Saving space - deleting temporary files
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Hi there
Can anyone please help?
I am running out of space on my C: drive which is a smaller SSD. I am trying to find out where all my temp files are stored, so that I can move these to other drives.
I am running Photoshop, Bridge & Lightroom.
I have moved the main folders to another drive already, but I am still needing more space freed up.
Any ideas please?
Many thanks
Graham
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Bridge preferences:
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Photoshop:
... and temp directory!
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Lightroom.
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Did you move your Scratch Disk already? That's even more important.
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Yes, I have already amended all of the settings shown in these posts.
I was hoping that there were other less known-about temporary files or folders that could help save space.
Thanks
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You need to delete the old files...as you just changed the pointers.
All you can set is in the preferences.
You could install programs on a secondary disk, but if that is an external one, you should leave it as it is. And if the second disk is not a ssd you will see huge performance problems during the starting of the programs.
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Have you started checking the size of folders in APPDATA and elsewhere? You can waste enormous amounts of time (I know I have) trying to tune things which just have nothing to save.
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You can also try looking into:
C:\Users\Gh\AppData\Local\Adobe\CameraRaw
there you can find cache folders
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