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shawnotay
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March 23, 2024
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Selecting the Remove Tool creates LARGE cache folder

  • March 23, 2024
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Photoshop v25.6
macOS Sonoma 14.4


When the Remove Tool is selected as the active tool a new cache folder is created here...

~user/Library/Caches/com.adobe.Photoshop/com.apple.e5rt.e5bundlecache

Every time the Remove Tool is selected as the active tool an additional 555 Mb gets added to this cache folder - every time the tool is selected. This new cache folder does not get cleaned up when Photoshop exits or if the computer is restarted. This cache folder is not affected by the Edit > Purge All command. Also, if the Remove Tool was the last tool used when Photoshop was closed, it will be the active tool next time Photoshop starts, which puts an additional 555 Mb into that cache folder. The above behavior occurs without having an image document open. This new cache folder quickly gets very large and never gets auto cleaned up. The behavior has been duplicated on three different Macs.

Deleting the folder has no effect as the folder gets created again the next time the Remove Tool is selected as the active tool.

What can be done? The folder quickly can grow in size to over 20+ GB in just one day. Thanks in advance.

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    Ilya esprit83
    Participant
    December 16, 2024

    I have the same thing on mac studio m1ultra. The only thing that saves is that the storage is 1TB, I clear 100+GB every time

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    Eric Chia
    Participant
    October 2, 2024

    same thing here... MacOS Sequoia 15.0 with Photoshop 25.12.0,  mine growth to 276Gb just in 2 weeks. i heavily use remove tool and i notice that everytime i turn on Ps, it will create a folder of 569MB, even without doing aything yet.

     

    Adobe please do something to fix this issue. The cache file should be deleted once we exit Ps.

     

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      markd68597363
      Participant
      October 22, 2024
      The cache should empty itself after every closed image! I have to process 500 images a day under massive time pressure and after every eighth image I get a memory error that there is not enough memory for the liquefaction tool and Photoshop has to be closed. 
And my computer definitely doesn't have 64GB VRAM, Windows 11, RTX 4080, i7 13xxx and 5TB SSD.
But Photoshop and Bridge are getting worse from version to version. Photoshop CS6 was significantly better.
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        Tiago34759314fhbn
        Participant
        September 25, 2024

        Mac OS Sequoia 15.0 / Photoshop 25.12

         

        Same here on both my iMac M3 and Macbook M1 Max . I constantly use Remove Tool, this folder "~user/Library/Caches/com.adobe.Photoshop/com.apple.e5rt.e5bundlecache" is eating up +300GB of SSD storage and it doesn't get automatically cleaned. I gotta do it manually everytime.

         

        PLEASE FIX IT.

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          shawnotayAuthor
          Participating Frequently
          March 23, 2024

          Thanks for the reply Jeff, that is good to know. I wish Photoshop would clean up (delete) after itself rather than leave them on the hard drive forever.

            Jeff Arola
            Community Expert
            Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            March 23, 2024

            It seems having Photoshop 2024>Settings >Image Processing>Remove Tool Processing set to More Stable produces those huge cache files.

             

            Changing the setting to Faster produces substantially smaller cache files.

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