Adobe Reader Footprint Forensics (was RE: [tdf-discuss] New "LibreOffice Reader" ...)

Another question just occurred to me:

If the installed footprint for an Adobe Reader is 6GB, how was it installed?  Surely it was not by 
Internet Download?  And that would tax the capacity of a DVD-ROM.

I think it might be very important to establish what is consuming all of that hard-drive space on 
someone's machine.  

 - Dennis

PS: My complete installation of Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business has a footprint of 632MB, 
although there are more files (about 310MB) in a separate Common Files folder shared among 
Microsoft applications.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] 
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 12:48
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: RE: [tdf-discuss] New "LibreOffice Reader" Eliminates Need for "PDF Reader"

I checked the size of C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\ on my remaining Windows XP SP3 computer, 
and the size is 137MB, smaller than the 181MB for Reader 10.0 on my Windows 7 system.

So I still don't have any way to account for the reported observation of a 6GB folder.  I don't 
doubt it, I just can't attribute it to the normal installation footprint of Adobe Reader.

It would be interesting to know what folders within the 6GB Reader folder are the largest and what 
they appear to contain.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Derman [mailto:robert.derman@pressenter.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 11:55
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] New "LibreOffice Reader" Eliminates Need for "PDF Reader"

Sean White wrote:
> I dont thinks thats normal somehow, i have been using Adobe Reader for years
> and have NEVER had it come past 200MB.
>
> Back to discussion, what's with all the PDF hate. 
Actually I don't hate PDF, I use it frequently and as such I am glad 
that OOo and LO have the capability of outputting in that format.  My 
only real complaint is that Adobe has let their reader application 
become unnecessarily bloated, see below. 

[ ... ] 
> > Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > My Windows 7 C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\ folder is 181 MB.
> > >
> > > Where do you get the 6 GB?
> > >       
> > I simply right clicked on the folder that contains adobe reader 9 and
> > nothing else, the rest of the Adobe products are in a folder one level up
> > that also contains the reader folder, in any case when I click properties,
> > that is the size it lists, in fact to be more exact 6.2 gigabytes.  I did
> > the same with the folder containing LibreOffice, and it listed the size of
> > that as 475 megabytes.  So I am pretty much forced to believe it.  Perhaps
> > Adobe is going in the right direction again in the transition from reader 9
> > to reader 10, and dumping some unnecessary crap.
[ ... ]


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