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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[@MR3DDev]

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

[@pwnisher]

Yeeeeeeeeeeees!! Thanks William!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Cheers man!

[@wayneknox4510]

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

[@_20TWO]

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

[@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!

[@NoTheRobot]

Wow so simple but so effective, thank you William!

[@laylaaly9068]

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!

[@alexmak8305]

Oh, man! That was unbelievebly helpful! Thank you!

[@sebastianavena]

You content creation criteria and quality is always awesome! Thanks for the reminder, I got 40GB because 2 UE installations :) !

[@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

[@fractalcucumber]

So happy to have learned about this. Thank you :)

[@VRDivision]

great video my man! It's always a great idea to check the defaults

[@3dchick]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I don't Twitter, and you bringing this to us is gold!

[@mikelittlenz]

EXCELLENT tip William!

[@amirierfan]

Man your videos are always super useful no matter what you are covering...

[@GRIDtRAVELER]

Very good, thanks William! You always got a good surprise for us man.

[@robdomenech]

You never cease to amaze, my friend!

[@DeviantPicturess]

Great tips as always Will, thanks for sharing.

[@wjm123]

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

[@primitivepatterns]

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

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you!

[@notrealquanluong]

i've just made the same expression as yours the moment i saw the result William. Boom! knowledge

[@panosdimi4713]

Just i love you man keep up thank you for the lessons 💕

[@Assaultpowered]

Thank you so much, i'm in the same case with few version of unreal installed. and boom, 80gb saved.

[@amrsalari]

Hi William, as always, so so helpful, THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@Quikkmaffs]

I love these short but undoubtedly useful tips and tricks.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thank you!

[@UnrealSamurai33]

Thanks for sharing this tip from Chris Murphy this will literally save tons of space on my work laptop for UE :)

[@yaschan99]

I love you man!!! How I never thought of this. Well, now I do.

[@chronosschiron]

about to finally get an upgrade to that 1660 super will be going right top end thenits back to rewatching a lot a guess whose vids love ya man keep up great works

[@Hall00117]

Damn that's great! Thanks for the info!

[@joshuakerr2610]

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

[@WilliamFaucher]

Haha thanks so much!

[@fareed7786]

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

Wow, thanks William! This saved my day!

[@charlytutors]

Oh, man! Thank you very much for this tip!

[@HussinKhan]

Amazing! Thanks Will!

[@KryatLore]

HOLY CRAP!!! What a godsend tip!! THANK YOU!!

[@RwanLink]

Wow I use unreal for years and didn't knwo about it. Thanks for the tip!

[@Sunnny851]

It saved 45gb for me....I have 4.27 and UE5...I love you for this tips... thanks a ton...you always amaze me..

[@StevenDiLeo]

Thanks for saving us some hdd space! 🤩

[@don_tpanic6052]

Man, just discovered it by accident yesterday and now youtube recommending this vid to me. A little bit too late for me, but I'm sure it will be very handy for so many other people.

[@vincentdwen]

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

[@billysatkowski6938]

Thank you. So glad I watched this, wish it was sooner but... You are awesome.

[@masslona]

Love your videos man!

[@FirstVaultDweller]

I'm here after Clint 's Stream yesterday and man i'm so glad i visited your channel def sub now. This little trick is so neat , i get 150gb free space WOW, thnx a lot mate👌 _Keep up the _*_GREAT_*_ work👍_

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks so much, and welcome to the (small) community!

[@giacomoallegri8333]

And Will saves the day again! Great tip, thanks a lot!!!

[@karl6609]

Awesome tip! thanks for sharing!😘

[@svst3934]

many thanks William for sharing all your knowledge

[@WilliamFaucher]

The pleasure's mine!

[@rysone3173]

Yeah, mind blown. Thanks, much appreciated!

[@silijah]

Brilliant!! Thanks a lot!

[@Zekinhagc]

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

[@robotn2]

Thanx man, much appreciated!

[@MamaKiwiz]

BRO IS A LEGEND deserves a sub tbh

[@vianart3d]

William, you're amazing!! Thank you...

[@runner1]

As always, thanks!

[@XProgo]

This is exactly what I needed

[@jbach]

Thanks for sharing!

[@3DIYOriginal]

Cool. Thanks For Sharing.

