Reduplication of photos on C: drive -- WHY?!?!

I just upgraded from PSE 6 to 9. The installation went well on my data drive (E:), and the photos remained in a folder of my specification on the E: drive.
However, I've just found that PSE has REDUPLICATED ALL THOSE files on my C: drive under C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs. It's taking up a whopping TEN GB on my C: drive. The C: drive is a small SSD that's large enough for my OS but not a lot more. This ridiculous duplication of data onto my C: drive has used up almost all the free space on the operating-system drive, so I'm getting warnings about low disk space there. What's worse is that it duplicated all the files twice now -- about 4 GB that must be from PSE 6 and another 5GB that must be from PSE 9. Almost all the same data is in both folders, and it's simply a duplication of the files that are already in the correctly-specified place on the data drive.
Why in the world would PSE write all this data twice, let alone three times???
Is there any way to get rid of all that crap on my C: drive without ditching PSE altogether???
Thanks for any suggestions.
Ron

You can delete the duplicates.
In organizer click on the display button and change to Folder Location View.
Expand the left hand tree and find the C drive folder with your images.
Click on that folder and press ctrl+A to select all the images
Hit the delete button and when prompted check the box requesting deletion from the hard drive as well as the catalog.
Click OK

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