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Plug-In filled hard drive?
Hello!
I’m sort of self teaching myself as I go and I have downloaded I believe my first “plug-in” if I’m using that term correctly. Perhaps “extensions” I had to activate an allow extensions option.
It was a “pack” of free graphics from a company called Motion Factory. It seems like it was just a bunch of full on AE files, like projects, that you can then select and plop right in to any project and tweak. But there are a TON I’m not gonna use. Will it affect the usability of the plugin if I delete the files I don’t use? Can I transfer this all to the D drive on my laptop for storage or does it have to be on the C drive with the software to ‘find’ it?
I’m good with software but if you can’t tell I’m not all that tech savy when it comes to how computers work within themselves. But my C drive is almost full and AE is giving me warnings that the disk is full and the cache is full and it wont work correctly because of it.
Thanks for any help in this regard.
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I wasn’t clear… I’ve been doing some basic stuff for a few years. I do need to do more training but I have bad luck surfing youtube for tutorials. I’ll check out some of these official ones for sure though.
But they’re not templates… Its extensions that I’m new to. I go up to the menu and its in the window drop-down under “Expressions”. I don’t know if I delete all those other project folders that I don’t need, and keep the ones I do, will the “extension” itself still work or will the whole thing be corrupted and just not open or launch or whatever the term is for extensions.
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Hello,
If you would like to gain free space on our hard drive by deleting some of the unwanted extension files make sure that you won’t delete the dependencies for the .ae project file you are actually using.
As for the rest IF the are indeed just AE template file you should be ok to delete.
The tutorial below will hopefully help you to identify the dependencies you need to keep to your template functional after deleting the unwanted files:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqYTT525npk
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