TONEX plugin taking up over 5 GB of disk space

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I used to have about 900 tone net captures, deleted them all and installed about 100 newer ones.

The plugin was using 3.5 GB before, now it's over 5 GB.

It's got nothing to do with the downloaded installers in the Documents folder and I can't find what's taking all that space. Any advice?

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Look in the app data (local, roaming) folders. Many programs save installers there.

If you know the names of the installers, run a search for it.
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Danilo Villanova wrote: Sat May 30, 2026 3:29 am I used to have about 900 tone net captures, deleted them all and installed about 100 newer ones.

The plugin was using 3.5 GB before, now it's over 5 GB.

It's got nothing to do with the downloaded installers in the Documents folder and I can't find what's taking all that space. Any advice?
How are you determining the size?

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Funkybot's Evil Twin wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 4:05 pm
Danilo Villanova wrote: Sat May 30, 2026 3:29 am I used to have about 900 tone net captures, deleted them all and installed about 100 newer ones.

The plugin was using 3.5 GB before, now it's over 5 GB.

It's got nothing to do with the downloaded installers in the Documents folder and I can't find what's taking all that space. Any advice?
How are you determining the size?
Windows’ “Add or remove programs” settings menu.

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Danilo Villanova wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 9:01 pm Windows’ “Add or remove programs” settings menu.
EDIT: disregard. Program Files\IK Multimedia\TONEX\ is using up over 8GB of HD space.

Do we trust that's accurate?

Seriously, I have a massive ToneX library, the tone models themselves are tiny, but I do also have a a crap ton of IR's in ToneX. My Documents\IK Multimedia\ToneX folder is 1.7GBs. Windows Add or Remove Programs reports 5.82 GB. I'm not sure how it's calculating that but methinks it's just wrong.

You could always back up your ToneX library and uninstall and see if you magically get 5GB of free space back on your C drive. If you get way less, it might just be Windows. If you do get 5GB's, then files are being placed somewhere non-obvious (I already checked ProgramData and Users\\Appdata\Roaming and didn't see anything).
Last edited by Funkybot's Evil Twin on Mon Jun 01, 2026 3:28 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Cuauhtli wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 3:01 pm Look in the app data (local, roaming) folders. Many programs save installers there.

If you know the names of the installers, run a search for it.
Searched there, but there's nothing that big. But I went to Program files and the TONEX folder is over 8 GB there.

There's a TXMMEngine2 that's 4.67 GB and a "libs" folder that's 2.43 GB

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my Tonex folder is 5.7 GB
my txmmengine2 folder is also 4.67 GB
i don't have a libs folder. I guess those are the new captures you've downloaded?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Emerson

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Yep, same here. I guess the V2 modeler engine is indeed big. If anything, Windows is understating the size.

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Thanks, guys. I guess we have to live with it.

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I would use programs like WinDirStat/MacDirStat/etc to take a closer look. Maybe there are some leftover temporary files which take up a lot of space. If this doesn't help I would try to remove unnecessary stock data.

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Go to Documents and look in IK folders there. They leave installers, which I don't really understand.

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