Comments on: A funny thing happened while I was googling “patcher1048″

By: Kalle

Kalle — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:49:04 +0000

I just searched the Adobe User Forums because I had the same problem (my patcher folder wasted about 1gb) and they said it’s safe to delete it

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:32:38 +0000

The questions is, are they safe to remove and only required for installing the patch? I assume removing them will make it impossible to uninstall the patch, but I also don’t want the Adobe Updater thinking it needs to re-update for patches it’s already installed. I have about 3.5 GB of these files and I really could use that space back. I guess I’ll search the Adobe User Forums…

By: Vremster

Vremster — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:29:56 +0000

These are patches for various Adobe applications. I have the CS3 Master Suite, and Adobe has left 2.75 GB (yes, gigabytes) of these patch files on my hard drive. I found out what they were by simply running one of the PatcherApplication.exe files manually.

By: ado

ado — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:16:27 +0000

\AppData\Local\Temp\Patcher\Patcher3800\StagingArea\2273 212 bytes
AppData\Local\Temp\Patcher\Patcher4232\PBSLocalizedStrings\PBSLocalization\cs_CZ\PBS.zdct 5,88KB

Strings like this?

Now i use CCleaner and got hundred like this…I have CS3..is this adobe soft?

By: Stenogirl

Stenogirl — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:57:35 +0000

Heh, I just googled “patcher1048″ and you WERE the only result that came up. Freaky.

By: MaikR

MaikR — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:56:18 +0000

Try searching “Patcher StagingArea”, both part of the file paths. You end up with a clue… Adobe Patcher.

After that search for “Adobe Patcher Temp” to make sure those files are left-overs by the Adobe update application.

Damn careless if you ask me; leaving your customers’ PC with hundreds of MB’s of crap.

By: Doc Shazam

Doc Shazam — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:39:53 +0000

Wow, thanks for the insight. Glad to see that some computer geeks read Doc Shazam as well. LOL. I’ve never used computational chemistry software on this laptop (that I’m aware of), but I do install and unistall a lot of stuff to try it out.

I’ve never done train simulation games either, but it sounds like it could be fun!

By: DJMoore

DJMoore — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:35:41 +0000

My apologies if I'm stating the obvious: I tried a search for "patcher pbs", which turned up a link for something called "WebMO", computational chemistry software. Or are you interested in train simulation games? I think file names like this ("abcd####.xyz", where "####" is random digits) arise because the #### sequence is assigned at install or runtime. Some viruses do this as deliberate obfuscation, but lots of legitimate applications do as well, particularly TEMP files. I've also seen cases, mostly viruses, where executables (.EXE, .DLL, etc,) have random alphabetical filenames (e.g., "QGTYX.DLL") What intrigues me is that there are so few hits for the "zdct" file extension, none of which immediately strike me as relevant.