]

Check multiple folders, my Adobe Reader folder was ~3.8GB, I had another 8 gigs worth of garbage in various other folders related to Adobe Reader.

[Guest]

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

Seriously.  There is no logical reason for this.  

[honey28263099wyfj]

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?

[Cem Gul]

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

[Daniel332293655wuh]

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

[Daniel332293655wuh]

[Don33506240tou2]

Mine is 279!!!! 

[Ibrahim32156158g4f0]

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

[phani_4621]

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

[Tariq Ahmad]

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

[Edmund34508659xdeb]

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

[Goldnebula]

It is appalling that Adobe have not realised what is causing the issue.

Everytime it installs an update, it leaves a installation file which builds up over time.

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\ARM

[LeoUpdaterX]

If an update is installed successfully, Updater should cleanup no longer needed update file. If there was an issue installing update, Updater will leave it on the system so it does not have to download it again. To find out what is your case, can you please provide a bit more information?

Which product do you have installed? Screen shot of the C:\ProgramData\Adobe\ARM subfolder structure that will show which update files are still there. Most importantly, can you please enable Updater verbose logging and provide AdobeARM.log file from User Temp folder approximately 3 days after verbose logging is enabled?

To enable verbose logging, please add iLogLevel DWORD registry value and set it to 1 in the registry below-

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM

Do not post the log here. Send it to me in the private message or upload somewhere (Dropbox?) and provide a link.

Thank you in advance.

[Amal.]

Hi there,

Hope you're doing well, and thanks for reaching out.

To assist you better, could you please share the name of the Adobe app you're using? If it's Adobe Acrobat, let us know the exact version of Acrobat Pro and the operating system (OS) you're working on.

Additionally, it would be helpful if you could provide a screenshot of the installation size from your system settings. This information will help us investigate the issue further and provide the best possible solution.

[Goldnebula]

Windows 10 22H2, Adobe Acrobat DC 2019, it is in the hundreds of GBs like other users have reported. 

[Goldnebula]

Can you please tell us how to turn off Auto Update?