Install Adobe DNG Converter to D-Drive

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May 22, 2023
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I want to install Adobe DNG Converter to my D-Drive. My C-Drive is a smaller SSD that I am trying to keep primarily for my operating system, so I try to install everything else to the D-Drive. However, when installing the Adobe Digital Negative Converter (an image file converter), it never pauses to allow me to select Drive-D as is typical for most installers, it just proceeds to install on the C-Drive. If you've had experience with this type of installation issue, I would appreciate some advice.

Thanks, Tom

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Jeff Arola

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I think the bulk of the files that are installed by the DNG Converter are the Camera Profiles/Lens Profiles.

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CameraRaw

If you already have a relatively new version of camera raw installed then you already have those folders, though they may not be quite as big as they end up being after installing the DNG Converter.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Indeed, and that's under the user account which goes to the system drive regardless.

If you're low on space, the problem isn't the installed program files. That's not where you save space. What you need to watch is the user account. All your applications dump a lot of stuff here, and it tends to accumulate over time. Some of it can be redirected to other drives, much of it can't.

Just as an example, the Bridge cache goes to the user account by default. If you're a heavy user, this can grow to many tens of gigabytes right there. Luckily, this is one of those things that you can point elsewhere.

People think of a system directory as something static. In reality, there's constant read/write activity. The net sum is usually positive, meaning it grows. And most of it is under your user account.

A "standard" configuration of operating system and a range of applications shouldn't take up much more than around 90-120 GB. If there's much more than that, it's time for housecleaning.

It sounds like you may need to download the free and excellent WinDirStat. It shows you exactly what's filling up your drive, and where it is:

thomasw10771180Author

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I was not expecting this because I’ve never used WinDirStat, but when I add up the percentages it reports for the three listed volumes (59.4% for F:, 32.6% for D:, and 8% for C:), they add up to 100%. So the WinDirStat window seems to mean those percentages are based on 100% being the total for all connected volumes within the scope of My Computer, not just one volume. Which would not be very useful for evaluating free space on any one volume.

But what is useful is your C: Properties screen shot. It shows 90.3GB used on the C: drive and 124GB free, and that seems to be the real situation with the C: drive alone: 42% used.

Thanks much!