SMALLER Unreal Engine Installs! Recover 20+ GB

In this Two-Minute Tuesday tutorial we cover how to save disk space by optimizing our Unreal Engine installs. We can easily recover 20gb of space per version of Unreal. This is especially handy if you have several versions of Unreal installed like I do.
Keep in mind, this only applies to those of you NOT doing mobile gamedev work.

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[MRDDev]

Holy cow this video needs to be on the Epic launcher. Thanks for the tip

[Maladrum]

The word about this NEEDS to be spread. I'm glad more UE4 Devs are talking about it, because it's such a hidden gem of a feature. Thank you!

[_TWO]

Another great video William! Finally taking the plunge into Unreal, looking forward to the journey!

[kyanhudson]

I like that little timer in the bottom left

[primitivepatterns]

Awesome, super useful and to the point- Best type of tutorial :)

[wayneknox]

this might be the best tutorial I’ve seen in months. So useful, and in only 2 min. Well done, man.

[fareed]

Dear LORD !! The amount of space I've saved in all my five versions on UE4 is astounding !! Thank you Willaim !!

[kumoricloudy]

Thank you so much my MSI laptop went from 145gb to 22gb, but now when i used your method its now 170gb to 125gb <3 Thank you, your the man :D

[ZAKarchitects]

William became the UE4's meditation and inspiring ❤️ I really feel the value of internet when i see new notification from you man.. Thanks

[ImmersiveArch]

Awesome thanks William!! If you could also do a video on how to clean up project and optimize and reduce up space that would be so appreciated. But thank you so much for all valuable info you post!

[wjm]

2mins and I've essentially gained a small SSD worth of space!

[Quikkmaffs]

I love these short but undoubtedly useful tips and tricks.

[slamotte]

Oh my goodness thank you! When I started installing Unreal I was looking at my drivers and the gigabytes were going down so fast i thought I caught a virus but it was just Unreal installing those extra options.

[sebastianavena]

You content creation criteria and quality is always awesome!

Thanks for the reminder, I got 40GB because 2 UE installations :) !

[SolomonJagwe]

Thank you so I have freed up woowsers!!! Now I have to remember to recheck them when I develop for Mobile :)

[joshuakerr]

How you make every video completely essential is amazing. Colour me jealous

[svst]

many thanks William for sharing all your knowledge

[vincentdwen]

your 2 mins just bought me 40gb hard drive, thank you!

[Zekinhagc]

Bro, my single ue5 uas 70+, i had everything checked! I erased a bunch of files for nothing! You are a lifesaver man!

[NoTheRobot]

Wow so simple but so effective, thank you William!