Authorizer folder bug: empty it and free up space (26 GB for me)

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30 Mar 2020

Yeah. Well we’ve been asking for selective downloads since the dawn of REs and been deftly ignored.
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joeyluck wrote: ↑
30 Mar 2020
Ixus wrote: ↑
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19.9 GB removed. Thanks alot!
My 3 TB hdd died recently and my small SSD is getting quite full,so this is very nice!
Great! Was this the Authorizer folder?
I think it was atleast, what the heck did I actually remove!! :shock:

Haha no well the location is as follows Local disk - users- mycompuers name - appdata - local - prop software - reason
and in that Reason folder theres a folder with my computers name with all of those wierd files 19 gb in total.

I just looked now after using Reason once and its up to 350mb.

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Ixus wrote: ↑
30 Mar 2020
joeyluck wrote: ↑
30 Mar 2020


Great! Was this the Authorizer folder?
I think it was atleast, what the heck did I actually remove!! :shock:

Haha no well the location is as follows Local disk - users- mycompuers name - appdata - local - prop software - reason
and in that Reason folder theres a folder with my computers name with all of those wierd files 19 gb in total.

I just looked now after using Reason once and its up to 350mb.
Sounds like you cleared the cache. The Authorizer folder is located here:

macOS:
Users/username/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/Authorizer

Windows: Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Propellerhead Software\Authorizer

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joeyluck wrote: ↑
30 Mar 2020
Ixus wrote: ↑
30 Mar 2020


I think it was atleast, what the heck did I actually remove!! :shock:

Haha no well the location is as follows Local disk - users- mycompuers name - appdata - local - prop software - reason
and in that Reason folder theres a folder with my computers name with all of those wierd files 19 gb in total.

I just looked now after using Reason once and its up to 350mb.
Sounds like you cleared the cache. The Authorizer folder is located here:

macOS:
Users/username/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/Authorizer

Windows: Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Propellerhead Software\Authorizer
LOL you just saved me another 26 GB, My SSD thanks you!

haha :redface:

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Ixus wrote: ↑
30 Mar 2020
joeyluck wrote: ↑
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Sounds like you cleared the cache. The Authorizer folder is located here:

macOS:
Users/username/Library/Application Support/Propellerhead Software/Authorizer

Windows: Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Propellerhead Software\Authorizer
LOL you just saved me another 26 GB, My SSD thanks you!

haha :redface:
Awesome! Sounds like the same as mine. That's the real deal here! :)


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Isn't sync all just for the licenses?

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kitekrazy wrote: ↑
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Isn't sync all just for the licenses?
Sync All will also download any REs from your account that are not on your computer.

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Sorry I kind of derailed the topic here, Joey.

So I guess we have three main ideas in this thread now:

1) Authorizer folder - It's important to know that the Authorizer folder is basically full of useless garbage files, which can be deleted. This was Joey's original point of this thread.

2) Cache folder - The cache folder does serve a purpose, they can be deleted too, and your OS will recreate the files it needs, but the program might run slower doing certain tasks until they are rewritten. This was me confusing everybody and derailing the thread.

3) RE folder/Factory Soundbank refills - these are necessary files for the DAW/REs to run. The Factory Soundbank can't be deleted (Reason won't run without it). The RE folder content can be deleted, but REs won't work without their files. If you don't want an RE, you can remove it from the RE folder, not just from Authorizer.
***IF you delete an RE from your Authorizer app, it's a good idea to go into the RE folder and also delete the files in there manually, because deleting from Authorizer DOES NOT delete them from the RE folder. You could have some big, unwanted REs in there taking up precious space!

