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adamw13404180
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May 11, 2019
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Cannot Install Photoshop CC Due to "Insufficient Disk Space" Despite Changing Directory

  • May 11, 2019
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I've been unable to install Photoshop as I constantly get this error whenever I try, despite my changing the installation directory to a drive with 133GB of free space. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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May 11, 2019

See Photoshop system requirements  Even if you try to install on a 2nd drive, your primary hard disk must have sufficient resources to install software.  This might be a good time to move data and work files to an external drive and uninstall all non-essential software to free up space on the primary disk.  

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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Lai2497360536zd
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June 22, 2022

The requirements you link to above only say how much free disk space is required.  It doesn't say that the free space MUST be on the boot drive!  On top of that, the error message you get when install fails is wrong as it says "...only '1278648320' bytes are available on the installation directory"  when the installation directory (drive) has 250GB free.

Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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May 11, 2019

What is your OS and version and how much space is on your system disk?

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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adamw13404180Author
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May 11, 2019

I use Windows 10 and I have 2GB free on the system disk.

Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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May 11, 2019

A little bit OT, but I can remember that my first harddisk had just 5Mb!

And I remember creating a stripe of 4 500Mb disks on our mini super computer (with an overall power of less than what I use now as a phone) just to crash the OS, because the Unix system used signed integer as a disk location pointer and on a 32bits system you can represent a positive number up to 2Gb-1.

And now you fail your install because you “only” have 2Gb free. I would love my salary being so inflationary... .

Sorry about that as it does not solve your problem but sometimes I remember things from the dark ages of computing...

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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