Why is CCXProcess Devouring Bandwidth?

Same issues here, stupid CCX program - serves no purpose apart from making my entire mac grind to a halt as it eats more and more processor time. Yes I too noticed it sends lots of data.....??? Express VPN and Little Snitch show it sending/trying to send data to Adobe servers. Poor programming clearly at fault here or official Adobe Malware.

You can get rid of it. I did and the only consequence I noticed is my firewall not lighting up like a christmas tree 😉

To do so you can either use the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool (as mentioned here) or this little script I wrote:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [[ $(whoami) != 'root' ]]
then
    echo 'Must be superuser'
    exit 1
fi 

pkill -KILL CXXProcess
pkill -KILL Adobe_CCXProcess.node

CCX_FOLDER="/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud Experience/CCXProcess"
rm -rf "$CCX_FOLDER"/*
chown root "$CCX_FOLDER"
chmod 400 "$CCX_FOLDER"

With both methods you'll have to run them again at each Creativ Cloud app update.

Same problem here 😞 

I've now rid myself of the stone age internet speeds, having a connection that ranges between 15 and 30 Mbps (that's 10x to 20x faster) yet CCXProcess is STILL using up all of my available bandwidth on startup. As usual, once it has consumed anywhere from 70 to way over 200 MB it finally stops, but even with 20x the internet speed I had before, this can still take some time as CCXProcess seems to be downloading this data at a slower-than-normal rate. And again, as usual, whilst this is happening I struggle to load emails, websites, or anything that requires an internet connection.

I've been keeping Creative Cloud up to date, in the hopes that one of the updates will fix it, but I've had no such luck. What the heck is CCXProcess doing? I'd even settle for knowing what CCXProcess is actually for!

I thought I'd finally found a solution, but it seems I just can't shake CCXProcess and it continues to ruin my productivity every morning, and whenever I have to restart my computer.

I thought that uninstalling and reinstalling the Creative Cloud app might be worth a shot, but on trying to uninstall I was greeted with a message telling me I couldn't do that because I still had other CC apps installed. Thankfully, it offered the option of repairing the Creative Cloud installation instead, so I went with that.

For a few days I was blessed with uninterrupted internet access, as CCXProcess was no longer hogging all of the available bandwidth on startup. Finally! But the joy was short-lived, as a couple of days ago CCXProcess returned with a vengeance, continuing on its campaign of bandwidth consumption every single time I start up my Mac.

I'm trying my best to hold off from angrily Tweeting @Adobe like a madman, and hoping that someone here with more insight than me could possibly shed some light on what CCXProcess is doing, and how to stop it. In the immortal words of Leeloo Dallas: Please help.

This is still a daily headache for me. Being a self-employed designer I rely on my Adobe software, but CCXProcess is killing productivity every morning without fail. What's even more frustrating is that my wife is also a freelance designer, and CCXProcess is slowing down our entire home network meaning she too cannot contact clients, check emails or download/upload files. We can only continue once CCXProcess decides to release us from its grip, or I force it by quitting every Creative Cloud or Adobe process that's running, which clearly isn't a practical solution as I need to use my Adobe software to work!

Even stranger, is that my wife is running Creative Cloud, also on macOS, is on the same plan as me, yet CCXProcess is way down the list on her Activity Monitor, consuming almost no bandwidth.

I can't understand why on one Mac this is a major problem, yet on another that is in the same room, on the same network, running the same software, it's not.

What in digital hell is CCXProcess doing and how can I end its tyranny? Any ideas?