Clearing Cache on Mac - Side Effects?

Hello again,
I'm on a Mac that was purchased by the University that I work for. They've installed the Adobe Suite for me and when there are updates, I actually have to have them "push" them to me - which I've learned to live with.
I'm familiar with clearing the cache within each program themselves (and I've done that, and it helps a little). But I'm curious about clearing the cache on my Mac completely. The Adobe folder alone (in my ~/library/caches folder) has about 42gigs of stuff in it.
Does anyone know if this will affect any updates that were done to the programs? I'm running the latest 2014 CC versions on the entire suite. I'm using OS X Yosemite 10.10.1
Thanks!

This problem can be caused by clearing the cookies via [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/remove-recent-browsing-search-and-download-history Remove recent browsing, search and download history].
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*Firefox > History > Clear Recent History or Tools > Clear Recent History
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