I have for my C: drive an SSD drive which does not provide an abundant of storage, so I try to keep garbage to a minimum. I was looking at C:/users/me/AjppData/Roaming/Corel/Messages.
This directory contains nearly 4 Megabyte of data in the form of various messages.
Can I delete these files (without damaging my installation)?
Thanks
Jon
Yes, you can delete it without issues to your software. I found the instructions in Corel's knowledge base. What they fail to tell you about that is that it will come back! I found a solution to that too, and I see no ads now. Just trying to remember where I found it.
Thanks! I will look for a setting to stop them as well.
pranderson said:I found a solution to that too, and I see no ads now. Just trying to remember where I found it.
Patti, are you thinking of the checkbox for "Show product offers from Corel" under Options>Global? Or is there some other magic to be invoked somewhere else?
No, I'm talking about the user Appdata folder. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Corel
In the above, there is a folder called Messages. You can delete this to keep from getting ads and pop up messages in the system tray, and it works for awhile....but since these "messages" are downloaded in the background, the folder is recreated.
I've checked all options to quell the ads in both CDGS and PaintShop Pro, but the pop-ups continued. Drives me nuts!!!!
Patti
I found the knowledge base article. This is listed under PaintShop Pro, but it's all under the Corel umbrella, so to speak. https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/articles/234750208-PaintShop-Pro-X9-How-to-control-messages-in-PaintShop-Pro-X9The solution is actually down in the comments, so scroll down the page and see the comment from Caleb Murdock for a hack to keep Corel from recreating the Messages folder. Use the solution at your own risk, but it worked for me.
Also, if you scroll down the page to the last comment from Diane Sweet there is a link to a KB article on how to delete the Messages folder. However, this article does not tell you that the folder will eventually be created.https://support.corel.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012807447
Since I have CDGS and PaintShop Pro I was getting hit with the system tray popups from both ---aaarrrggghhh. This type of advertising drives me insane. When I pay hundreds of dollars for a software, I do not think I should ever see them!!!