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Bloated AppData/Roaming/Adobe folder

Contributor ,
Jun 01, 2011 Jun 01, 2011

I'm running Win7 x64 and noticed I was down to the last 7 GB of storage on my 120GB app disk.  I've only got about 50 GB of apps so it looked like something was amiss.  I did some poking around and discovered the Users/username/AppData/Roaming folder had 41 GB of stuff in it.  36 GB is in one folder, Adobe.  I have Master Collection CS5, but the program files for all of it (stored in another folder, of course) only add up to about 15 GB.  Anybody know what this stuff is for?  Can any of it be safely deleted?  Thanks.

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Jun 01, 2011 Jun 01, 2011

No clue, but since I also have the master suite and a 64 bit windows 7 system, I am just as curious, therefore posting to keep an eye on this thread. .

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Contributor ,
Jun 01, 2011 Jun 01, 2011

How big is your Adobe folder?

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Jun 01, 2011 Jun 01, 2011
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OK, I've figured out the problem.  The sub-folder Common/Media Cache Files stores cached versions of After Effects, Premiere, and Soundbooth files and is not automatically cleansed.  There were hundreds of these .cfa and .pek files that accounted for 99% of the bloat.  See this post and this help file entry.  Problem solved by cleaning the database, deleting some additional unused files, and moving the cache to my scratch disk from my apps SSD.

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