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?????????????