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October 8, 2013
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Photoshop Elements 11 hard drive space system requirement?

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I have a macbook pro with 4gb of memory in the hard-drive. I wanted to get photoshop elements 11 but the system requirements includes 4gb of hard-drive. Because some of my memory has been used up, does that mean I can not install photoshop elements 11 in my computer?

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    John Waller
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 8, 2013

    NPar1234 wrote:

    I have a macbook pro with 4gb of memory in the hard-drive. I wanted to get photoshop elements 11 but the system requirements includes 4gb of hard-drive. Because some of my memory has been used up, does that mean I can not install photoshop elements 11 in my computer?

    Just to get the terminology clear: you're not mixing RAM specs with hard drive space, are you?

    Photoshop Elements 11 requires 1 GB of RAM and 4GB of hard drive space

    http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/release-note/photoshop-elements-11-release-notes.html#main-pars_header_0

    MacBook Pros come with 8GB of system RAM. Older models had 4GB of RAM. Plenty for PSE11 or PSE12.

    http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/

    Hard drives are usually are 128GB or 256GB or 512GB or higher. Again, plenty for PSE11 or PSE12.

    What are the exact specs (RAM and hard drive storage) of your MacBook Pro and how much hard drive space do you have free?

    Plus, bear in mind that Photoshop Elements 12 was released in late September and is now the current version. Adobe no longer sells PSE 11.

    Jeffrey_A_Wright
    Legend
    October 8, 2013

    NPar1234 do you receive a message when you try to install that you have insufficient disk space?  If so then you will need to make more space available to install the software.

    NPar1234Author
    Participant
    October 8, 2013

    I don't even own the software yet, I am thinking of purchasing it but did not want to if I don't have enough space. Do you need all 4gb to install/store?

    Jeffrey_A_Wright
    Legend
    October 8, 2013

    NPar1234 you will actually need more than 4GBs to install.  You can find the system requirements for Photoshop Elements 11 at System requirements | Adobe Photoshop Elements - http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/system-requirements-photoshop-elements.html.  There are temporary files which have to be created during the installation process.  This is why we recommend having more than 4 GB available.  I would actually recommend you at least have 6 GB.

    Also please be aware that Photoshop Elements 11 is not the current version of this software title.  The current version of Photoshop Elements 12 which has the same hard drive space requirements.  You can find the system requirements for Photoshop Elements 12 at http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements/tech-specs.html.