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| Are you referring to the disk cache? If so, then purging the disk cache in After Effects CC 12.2 should purge all of the disk caches for the previous versions. > -----Original Message----- > From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 12:26 PM > To: After Effects Mail List > Subject: [AE] AE CC hoarding point updates? > > I just came across an issue this morning when the infamous Mac "Disk space > almost full" message popped up. I was a bit confused as to why. After a bit of > detective work and disk scanning for large files I came across a MASSIVE > cache folder for AE CC, but not just CC 12.2, it also had 12.1, and 12.0. Is AE no > longer updating over the major version and cleaning up the mess of the old > version? I found that every single cache file since version 12.0 still existed. I > had over 185gb of space being used for no reason what so ever. Not cool. > Upon finding this, I also noticed that of course the preferences folder > followed suit, but only 2mb of extra trash here. So having a new folder > structure get created with each point release is a big slip in my opinion. If the > content was still accessible, that's one thing, but it can't, so there is no need > for it. I'm curious how many other extra AECC related folders exist that I'm > not even aware of. > > Todd, can we find out if this is known/being looked into or am I missing a > check box that I should be clicking when doing point updates for AE CC? > Thanks. > > > > -- > David Torno > Technical Director > http://www.ghosttownmedia.com > O: 213.739.2290 > C: 818.391.6060 > ------------------------------------------------ > http://aeioweyou.blogspot.com (vfx tutorials and AE scripts blog) > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
