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Giulio fa cose
Giulio fa cose
Inspiring
July 30, 2021
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Unknown icons about Adobe app on my Mac

  • July 30, 2021
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Hi there,

 

I'm an Adobe user since many years. I have some unknown icons on my app list related to Adobe, but I honestly don't know how can I delete them and mainly if I can delete them.

 

Thanks to who will help me.

 

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Correct answer Test Screen Name

If this is LaunchPad, you can't delete them, Apple finds apps (even ones you don't need to run) and adds them automatically.

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Legend
July 31, 2021

If this is LaunchPad, you can't delete them, Apple finds apps (even ones you don't need to run) and adds them automatically.

Giulio fa cose
Giulio fa coseAuthor
Inspiring
July 31, 2021

I can understand it. But I think that it is not normal that Adobe adds some icons of essential parts of the software on my dashboard. This is not a Microsoft OS, but an Apple OS. I'd like to have the possibility to hide them!

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Legend
August 1, 2021

As I told you Apple isn't Microsoft. Apple is focused on simplifizing things. Maybe they doesn't expect that installing an app many other apps are installed. Using Microsoft Office for example nothing like this happens.

 

Anyway I wrote here to discover more than what I knew, but you're not adding nothing new, so maybe we could stop our conversation here. I'm also a little bit surprised that someone flagged your as "correct answer". 


Correct here means "factually correct" rather than "satisfying those who complain".

    kglad
    Community Expert
    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 31, 2021

    some of those are background processes that don't need icons, https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/adobe-background-processes.html.

     

    were are those located?

    Giulio fa cose
    Giulio fa coseAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 31, 2021

    They are on my dashboard on MacOS Big Sur. I'd like to understand what I have to do with them considering that I didn't add them there. They appeared automatically many time ago for some reason. To remove them from my view I put them inside a directory called "unuseful things". 

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