Is After Effects Gobbling Up Your Hard Drive?

Monday, April 20th, 2009

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I recently discovered that After Effects (CS3) wasn’t deleting it’s Media Cache files when I quit the application. The folder had swelled to 6.19 GB.

I’m not sure if this is a bug in CS3, or if all versions of AE suffered from this problem. But, if you’re an After Effects user you may want to make sure you haven’t (unnecessarily) lost some drive space. On a Mac, the folder is located at ~/Library/Caches/Adobe/After Effects CS3/Media Cache Files. You can either manually toss the content of the folder, or you can open AE on go to the Memory & Cache preferences and click, Clean Database & Cache.

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5 Comments to Is After Effects Gobbling Up Your Hard Drive?

  1. thanks for the tip – I’ve got 2GB worth of stuff – and most of it from old projects…

    2. jason on April 21st, 2009

  2. Yeah! I literally JUST found this out after a file from this folder wouldn’t defrag. I’m going to start checking on this folder more regularly!!

    3. Sarah on July 17th, 2009

  3. 2GB?

    I checked mine and found nearly 20GB of stuff that AE had conveniently forgot to delete!!!

    4. Michael F. on April 2nd, 2010

  4. Thank you so much for this… I had 189GB of memory and I was going crazy because I didn’t know how to delete it.

    5. Chris on July 1st, 2010

  5. Thanks for the tip, mine was 10GB

    6. Michael Folorunsho on August 27th, 2010

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