[@maxpownall1813]

Hi Will, massive fan and love your work. Thanks so much for the tip! My hard drive and me say thanks! Quick tip from an audio boffin: Put a high pass filter on your videos below 60ish Hz, there was some few very low thumps and the low end of an air conditioner / computer hum. You don't really need audio information down there for your videos so would recommend cutting that information. You could consider a subtle gate as well to reduce the background noise when you are not speaking. Thanks again bro!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Hi there! Thanks so much for the advice! This video was the first video recorded with my new Deity S-Mic 2, and it's a whole heck of a lot more sensitive than my previous mic, still getting the hang of how to use it properly. I've since added noisegate, and bought a shock mount to help with the thumps. Great advice about high pass filtering anything below 60hz tho, I appreciate it!

[@maxpownall1813]

@@WilliamFaucher My pleasure Will, hope you have a nice Christmas lined up :) Thanks again

[@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.

[@abbuavy]

That is an amazing tip! Thank you! I subbed!

[@WilliamFaucher]

Welcome to the community! :)

[@leonaraya2149]

Great tip! Thank you so much!

[@KuraiNoOni]

That is awesome. In my particular case my installs combined were at ~109gb and I was able to free up almost 40gb.

[@anastasiamakinmagic]

Yeah this is huge! THANK YOU!!!

[@boomstomp]

Thanx Buddy. Just removed 70Gig of unwanted resources, without removing any assets or disturbing the workflows - Always good to check in. Keep it up man!

[@dhruvilchaudharyyt8913]

Hyy Buddy is this an after installation process? Cuz while I starting download the unreal engine it doesn't show any option Please let me know 👍🏻

[@SolomonJagwe]

Thank you so much!!!!!!!! I have freed up 59GB!!!!! woowsers!!! Now I have to remember to recheck them when I develop for Mobile :)

[@EmiliaKaida]

This is simple and to the point :)

[@streetlevelaudio4388]

Myself and my hard drive thank you immensely :)

[@ammonn9930]

Master, you always teache me the best of the best

[@arifraihan7071]

wow. really great tip. thank you very very much

[@Enzait]

Huge! Thx!

[@neeo9949]

thanks william, u are the best👍🏾

[@thehemsley_]

Epic thanks 🤙

[@kj3d812]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Oh wow ... I was about to buy a new hard drive to be sure I have enough space for my projects. Now I just gained 42GB of space on the drive I have!

[@eloideschamps3851]

thank you so much that s the trick of the year

[@ManuelDoffou]

Thank you!!

[@kyanhudson6831]

I like that little timer in the bottom left

[@WilliamFaucher]

Gotta keep two-minute tuesday under 2 minutes!

[@miurasrpnt_v2]

Wow ! Now that's a vital tip !

[@AyushKumar-rg7wk]

My god !! Thanks a lot 🔥

[@UNKNOWN-kg7nx]

I love your videos man, pls also make tutorials on making great cinematics in UE5 😍, I'm sure everyone wants this.

[@WilliamFaucher]

Thanks! I will once UE5 is officially released. In its current Early Access, things are bound to change and be updated, so I won't bother until things are locked down :)

[@baptisteenfrin9572]

omg what I needed thank you very much

[@WilliamFaucher]

Cheers! Glad it could help!

[@papahnaui4848]

OMG I love this video trick!

[@JuWnL]

OMG!! Thank you!

[@HemisphereCinema]

Good stuff dude i am kinda limited in my main space folder.

[@Mehdi.Borousan]

WOW! Man! That was brilliant! Thank you :))) I owe you an SSD now :D

[@HassanSiddique777]

Oh my GOD that's awesome 🤩

[@kumoricloudy9005]

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

[@mandalorianbusiness2798]

Thank you! Like THANK YOU! You saved my space in here haha

[@cocosolero]

Mind Blown! Now I can reinstall UE5...happy days

[@SanOcelotl]

Thanks dude you are the best

[@IndianCitizen04]

That's why you're my Guru. Save my life. Thank You.

[@thegateofnergal715]

thank you man, you saved my poorly hard disk :)

[@FameAvenue]

I appreciate you!

[@reginaldarmah2381]

I already know this but thanks for sharing with the community

[@WilliamFaucher]

Cheers!

[@Rollthered]

THANK YOU!

[@ronyrobjangeo]

OH MY GOD!!!!!THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

[@micbab-vg2mu]

Great tip!!!

[@ferranzozaya3151]

THANK YOU!!

[@nursultannazarov8379]

Guy's really learned this right now. GOD

[@ajaysupahiya3299]

Awesome bro

[@23dsin]

Big Thanks!

[@4ingrain435]

“I hope u find this video helpful….” Helpful !? No ! It is life-saving !!!!!! OMG thank so much !