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What the hell, Autodesk?

NoctHorn
By NoctHorn
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Story time:

 

So I have recently been frustrated with running out of storage space on my SSD (Was down to 12GB left).  I just kept getting the feeling that space was continually being taken up even though I wasn't downloading anything.  Using SpaceSniffer, I found out that about 30GB of space was marked as unaccessible.  I asked you guys on the forums and it was dismissed as normal stuff.  This was about a week ago.

 

Today, I decided to uninstall the unused Autodesk programs I have (I have AutoCad and Inventor).  I'm talking about the generally useless ones like Autodesk 360 (Which for some reason would be running in the background).  I uninstall the programs and restart the computer.  Checking my drive space, I see that the free space jumped up from 12GB to 40GB!  I immediately panicked because I thought that something must have gone wrong.  These programs I uninstalled were only supposed to total a few gigabytes.  When I checked SpaceSniffer, the unaccessible space dropped down to a more reasonable 5GB.  What the hell was Autodesk doing with 25GB of space???

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It's heavy.

I only use Inventor but the rest of the packaged stuff is huge.

I realize but when I installed the programs, they weren't taking up all that space.  From what I am gathering, autodesk 360 was continually doing something to take up space.

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How much did you use the programs? Did you create anything that would be that big? Or alot of small things?

I don't use it particularly heavily.  The total size of the files I have created with the program would be <2GB

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I realize but when I installed the programs, they weren't taking up all that space.  From what I am gathering, autodesk 360 was continually doing something to take up space.

I don't know about inventor, but I know that Maya and Mudbox come with a ton of other stuff

-Backburner

-FBX plug-ins

-Composite

-Application manager

-Direct Connect

Linus Sebastian said:

The stand is indeed made of metal but I wouldn't drive my car over a bridge made of it.

 

https://youtu.be/X5YXWqhL9ik?t=552

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