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Maxstar Maxstar Posts: 35 Filters: 5	Having problems with "disappearing" hard drive space I started some analyzers. One thing I found is that Filter Forge takes about 1Gb of disk drive space in a user preferences file (User/AppData/Roaming/FilterForge 6) where the most of space is taken by the previous installation files - it's like downloaded update files are kept there and never get deleted after the installation. But before deleting them is a question - is it safe?
	Posted: August 28, 2017 9:19 am	Details E-Mail
GMM Moderator Filter Forge, Inc Posts: 3491	Thank you for bringing this to our attention - we never thought it can be an issue. Yes, after you install the latest version you are perfectly safe to remove old installers. I believe the installer could do this sort of cleanup itself.
	Posted: August 28, 2017 10:10 am	Details E-Mail
Maxstar Maxstar Posts: 35 Filters: 5	Glad to assist in improvement. Just to be sure - those are the regular update files like Filer Forge 6.008 Setup.exe etc. And found them in Filter Forge 6, Filter Forge 5 and even Filter Forge 4 (that I deleted, but all user preferences are still there) Roaming files. All together good to free 2Gb drive space. Deleted the update files (and the whole Filter Forge 4 user Preferences). Filter Forge 6 is still working
	Posted: August 28, 2017 12:25 pm	Details E-Mail

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