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EVE client updates aren't deleted

Author
Azrin Stella Oerndotte
Caldari Provisions
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#1 - 2013-05-20 23:15:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Azrin Stella Oerndotte
So after I noticed that the EVE client was unreasonably large (~17GB), I went ahead and dived into client file to see what is taking up all the space. This was a couple of weeks ago.

It was old update files. It was from around the time the EVE launcher was introduced, and installed a fresh download of EVE. I went ahead and asked around a bit and found out this used to be a problem on the windows client, but had been fixed, however the last files were from 14th of may last week so I presume this haven't been fixed yet.

I went ahead and deleted these files and the client went down to 12 gigabytes instead, much better but still seems large.

Some pics:
Before:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1488498/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild%202013-05-21%20kl.%2000.47.32.png
The largest file on my computer is the SISI launcher and the third largest was buckingham, I have cleaned them as well and now they are all aound 11-12 GB
After:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1488498/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild%202013-05-21%20kl.%2000.57.18.png

Fix please?

Edit: after looking around some more, I noticed that there is alot of cache backups in the settings folder that are both years old and new, but I don't dare touch those.

PS.
I also noticed that Google Chrome did the same, and I had 99 updates saved, I deleted them and it went down from 10 GB to 500 KB.