
We can go ahead and delete those files manually from the C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Common\Media Cache Files folder if you need even more additional disk space. The 15.5 GB of files must be those which are of projects that are still active. It didn’t clear everything but I did get back 34.4 GBs which were consumed by useless files. I can right click on it to see its properties.Īfter cleaning up the cache by following the steps above, the folder is just 15.5 GB. If you have not guessed it already, the largest files are stored in the Media Cache Files sub-folder. When I browse to the folder, I see four more sub-folders-AME, Media Cache, Media Cache Files and PTX. It might be different depending upon your operating system. In my case, it is: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\Common. On the preferences screen, you also must have noticed that the directory which is used by Adobe Premiere for storing its media cache files. It takes a few moments for the process to complete and a progress bar will notify you.Īfter completion, a significant amount of disk space is cleared. Hit Ok to close the Preferences dialog.

Under Media Cache Database, click on Clean.I use Windows 10 and Adobe Premiere Pro CC. So, this post is dedicated to help you and even help me remember how to clear Media Cache Database stored by Adobe Premier to free up consumed disk space that’s as high as 50 GB. You have to clear this cache manually to free up disk space.

It seems to be the limit and this limit is eating up 10% of my hard drive. Right now, in my computer, I can see that around 50 GB (49.9 GB) of storage is used up by the Media Cache Database.

Yes, when you have a project, those cache files makes sense but they seem to stay even after a project is deleted. Premiere doesn’t seem to clean up those files just to free up your valuable drives. And when you have media files in your cache, know that they consume a large percentage of your hard drive.Premiere doesn’t seem Adobe Premiere also stores those videos in its Media Cache Database for quick access. Granted that it edits videos and videos are large in size and when you have such large files in your computer, you are bound to use a lot of storage. If you happen to use Adobe Premiere Pro to edit and publish videos, then you might have noticed that a large amount of disk space is consumed by it.
