Can I delete the Patch zips that are taking up a few GB of my hard drive?

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In the Adobe folder under 'AdobePatchFiles' there are about 34 zip files that are taking up nearly 3GB of my hard drive. I don't see why I'd need these zip files, but I just wanted to check first before I delete them.

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

You can delete them, but be aware that this may cause issues with future updates when the installers check for those backup files and they are not there... It's always best to leave such stuff alone.

Mylenium

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So it's going to search for zip files?

[Mike Verzella]

For what it's worth -- August 2015:

I am using Creative Cloud (2015 apps) and Indesign CS6. I deleted the AdobePatchFiles folder to recover 2gb; some of these .zips date back to 2013.

I then successfully updated several apps, including Indesign CS6, from the CC app. It created a new patch folder with the latest updates. This also solved a problem with Indesign CS6 updating.

In other threads it has been suggested that if you remove old patch files and encounter a problem updating an app in the future, the app should be uninstalled and then reinstalled. In my opinion this is worth it to recover the disk space.

[rb91620650]

Wow, can't believe Adobe can't give an answer to this issue. I have almost 4 GB of .zip files in my Applications->Adobe->AdobePatchFiles folder and I'd love to free up that space on my HD.  Anyone have any thoughts about trying this scenario: Copy the complete patch folder to another drive for "safe-keeping", delete original .zips from the main HD folder, and if needed, move the complete backup .zips back to the exact same place where they originally lived.  Will this work? Thanks in advance for any ideas, thoughts, comments!

[PaulLawrence]

@Adobe

OK, so this has been highlighted as an issue since 2010.

Has it been resolved? If I could delete these files, I could recover 4.5Gb of space on my machine.