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brucine Posted messages 24540 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   -

I recently deleted the Adobe folder in ProgramData without thinking too much, are there any risks that things in Windows might stop working?

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Panth33ra Posted messages 23055 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   Ambassadeur 2 348
 

Hello as well,

Keep politeness in mind (Hello/Thank you), it's also nice to be polite on the CCM Forum...

As for the "ProgramData" directory, it concerns all Adobe programs, not Windows. To avoid this inconvenience, the directory should be hidden by default (Right-click - Properties - Hidden Attribute).
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Hello,

It seems to me that you misread my question, or perhaps I formulated it poorly.

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Panth33ra Posted messages 23055 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2 348 > Pseudo
  
  I deleted the Adobe folder in ProgramData without thinking too much,

No, I understood perfectly and my response is indeed about your problem...

 As for the "ProgramData" directory, it is all the Adobe programs that are affected, not Windows. To avoid this mishap, the directory should be hidden by default (Right-click - Properties - Hidden Attribute).
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brucine Posted messages 24540 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 131 > Panth33ra Posted messages 23055 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 

Hello,

The problem lies in "without thinking too much".

I don't see why we should hide any folders in Windows, which doesn’t mean that we can delete something without knowing exactly what we're doing.

Some Adobe files in Program Data and in user folders are common to potentially several Adobe software, but are in no way necessary for Windows to function.

If now, for reasons personal to each person, one has decided to uninstall (properly) all Adobe software from their computer, part of these folders persists, and I don't see why we should not, unfortunately, be forced to delete them manually.

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Panth33ra Posted messages 23055 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   2 348 > brucine Posted messages 24540 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 

On my PC, the "ProgramData" directory is hidden by default. That's how it is.

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brucine Posted messages 24540 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   4 131 > Panth33ra Posted messages 23055 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 

Certainly, I was simply saying that I see no more reason for it to be so than to hide system files or extensions, which does not mean that we will click on them indiscriminately; obviously, when folders are hidden, we can't touch them, but the argument is a bit specious.

It is officially a security measure (except of course in the latter case where it's quite the opposite), but by definition it prevents us from tidying up sensibly or detecting (this could also be a security argument) folders or files that shouldn't be there.

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