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rhondaschwartz
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May 23, 2015
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How do I delete Adobe Reader DC from my MAC?

  • May 23, 2015
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Can you please tell me how to delete Adobe Reader DC from my MAC? I understand that Adobe has a special link with tools to do so.

All I want is the old fashioned adobe reader program to use. Can't stand DC !

Thank you for your help.

    Correct answer Rave

    Hi Rhonda,

    There is no uninstaller for Reader in Mac. You can directly delete the application from Applications folder, that is just trash /Applications/Adobe Reader.app. Also this may cause a break in Safari functionality to read PDF files using Adobe Reader plugin. To resolve this, go to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/  and remove AdobePDFViewer.plugin and AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

    Regards,

    Rave

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    michaelcTX
    Participant
    June 1, 2016

    And what if AdobePDFViewer.plugin and AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin are NOT in InternetPlugin?

    Rave
    Community Manager
    RaveCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    May 23, 2015

    Hi Rhonda,

    There is no uninstaller for Reader in Mac. You can directly delete the application from Applications folder, that is just trash /Applications/Adobe Reader.app. Also this may cause a break in Safari functionality to read PDF files using Adobe Reader plugin. To resolve this, go to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/  and remove AdobePDFViewer.plugin and AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

    Regards,

    Rave

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    daniel_Azuelos
    Inspiring
    December 29, 2015

    Rave, your answer doesn't seem to have been verified.

    I checked on a Mac on which I made a recent test of "Adobe Reader DC", with a fresh install and a track of it.

    The installer didn't install anything within:

        /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer*

    On the other hand, it installed a ton of files (well in fact about 1500 files) within:

        /Library/Application Support/Adobe/ARMDC

                                           ARMNext

                                           HelpCfg

                                           Reader/DC

       /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.*

       /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist

       /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist

       /Library/Preferences/com.adobereader.DC.WebResource.plist

       /Library/PriviledgedHelperTools/com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator
                                       com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper             

    Since I will have to do it to clean my Mac, if anyone is interested by a shell script to clean all this garbage left behind,

    I could post it here.

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      daniel_Azuelos
      Inspiring
      March 21, 2016

      I tested it successfully on a clean Yosemite 10.10.4. Here is this shell script:

      How to clean uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?

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