adobepatchfiles

[Tiny Film]

Can I delete my adobepatchfiles, when on creative cloud?

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

Moving this discussion to the Creative Cloud Download & Install forum.

Tiny Film which Adobe patch files in specific are you referencing?  Do you have a file name?  What Adobe software title did you recently install?

[Tiny Film]

I am have recently installed CC versions of photoshop, premiere, after effects and muse. I discovered a subfolder in my application folder called "Adobe." This folder contains five items: "Adobe Application Manager Enterprice Edtion" - "Adobe Content viewer" - "Adobe help" - "AdobePatchFiles" and "Flash Player. - The "AdobePatchFiles" subfolder contains zipped files called names as:

0A7EEBA6-AF53-4964-9EF7-850F307644F7}.zip

- and there is 1,2 GB of these files, and I was just wondering, if they were remains from earlier versions of your applications? I have been using your products for years, and I would like to keep only the necesary files.

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

Tiny Film I would be happy to verify these files exist.  What operating system are you using exactly?  Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

[Tiny Film]

I am using Mac OS 10.7.5 - I guess that is 64-bit?

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

Tiny Film I can confirm that I have similar files and sizes in my Applications/Adobe folder.  These are part of the shared resources which are installed when the Creative Cloud applications are installed.

[Tiny Film]

All right, Jeff, I guess this means, that I can not delete these files. Please confirm.

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

This is correct please do not delete the files.

[Guest]

if all companys do it this way 50% of our SSDs space would be wasted for backups of already installed updates and bugfixes. 

why is adobe wasting my money and storage space this way?

what is the reason to have this files (backups of installed updates) stored on my system?

[Blue Shift Art Team 1]

I strongly agree with Peter Porchert. Disk space on my OS drive is scarce and having 1.2 gb of stored .zip files is sloppy and wasteful. If Adobe needs to keep track of its program updates, it should be using a text manifest, not just throwing the whole zip for each update into the closet in case it needs to check the file hash later.

To put this in perspective:

c:/Program Files(x86) = 10.1GB

c:/Program Files/ = 8.0GB

c:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles/ = 1.2GB

If you add in the 514MB stored setup files in my Acrobat directory that comes out to almost 2GB.

C:/Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Acrobat 11.0/Setup Files/ = 518MB

Let's do some math, shall we?

(1.2+0.52) / (10.1+8.0) = 0.0950276243093923

SO

Adobe patch files, plus acrobat setup leftovers = ~10% of my entire non-operating-sytem application disk usage.

Why do I have this just-in-case app backup that is easily accessible from the cloud. Considering that I have no way to re-install any of my CC software unless I am connected online, I can not imagine why having locally cached backups should be a requirement. 

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[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

Blue Shift Art Team 1 it is dependent on how the different applications titles are offering their updates.  Some applications have this requirement others do not.  Thank you for this feedback.

[gettrix]

Adobe: Your installer team needs to fix this problem. Move Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles where it belongs, in Library/Application Support/Adobe. Release updates that reflect this change so we can move or delete this stupid misplaced folder. There should be no standard folder icons in the applications folder without the USER deciding to put it there, it is called APPLICATIONS for a reason.