Can I delete the folder C:\MATLAB\​SupportPac​kages\R201​6a\downloa​ds?

I have installed several Suppoer Packages before, but my C drive is almost full.

I found several large files, such as NIDAQ1450f0.exe of >1GB, inside the folder C:\MATLAB\SupportPackages\R2016a\downloads\

1. directsoundaudio_download
2. mingw_download
3. nidaqmx_download
4. opencvinterface_download
5. osgenericvideointerface_download
6. usbwebcams_download
7. arduino_download
8. arduinoio_download
9. dcamhardware_download

Can I delete thoes folders without affecting the installed Suppoer Packages?

Thanks.

[Rik]

You can try moving them to a different folder, start Matlab and try to use the support package named. I would expect you can safely delete these files as they are outside the matlabroot.

You can also first check whether that folder is on the Matlab path.

[Jan]

Some general off-topic hints, when the C disk is full: Did you run the Disk Cleanup for the admins files already? The Windows Update Cleanup can remove many GB. Check the sizes of files in C:\Windows\Logs\CBS : If the CBS log file is too large to be compressed, a message is written to the CBS log file, which grows and gets too large to be compressed, and so on.