More Adobe garbage dumps.

[Redcrown]

I monitor my Windows disks closely to seek and destroy temporary files that some software leaves behind. I just discovered a ton of new junk that Adobe leaves behind in the system "temp" folder. By default, this folder is on the system (C drive under the Users/"yourname"/AppData/Local/Temp folder. These Adobe files are a recent add, so I suspect some recent update to Photoshop and Camera Raw are the source.

After a recently processing about 120 raw images, I noticed this temp folder had ballooned to over 2.5 GB. I found a large number of files with names like PhotoshopTemp7775275612. All fairly small (1.5 KB), but they add up. Then I discovered these are image files. They are B&W masks I had created in Photoshop and Camera Raw, plus small sections of images where I had done an AI removals. For each removal there were 3 separate but similar image files, apparently for the 3 versions of a removal that Adobe creates. I had hundreds of them from the session.

After closing out all Adobe software, these files remain. Forever, apparently, until you manually delete them. Adobe does not "clean up". So when you back up your system drive you are carrying this extra and useless weight.

 

[Jim B (MSP)]

I monitor my Windows disks closely to seek and destroy temporary files that some software leaves behind. I just discovered a ton of new junk that Adobe leaves behind in the system "temp" folder. By default, this folder is on the system (C drive under the Users/"yourname"/AppData/Local/Temp folder. These Adobe files are a recent add, so I suspect some recent update to Photoshop and Camera Raw are the source.

After a recently processing about 120 raw images, I noticed this temp folder had ballooned to over 2.5 GB. I found a large number of files with names like PhotoshopTemp7775275612. All fairly small (1.5 KB), but they add up. Then I discovered these are image files. They are B&W masks I had created in Photoshop and Camera Raw, plus small sections of images where I had done an AI removals. For each removal there were 3 separate but similar image files, apparently for the 3 versions of a removal that Adobe creates. I had hundreds of them from the session.

After closing out all Adobe software, these files remain. Forever, apparently, until you manually delete them. Adobe does not "clean up". So when you back up your system drive you are carrying this extra and useless weight.

Thanks.

I just took a quick look at mine.

Lots of strange files.

Mine is only .5G in size, has a lot of junk in it, some of it related to the new LRC (I think).

I'll keep an eye on it.

 

[ppage]

I monitor my Windows disks closely to seek and destroy temporary files that some software leaves behind. I just discovered a ton of new junk that Adobe leaves behind in the system "temp" folder. By default, this folder is on the system (C drive under the Users/"yourname"/AppData/Local/Temp folder. These Adobe files are a recent add, so I suspect some recent update to Photoshop and Camera Raw are the source.

After a recently processing about 120 raw images, I noticed this temp folder had ballooned to over 2.5 GB. I found a large number of files with names like PhotoshopTemp7775275612. All fairly small (1.5 KB), but they add up. Then I discovered these are image files. They are B&W masks I had created in Photoshop and Camera Raw, plus small sections of images where I had done an AI removals. For each removal there were 3 separate but similar image files, apparently for the 3 versions of a removal that Adobe creates. I had hundreds of them from the session.

After closing out all Adobe software, these files remain. Forever, apparently, until you manually delete them. Adobe does not "clean up". So when you back up your system drive you are carrying this extra and useless weight.

All kinds of software leaves junk in that folder. Once a month I routinely delete everything in that folder as well as the Windows temp folder (“C:\Windows \Temp”) and I don't worry too much about who left what there or why.

 

[Keit ll]

Wise Care 365 allows you to find & delete these files quickly.

 

[Toermalijn]

I monitor my Windows disks closely to seek and destroy temporary files that some software leaves behind. I just discovered a ton of new junk that Adobe leaves behind in the system "temp" folder. By default, this folder is on the system (C drive under the Users/"yourname"/AppData/Local/Temp folder. These Adobe files are a recent add, so I suspect some recent update to Photoshop and Camera Raw are the source.

After a recently processing about 120 raw images, I noticed this temp folder had ballooned to over 2.5 GB. I found a large number of files with names like PhotoshopTemp7775275612. All fairly small (1.5 KB), but they add up. Then I discovered these are image files. They are B&W masks I had created in Photoshop and Camera Raw, plus small sections of images where I had done an AI removals. For each removal there were 3 separate but similar image files, apparently for the 3 versions of a removal that Adobe creates. I had hundreds of them from the session.

