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Manne_M
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May 19, 2012
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Harddisk usage/space problem with Premiere Pro CS6 trial

  • May 19, 2012
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Hello,

a few days ago I installed Premiere Pro CS6 trial on my C:\ drive (about 9GB free space of which 2GB or 3GB was needed for installation). After launching Premiere I changed all preferences for scratch disks etc. to my D:\ drive. I've been editing yesterday and I saw that my C:\ drive was completly full, only 1MB left. Didn't install/changed anything to my PC, just have been editing.

So finally I decided to uninstall Premiere altogether and reinstall it at D:\. Turns out that after uninstalling I suddenly have only 2,2GB left of the original 9GB before installation! So it seems that some temp files are still somewhere (even though  all my other temp settings like Windows Temp folder are also located at 😧 ).

I'm starting to get a bit fed up right now, because there's no transparacy in what Premiere has done during installation and why, after uninstallation, it still takes up about 5GB on my precious SSD space

Any help  is greatly appreciated!

EDIT: after installing it on D:\ yet again my available disk space went down from 2,2GB to 1,3GB on C:\. So Premiere is taking up about 8GB on a disk I haven't installed it on and is not used for scratch disks.

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    Correct answer Harm_Millaard

    Check your C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe directory for superfluous data.

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    jackk5270891
    jackk5270891
    Participant
    April 7, 2018

    Im having the same issues, last night I freed up 30gb of space on my SSD which is where Premiere automatically installed, then after editing just one video it chewed through pretty much all of the 30gb, I freed up about 19gb a few hours ago, and after working for a few hours that 19gb is gone and my SSD is nearly full. I dont understand how premiere has used up so much space.

    Apparently it is possible to uninstall premiere and reinstall it onto another drive? will I lose all my work if I do that?

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      Anonymous
      March 11, 2020

      Same thing is happening with me. Around 30 gb of ssd space had gone during compilation.

      I have checked both locations given below but couldn't find that blue whale who ate that space.

      C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache Files and C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\Temp 

       

      NB: I compiled from hard drive to ssd.

       

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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      May 19, 2012

      I guess you need a larger C: drive.

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        Manne_MAuthor
        Participant
        May 20, 2012

        Well, I'm very concious about what I install, especially because I don't have so much free space any more. But right now Premiere somehow has taken up at least 7GB of "ghost space" so to speak, and I'm unable to get it back, even after uninstalling the whole package. This is really a problem, is there some kind of tool to clean up Adobe installations after uninstalling them? Or something else I can do?

        To be honest this problem has made me a bit angry, because there is absolutely no transparency about what is taking up this space and no way to get it back either (so far). And Windows is flipping on me because there is not so much free space any more. I don't feel like reformatting my harddrive again just because Premiere decided to somehow take up ghost space and not giving it back after uninstalling  

          Harm_Millaard
          Harm_MillaardCorrect answer
          Inspiring
          May 20, 2012

          Check your C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe directory for superfluous data.

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