Unreal Engine 5 consumed over 100 gigabytes rather than 32

So, i downloaded UE5 today and deleted the older versions of the engine and left with 0 bytes of storage usage from UE. Then, i downloaded UE5. I assumed that it would just consume 32 gigabytes or something around that but it got over 100 gigabytes! I re-downloaded it, and still… it consumed 100 gigabytes. (There are no projects.)


Is it your vault? Did you download the city example project, for example?

Well no, i didn’t download anything else.

It is my vault.

Look in the settings of the launcher

You can see where the vault files are. Is there much there?


It’s empty, nothing in it.

Get hold of a copy of SpaceSniffer. It’s a utillity which can tell you where all you space has gone. It’s not the engine… :slight_smile:

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/download.html

Plugins? I have nothing.

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(this is the “experimental” folder)

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Should i delete the linux packages?

For starters, turn off everything in the engine config you don’t need. It’s in the launcher

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what about installing unreal on second disk? Do you have a second disk installed? 200Gb is really not that good for game dev.

Yeah, i do have a second disk. I just downloaded it to the smaller disk for testing purposes.

I closed all the options. You can check it in the first post.

As you can see, you have a LOT more plugins than me, for some reason…

All I can say is, remove the engine, then remove the plugins folder, then reinstall.

On my system the size in the epic games launcher is stated as 96Gb

I have two versions installed, UE4.27 has a folder size of 43Gb and UE5 has 55Gb. The math checks out.

Well this version of the engine is very buggy. I think the engine thinks that i chose all the options, but i didn’t. So, i just downloaded and removed an option from the installation menu for the Engine, and i got 80 gigabytes back. Thanks for the help guys, appreciate it.

Hi,I encountered the same situation, can you please tell me what you deleted in the folder