I guess you can move the RE folder/Soundbank files to another drive, if you want. Instructions here: viewtopic.php?p=492690#p492690
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Found that Authorizer folder on one of my laptops, just to see the download map only freed like 95mb for me. But the older Macbook 13" (High Sierra), strangely, there is no library folder at all under "usersname" folder.
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hello,

if you are on windows
you can turn off 'hibernate' which will save you around 4-5 gb of memory

blackviper website has many tweaks to reduce disk size, memory / cpu usage
and it's a tiered system to see how aggressive you want to be
very clear, very precise

also
msautoruns program allows you to select which programs you want to start up when you boot the machine
i have a lot of stuff turned off
until i decide to start them
shaves off a lot of time on start up

if you proceed, be sure to take notes and screen shots of programs / services you turn off so you can turn them back on again

at startup my win7 machine only has 50 processes working

i did make some mistakes
but i took notes and was able to get things going again

i turned off my printer
i turned off my audio

however, all is not rotten in denmark for 3 years now

at this point, i don't touch a thing

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seems my computer cleaner program got there first ,only a log file of 1 kb
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littlejam wrote: ↑
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hello,

if you are on windows
you can turn off 'hibernate' which will save you around 4-5 gb of memory

blackviper website has many tweaks to reduce disk size, memory / cpu usage
and it's a tiered system to see how aggressive you want to be
very clear, very precise

also
msautoruns program allows you to select which programs you want to start up when you boot the machine
i have a lot of stuff turned off
until i decide to start them
shaves off a lot of time on start up

if you proceed, be sure to take notes and screen shots of programs / services you turn off so you can turn them back on again

at startup my win7 machine only has 50 processes working

i did make some mistakes
but i took notes and was able to get things going again

i turned off my printer
i turned off my audio

however, all is not rotten in denmark for 3 years now

at this point, i don't touch a thing

jchayote
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joeyluck wrote: ↑
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I was cleaning up my hard drive and I found that my Authorizer folder was over 26 GB! 5 GB more than my RackExtensions folder. I don't know how I didn't catch this before, but I finally noticed.

The Authorizer folder contains a Downloads folder. In that folder are partial RE downloads. When a RE successfully downloads and installs, that '.part' file is automatically removed from that folder.
Thanks for this. I was just cleaning up yesterday and found so much hidden stuff from stopped downloads, hidden files on trees I din't even see, program files logs, blah blah blah. Yeah this stuff can build up. I'm gonna check the locations you mentioned just to be sure.
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I think CCleaner took care of this
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50.6 ... ... ... MB. Wah wah, lol. I was hoping for more to free up some space!

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50.6 ... ... ... MB. Wah wah, lol. I was hoping for more to free up some space!
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Only 603 bytes in mine
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Only 603 bytes in mine
im betting youve got an all in won do everything computer cleaner fixer speeder whatsit , itll add years to the life of your machine
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demt wrote: ↑
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plaamook wrote: ↑
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Only 603 bytes in mine
im betting youve got an all in won do everything computer cleaner fixer speeder whatsit , itll add years to the life of your machine
No. I think it's just that I don't buy that many Re's
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03 Apr 2020

hello,

on windows,
another thing you can do is limit the size of your 'page file'
that'll save another like 4GB of space
i turned mine off completely
yahoo for instructions on how to do it
i have mine turned off for 5 years and still going strong
all my critical files are back up on 2 different hard drives

cheers,

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joeyluck wrote: ↑
29 Mar 2020
challism wrote: ↑
29 Mar 2020
Joey had mentioned to me that he also cleaned out his Reason cache folder/files and freed up a lot of space. He's on a Mac. I'm on Windows. I want to clean out my Reason cache folder for Windows. Does anybody know where I would find that folder?

For reference, the Mac folder is located here: users/username/Library/Caches/Reason
I guess once you figure it out, we can add it to this stickied list:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7514631

It is weird that Reason Preferences (which lets you set the cache location and reset to the "default") doesn't tell you there where the default is...
Cheers gents.
Thanks for asking the question @challism
Just cleared the cache.
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thank you so much for this :thumbs_up: :thumbs_up: I cleared 4gb now to fill that back up with goodies :lol:
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