![]() ![]() To get access to the folders, go to the Previous Versions tab (on the Properties form above).Ĭlick on Temporary Internet Files and click Open. You'll see below that Windows shows it as having 0 subdirectories and 81 files (and that is in fact all you can see) where as the Properties for the subdirectory shows 96 files and 71 folders.Ĭhanging your Windows Explorer settings to 'Show Hidden files', and 'Not hide System files' will make no difference. But here's the problem: If you go and look at the Temporary Internet Files folder in Windows Explorer the directories are hidden. If you've got this far then you know roughly where the files are. 7z file using WinRAR, extracted it to a directory (costing me another 2.7GB ) and was able to install it. After downloading it, it wouldn't launch the installer. Or if the installer file needs to decompress, you can manually decompress it to a directory and run the installer from there.įor example, in my case I downloaded a Trial of Abode Premiere which came in at 2.74 GB. Solving this one is easy enough – you just need to find where the hidden files are (that crazy directory path above), right click on the and Run as Administrator. As a result, the installer extracts its files but then bombs out, and you end up getting all frustrated at how poor the user experience with Adobe products is. It quite often leads to a problem with installing (eg if you're running UAC on Vista) because the files don't get the Administrator access they require. I'm sure there is some well intentioned reason for this – most likely related to security privileges – but frankly, it is a crazy notion. It is actually downloading into something like Internet Files\Virtualized\C\Users\craigb\Downloads\Adobe\Premiere\ The don't tell you this of course, so whilst you think it's downloading into:Ĭ:\Users\craigb\Downloads\Abode\Premiere\ This is because Adobe in their wisdom, hide the download files in a hidden virtualized directory underneath your Temporary Internet Files directory. ![]() If you've downloaded an Adobe product lately using their Download Manager you might have got frustrated because you suddenly found yourself with way less hard disk space than you thought you would. SOLUTION: Find the hidden files underneath the \Temporary Internet Files\ directory As a result your install doesn't work, and further you can't find the hidden files to delete them. PROBLEM: Adobe Download Manager hides files on your hard disk. ![]()
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