If you are using photoshop for a while, you just have gone from Photoshop 2020 to Photoshop 2021. but if you are using Photoshop for a really long time, like me, you may even go back to Photoshop 2015. Or even CS6, who knows…
Here is the thing, each time that you update, photoshop keeps a copy of many of your options, settings, brushes, presets, and many more. Adobe is clever to not purge those folders when you update. Who knows, maybe a bug will force you to revert…
But, apparently, you can definitely throw away the older version and save quite a bit of space. (The same can be said for space-saving with Lightroom, I guess Adobe does not care about space when they push an update)
Two words of warning though:
- Always save the last version, Adobe sometimes does mess up and you need to revert.
- make sure that you have copied all your brushes, presets, and other settings (each program will have its own)
On windows
- Access the AppData folder by running the %appdata% command from the Run menu
- enter the roaming folder, enter the Adobe folder
- backup what you want.
- delete all the previous versions.
On Mac
- Access the Application Support folder by running the finder app selecting the goto menu and hitting the option key (Application Support is the mac’s equivalent of the AppData folder)
- enter the roaming folder, enter the Adobe folder
- back up what you want.
- delete all the previous versions.
For my laptop, I saved about a gig of data from photoshop alone. How much did you save?
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