Can I now safely delete these left-over Adobe folders?

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Can I now safely delete these left-over Adobe folders?

I recently upgraded the internal drive (500 GB SSD) on my iMac to Big Sur 11.2.3 from Mojave. Before doing so I removed Photoshop CS6 using Adobe´s de-installer. I got a window confirming a successful de-installation.

I have now discovered this left-over 2.25 GB Adobe folder in /Library/Application Support/Adobe. As I now have no Adobe software on my iMac is it safe to delete this large and apparently superfluous/useless folder? There are also several tiny Adobe folders elsewhere. It seems the de-installer didn´t do its job properly. Should I delete all this Adobe left-over stuff or leave things be? Thanks! Regards, Ian.

iMac Pro

Posted on Apr 24, 2021 10:05 AM

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Barney-15E

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Apr 24, 2021 6:29 PM in response to Ian Leckie

Ian Leckie wrote:

Thanks for replying! I look forward to deleting all that junk tomorrow. It‘s shocking that an official de-installer app left over 2 GB of junk on my drive. Evil indeed! Cheers, Ian.

Well, technically, the stuff in the Applications Support folder is generally your data, not app data. Some people may want to keep all of the configuration setups and such because they are intending to reinstall it. They should put an option in the uninstaller, though.

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Barney-15E

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Apr 24, 2021 1:43 PM in response to Ian Leckie

You can delete them.

And, congratulations for ridding yourself of that evil company.

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Ian Leckie Author

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Apr 24, 2021 2:23 PM in response to Barney-15E

Thanks for replying! I look forward to deleting all that junk tomorrow. It‘s shocking that an official de-installer app left over 2 GB of junk on my drive. Evil indeed! Cheers, Ian.

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Can I now safely delete these left-over Adobe folders?

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