After closing out all Adobe software, these files remain. Forever, apparently, until you manually delete them. Adobe does not "clean up". So when you back up your system drive you are carrying this extra and useless weight.

All kinds of software leaves junk in that folder. Once a month I routinely delete everything in that folder as well as the Windows temp folder (“C:\Windows \Temp”) and I don't worry too much about who left what there or why.

Some software monitors the installs and can completely remove the install. It does a better job at un-installing software then Windows. Always leftovers wich you have to remove/delete manually.

 

[ppage]

Wise Care 365 allows you to find & delete these files quickly.

I don't trust third party tools to clean up my machine. I've had problems in the past with one or two of these. And in any case it's easy to find these files. One way is to put shortcuts to the two temp folders on the desktop. I prefer to use the search tool on the taskbar to search for "%temp%” and then “%WinDir%\temp”.

Each time I empty those folders I get rid of hundreds of files that are all quite small and aren't really taking up much room at all, but it's good to delete them from time to time to prevent the hundreds from becoming thousands. It's 90 seconds of work once a month or so.

 

[Redcrown]

Ditto here. I have a Windows CMD batch file (with a Desktop shortcut) that I always run after using anything Adobe. Cleans up junk files and kills services Adobe leaves running. If anybody is interested, here it is:

@echo off
:: BatchGotAdmin
::-------------------------------------
REM --> Check for permissions
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"

REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
echo Requesting administrative privileges...
goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )

:UACPrompt
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
set params = %*:"="
echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c %~s0 %params%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"

"%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
exit /B

:gotAdmin
pushd "%CD%"
CD /D "%~dp0"
::--------------------------------------
@echo on
Taskkill /IM "Creative Cloud.exe" /F
Taskkill /IM CCXProcess.exe /F
Taskkill /IM "Adobe Desktop Service.exe" /F
Taskkill /IM "AdobeUpdateService.exe" /F
Taskkill /IM AdobeIPCBroker.exe /F
Taskkill /IM CCLibrary.exe /F
Taskkill /IM "Creative Cloud UI Helper.exe" /F
Taskkill /IM "Creative Cloud Helper.exe" /F
Taskkill /IM CoreSync.exe /F
Taskkill /IM "Adobe Crash Processor.exe" /F
Taskkill /IM RuntimeBroker.exe /F
Taskkill /IM AdobeNotificationClient.exe /F

del /F /Q "C:\Users\Kelly\AppData\Local\CrashDumps\*.*"
del /F /Q "C:\Users\Kelly\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache Files\*.*"
del /F /Q "C:\Users\Kelly\AppData\Local\Adobe\CameraRaw\BigTableGroupCache\*.*"

REM ChatGPT code to Delete all contents of C:\ProgramData\boost_interprocess\ using PowerShell

powershell -NoProfile -Command "Remove-Item -Path 'C:\ProgramData\boost_interprocess\*' -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue"
echo All contents of C:\ProgramData\boost_interprocess\ have been deleted.

PAUSE

 

[ppage]

Great to see that there are still people around who know how to write batch files. Yours is much more thorough than any I might have taken the time to write; I'll definitely use it.

--
Peter Pagé
Montreal, Canada
https://peterepage.myportfolio.com/

 

[Redcrown]

You're welcome. The first part about getting admin privs I just copied from a Google search. The boost_interprocess stuff used to delete OK with just a normal del/F/Q command, but a recent Adobe update made that fail. Thus the switch to the powershell command. That folder is only used and populated by plugins. The only one I have that does it is Topaz.

Of course, your mileage may vary. Those are all the Adobe services I see on my system. You may have more or less.

Also note that every time you update something with Creative Cloud, it turns the AdobeUpdateService back to "Automatic", so it loads every time you boot and just sits there even if you don't run any Adobe progs. Go into Services and stop/disable it after any CC updates.

P.S. Long retired old coder from 1970 thru 2000. Anybody got an old IBM Mainframe you want hacked, I'm your guy.