Media cache in several folders

[xenatorres]

My media cache only, as far as I knew, was in one folder location. Now, I am finding the ridiculously oversized audio files all over the place, which is utterly destroying the free space on my C drive. I don't know if this is a bug, but I never used to have this problem. 

Currently, I have found in the hidden folder in the main user "AppData" folder under "Roaming->Adobe->Common" in the "Media Cache" and "Media Cache Files" (where it's always been) and also under "Peak Files." The strange additional location that I have no idea why it's putting them there also is under the "Public" user folder in the "Public Documents" folder ("Media Cache" and "Media Cache Files).

I have a few questions:

1) How to I find if there's any other places Adobe is putting the files? I need to DELETE these space sucking monsters if there's anymore any place for old projects.

2) Why is Premiere making multiple files of these giant sound files and putting them in multiple locations? How do I make sure it stops doing this?

3) Why are the sound files so ridiculously large anyway? Can I make them not be? Better yet, can I make it not do this at all? I really don't understand why Premeire makes these secondary sound files instead of just using the actual sound on the actual footage. If it has to do it for some reason, it at least shouldn't need multiple copies of the same sound file (it never has before - this is a recent issue).

4) Can I move my cache. I want to get it off my C drive entirely and have it all in ONE location on my much bigger D drive.

Thank you.

[Carlos Ziade · Accepted solution]

Preferences -> Media Cache  and change the location

consider cleaning your media cache as well...

Try to check use proxies from Media

Are you using Team Projects?

Concerning files being stored in Public Documents,

different user profiles or admin vs. standard user accounts

might cause cache files to be stored in public documents.

[xenatorres]

I have no idea what a Team project is, so I can only assume I am not doing that.

I am not sure what you mean about use profiles/admin/etc. I've never set anything for that.

Thanks for the Media cache setting info - I deleted everything from there and moved my folders to my larger D drive. Hope that does it!

[Douglas17655789azyy]

Did this work?
I've set Media Cache to an external drive but Adobe is still filling up my local drive with 70GB+ of cache and peak files. It would probably take many hours to rebuild for these large projects so I'm trying to figure out if anyone else has successfully gotten their Media Cache files to actually store on an external drive.

[xenatorres]

Yes it did! All the cache goes to my 1TB D drive now. SO much better!