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

  • January 27, 2016
  • 13 replies
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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?

13 replies

Participant
October 13, 2020

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

ls_rbls
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Community Expert
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?

Participant
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.

Participant
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
Participant
March 14, 2018

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

Participating Frequently
January 22, 2019

Mine shows as 22.8 GB, Any chance it litters the system with files in places such as program data? I rather not uninstall and reinstall it, since I do not want to risk losing the licence. I purchased DC when the PC was new, and it was pre-installed.


You can download and run AcroSize.exe tool from

AcroSize.exe - Google Drive

It will accurately calculate the space taken by various Acrobat components.

If you still have concerns, collect and send me AcroSize.log file from User Temp folder.

January 28, 2016

Hi ,

Please go through the following forum thread.

How much disk space does your Acrobat installation take?

Regards

Sukrit Dhingra

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.