3 Replies Latest reply: Dec 6, 2014 1:03 PM by detrital RSS

    AIperformance.log - Can this be deleted?

    xwiredx Community Member

      Hello everyone!

      I have recently found that an Adobe Illustrator log file name 'AIPerformance.log' is taking up 699mb of my SSD storage. It's located in Library/Logs/Adobe Illustrator 17/. I have tried to search Google, but came across only one slightly older thread of someone in this same situation, unfortunately there was no answer to whether what this is and if it can be deleted. My particular file says it was created in March and modified in May, but I have been using Illustrator all the way through to today.

       

      Is this something I can delete and regain some SSD space?

       

      I am currently on Yosemite 10.10.1 and my Ai version is 18.1.10.

       

      Thank you very much!

       

      Chris

        • 1. Re: AIperformance.log - Can this be deleted?
          detrital Community Member

          I'm on Windows and have been looking into what's filling up my SSD boot drive and happened upon this AIPerformance.log file too.

           

          I just deleted it (into recycle bin first, just in case!) and booted up Illy to check it works, which it does.

           

          Coupled with Photoshop's propensity to create tmp files and just leave them there, I've just recovered 30Gb from my SSD.

          • 2. Re: AIperformance.log - Can this be deleted?
            xwiredx Community Member

            I have deleted mine also and haven't encountered any problems yet. Still can't find any other info on it.

             

            Would you mind letting me know where these Photoshop temp files are? I have been suspecting for some time that my storage was slowly being chewed up for no reason.

            • 3. Re: AIperformance.log - Can this be deleted?
              detrital Community Member

              I'm afraid I can't remember the exact place I deleted all those files from, but I used 'WinDirStat' to find them (or a program like Disk Inventory X, if you're on Apple — disclaimer: I am not a mac person!) and a load of other files that were bloating up my drives. Good luck!