Edge Update Behaviour?

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An observation on today’s x86 W10 21H2 post-Edge update after system restart with August patches previously installed.

Within this folder location:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft\EdgeCore

I have two folders, one named 104.0.1293.63 and the other with 104.0.1293.70
Both folder contents are identical in structure with variable minor sizes as per folder properties report of 383 MB in screenshot.

Shouldn’t 104.0.1293.63 be completely removed after a restart as per previous updates when updating to 104.0.1293.70??
I have experienced this over the last few edge updates leaving empty folders which I manually delete.

Anyone else confirm this new behaviour on x86 systems?

Note: this doesn’t affect x64 systems by recent comparison on my other W10 21H2 installation

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• This topic was modified 7 months ago by Microfix.
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Microfix wrote:

I have two folders, one named 104.0.1293.63 and the other with 104.0.1293.70

Me too.

Note: this doesn’t affect x64 systems by recent comparison on my other W10 21H2 installation

Windows 10 Pro 21H2 X64 AUG. updates. Edge is installed in Program Files (x86).

I have also 2 folders : 1.3.165.21, 1.3.167.21 in C:-Program Files (x86)-Microsoft-EdgeUpdate

It seems like a bug that hasn’t removed previous Edge version folder, unless Microsoft plan ‘restore to previous version’ feature.

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I noticed this too, several months ago, but I left it alone and the previous version folder always seems to get deleted. I suspect that it’s there in case they need to rollback.

Of course, if you think that’s bad, just look at the %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\BrowserMetrics folder! It clears over time, but I’ve seen that fill with over a GB of metrics.

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what microfix is getting at is the folder still being full of the previous version amounting to 383mb.and the current version similar. I’ll bet your previous version folders have zero files within for edge  Provide evidence please

that empty folder bug has been there since forever when chromium edge was shackled into 21H2

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Win10 21H2 x64 and I also have 3 different Edge version folders in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\Download folder.

104.0.1293.63
104.0.1293.54
103.0.1264.37

And none of them are empty.

So it “seems” Edge doesn’t remove the older versions when it updates itself.

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