Many versions of applications installed?

[wcn_dave]

I know I installed premier 6, in order to have the DVD authoring tools, which adobe kindly took away in later versions, however I never installed 4 versions, or 2 versions of photoshop, or 3 versions of Bridge, which I never use etc.....

Can I safely remove uneeded programs somehow?

[AxelMatt]

On ervery major update the installation will keep the older version by default. After a while when you are happy with the new version you can delete it. It seems that you have never deinstall the older version.

Please take a look here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/get-started/two-versions-of-photoshop-cc/td-p/10219953

[wcn_dave]

This doesn't appear to be correct at all.

Check my post over here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/get-started/two-versions-of-photoshop-cc/m-p/10808854#M446215

I uninstalled an earlier version of Photoshop, and it uninstalled ALL versions of photoshop, so all settings etc have been lost....  Many hours of work are gone because of major bugs that Adobe consistently ignores.

I guess you have to fill up your hard drive with many tens of versions of software you don't need.

[AxelMatt]

How do you have uninstall the older versions? You have to do this in the Creative Cloud Desktop app.

I've done this a few weeks ago and it has worked.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/uninstall-remove-app.html

>> I guess you have to fill up your hard drive with many tens of versions of software you don't need.

This is definitely not the case

[wcn_dave]

I did it from here:

Where it says "uninstall"

[wcn_dave]

Uploading pictures is not working.... GRRR... there are so many things broken with adobe....

[AxelMatt]

As far as I can see this is ok and this is also the right way.

Why you have so much trouble I can't say from here. It's possible thats your complete CC installation could by faulty. But it is only a guess.

I suggest a complete and clean reinstallation of all Adobe CC

• make a backup of all of your preferences, templates and so on 
• uninstall cc apps (including preferences) -> https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/uninstall-remove-app.html 
• uninstall the cc desktop app -> https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/uninstall-creative-cloud-desktop-app.html 
• clean your computer of cc files with the Adobe Cleaner Tool -> http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html 
• restart your computer (don't skip this!!) 
• reinstall the cc desktop app, https://creative.adobe.com/products/creative-cloud. 
• if you're unable to install the cc desktop app at this stage, use an administrator account (solution 3 in the linked document) 
  https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/creative-cloud-missing-damaged.html) 
• use the desktop app to install your appropriate cc programs/trials
• restore your preferences etc. 

It sounds drastic and consumes time, but from my experience it solves a lot of problems.

[wcn_dave]

Thanks, but just this part:

| make a backup of all of your preferences, templates and so on 

Is too much.

I have not done anything odd, weird or unusual.  Previously, before CC, different versions could sit as separate installs and all be happy together, or uninstalled.

I am not going to pay money to Adobe, so they can get me to spend hours of my life solving their problems.

I sound frustrated, because I am, it's a constant struggle with adobe, and they really don't listed to feedback, remove features we like, introduce new ones we don't and say "tough", and then charge large amounts of money for that priviledge, all the while we struggle through with thousands of little bugs, crashes, loss of data and loss of time.

[wcn_dave]

What else is odd, is that in program files, I still have the Photoshop 2015 files.  So it removed the latest version, and kept the old version.  The complete opposite of what it's supposed to do.

[AxelMatt]

As I wrote in my previous answer I think your CC installation has a fault. The behavior when installing / uninstalling updates is not normal.

So I suggest a complete and clean reinstallation. I think there is no way around it.