Adobe folder taking up way too much space

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May 9, 2022
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I just did a computer upgrade for a client and discovered the Creative Cloud Libraries folder in Application Support is taking up over 110 GB of space. A peek inside and I see a couple of folders in the dcx sub-folder are taking up 50+ GB each. They consist of all Illustrator files (.ai), about 7000+ total, and date from now to far back as November 2018. 100+ GB and 7000+ files seems a bit too much. What are these exactly? How can I trim this down to free up space?

Example of their location:

/Users/john/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Creative Cloud Libraries/LIBS/CC3D10A47150946E7F000915_AdobeID/creative_cloud/dcx/7c6d94fe-ccfb-42bc-91f0-49fee5af9f0d/components

Libraries

Peru Bob

Community Expert

How can I trim this down to free up space?

By @crashinto24375666l43w

If the computer is short of disk space, a better solution would be a larger drive.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Why don't you ask John what he keeps in his Adobe CC Libraries?

He can free up space himself by logging-in to his Creative Cloud account. I would start with unused Fonts and Adobe Stock images. But he may have saved color swatches, paragraph styles, and other assets there that he shared with collaborators.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/how-to/creative-cloud-libraries.html

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Tyler38417608rduc

Participating Frequently

that link goes to adobe learn and doesn't say anything about creative cloud libraries

David__B

Adobe Employee

Hi @Tyler38417608rduc

This is the content that appears within the libraries panel within the desktop products and gets synced locally via the Creative Cloud desktop service.

Another option, besides those mentioned here by others, would be to export the library or libraries using up a large amount of space and then delete them afterward. If the library is not used regularly, it could be moved to external storage, copied back over, and imported again when needed. The component folder mentioned by the original poster would show the actual files within a given library if you were trying to remove specific ones using large amount of space.

This article describes the process for importing and exporting libraries as .cclibs files
https://adobe.ly/3SOfwzX

There is a delete option to remove a library in the same flyout menu with import/export.

Hope that helps,
Dave

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