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  deleting FileName.cfa files

  Posted by Bob Cole on June 2, 2012 at 2:44 am

  I noticed my system drive (Mac OSX 10.6.8) was filling up, so I used “GrandPerspective,” a utility which makes a graphic view of the size of your files. To my surprise, a large part of my system drive is occupied by files from obsolete projects. The files take these two forms:

  users/(MyUserName)/Library/Caches/Adobe/After Effects CS4/Media Cache Files/FileName.cfa
  and
  users/(MyUserName)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Media Cache Files/Filename.ac3 480000.cfa

  1. Can I safely delete these files? (especially since I’m using CS5.5 now)
  2. Is there a utility within my Adobe programs which will find and delete these files for me with some degree of automation and precision?

  Thanks!

  Bob C

  Bob Cole replied 14 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  June 2, 2012 at 10:01 am

  You can remove cache files from the Prefs dialog. You may also delete obsolete cfa files if they somehow do not get deleted via the Prefs dialog button.

  HTH
  RoRK

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  Bob Cole

  June 6, 2012 at 9:20 am

  Thank you! Never saw that before and glad to know about it.

  Bob C

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