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October 12, 2018
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Acrobat DC Crash on MacOS Mojave 10.14

  • October 12, 2018
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Open the doc, try to copy some text, crash. Every time.

And the text never makes it to the clipboard.

Been going on for a week now.

How do I fix this, or get hold of a human at Adobe who can help?

Thanks.

--Steve

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Correct answer IDEAMAN1

I worked for three hours with the Adobe tech last Friday night uninstalling the Adobe Acrobat 2019 (which meant having them go in and removing older forms of acrobat X and 9 and all the rest I've accumulated over the years), cleaning out preferences, and then using the Adobe Cleaner to remove every extension. Then we logged in under a new user name and reinstalled Adobe to find it crashed there on a clean system. Then we reinstalled it (after logging in again) and then found it still crashed when opening preferences or reducing a file. I don't know if you're a Mac person, some are experiencing this problem with PCs.

The phone call was polite, the service efficient, and their rep said the case was being taken up to a superior. On Monday I received this note from Adobe.

We Discussed this issue with Apple, and they have acknowledged that issue is at their end and they have a fix ready for this.

Fix will be available as part of their upcoming update (10.14.2).

If you're a Mac user I hope you'll find this as good news. If a PC person, then it's of no value at all. Let me say that I'm gratified to get some sort of answer back, this is not always the case.

The thing is, after I upgraded to Mojave OS everything still worked fine. Sure opening the suite could be a little slow, but everything worked. However, after I upgraded to 2019 Acrobat is when I ran into trouble. Then when they tried to reinstall 2018 (the previous Acrobat), it crashed as well.

Now if I were employed in an agency, and we were simply an employee, I might only be annoyed by this, but as a business owner this problem requires me to look for alternates, options, and work-arounds. And that IT work (which I admit I stink at) eats into my billable time. Frankly, troubleshooting is not something we can afford. People just expect the Suite to work and every program to work together. We are waiting for the upgrade to 10.14.12 and are hoping that Adobe is right. I understand your frustration. However, before you cancel take a look at the other alternatives out there and see if the update makes it right. Even if the Adobe problem is fixed, we have learned a lesson to never again be tied to one process or system and expect it to be 100% reliable. Trust we've learned, is for suckers.

tom

27 replies

Participant
January 9, 2020

I have the same issue.  I have a Macbook running 10.14.6 and AA DC 19.021.20061 and it crashes each time you open it.  I have to force quit it to close it.   I trashed it and installed AA Reader DC 19.02120058 and it works fine. 

 

Is there a confirmed conflict between Mojave and AADC 19....20061 version? 

Participant
October 27, 2019

Today this happened to me, and I have Mohave 10.14.6. Every time i try to open AA it crashes.

Participant
December 9, 2019

I gave up on Acrobat DC v19 and just changed everything to use Arobat Pro X 10.1.16 instead.  This works fine and is shown by Creative Cloud to still be up to date.  I like the layout of the menues etc in Acrobat Pro X better than DC anyway.

Adobe Employee
August 12, 2019

Hello Mac users,

We did some investigation at our end and want to see if a workaround below solves the issue, it works for some users.

Could you please follow the steps below-

Steps:

  1. Quit Acrobat
  2. Open Finder on Mac
  3. Go to the folder: “/private/var/folders/”

 

   4. In Search section on top right of Finder window type “SendMail” as shown below. Note: Highlight “folders” option in Search bar:

       5. Note the path of this folder as shown below. This should be in /private/var/folders/ and the remaining path will not be constant and is created using hash hence we can’t provide exact path.

       6. Delete this folder.

       7.Launch Acrobat and try the workflow where you are facing the issue.

Let us know if this resolves the issue.

Regards,

Arvind

Participant
August 12, 2019

Running Acrobat for two hours without lock-up.  May be the fix.

Thanks

Dan

Legend
August 12, 2019

Ok, so it doesn't crash. How long have you left it in this state? (Not responding) eg overnight?

Does it EVER work?

Participating Frequently
August 12, 2019

Perhaps 'hangs' is a better description then... Never left it overnight, but can try. Does it EVERY time. Even when I'm opening the application only, ie not even attempting to open a PDF.

Legend
August 12, 2019

Thanks James.  Is there any message when it crashes (eg the normal Mac crash box?)

Participating Frequently
August 12, 2019

No message. Acrobat DC starts normally, and you need to accomplish evertything you'd like to do to the file inside 15 seconds because then it gives you the beachball which will run indefinitely. Force Quit shows "not responding", and that's the only way to close it.

Participating Frequently
August 12, 2019

Same. MacbookPro, latest OS, latest Acrobat DC update, crashes after 15 seconds... been like that for months.

Trying restarting, reinstalling, erasing preferences, used the stupid cleaner tool, removed AcrobatDC entirely, same issue. Works for 15 seconds then hangs permanently with a spinning beachball. Unresponsive, have to force-quit.

I use Acrobat every day for my publishing job, and no fix evident. I administer all Adobe products for my organisation. Come on Adobe, let's have some customer service.

Legend
August 12, 2019

What OS and Acrobat version please? “Latest” is not what we need. Strings of numbers is.

Participating Frequently
August 12, 2019

Acrobat Pro DC 2019.012.20034

MacOS Mojave 10.14.5

MacBook Pro 13" 2016

Had this issue since about January through a number Acrobat and OSX releases.

Participant
June 18, 2019

Two things.

1. This problem was NOT ANSWERED! Not sure why you label that post as a solution when the poster clearly pointed out that the problem has not been solved.

2. It is eight months since the original post and the problem has not been solved at all. Nor does it seem like anyone is even trying, apart from claiming the long past Mojave 10.14.2 should make everything better (spoiler alert: it didn't.)

Participant
July 8, 2019

Same problem here.  Mojave --> Acrobat won't launch.

Participant
August 2, 2019

I have Mojave 10.14.5

Acrobat

Architecture: x86_64

Build: 19.12.20034.328841

AGM: 4.30.85

CoolType: 5.14.5

JP2K: 1.2.2.43391

I have been experiencing crashes after a few minutes.

un-installed

Adobe clense

Re-install

Still have to force quick Acrobat when I hear the fans crank up due to processor load. Force Quit: Acrobat not responsive:

Please help us figure out this problem.

Dan

Participating Frequently
June 17, 2019

I've been having Acrobat Pro DC crashes for months now.

2 weeks ago I completely removed the CC suite, used the cleaner tool, removed all the Adobe prefs files I could find and it looked as if I finally managed to fix this horrible bug.

Until today.

Again: just opening a simple PDF document freezes Acrobat again.

I'm on a 2016 Macbook Pro,

Mojave 10.14.5

Acrobat Pro DC 2019.012.20034

What does it take to fix this? Please. I'm frantic.

ernestok69840822
Participant
May 24, 2019

My Acrobat DC is crashing as soon as I open it on my Mac Mojave 10.14.5, is there a solution?

kerulo
Participant
May 9, 2019

Hola, a mi me pasa igual en mi Mac, y no puedo perder el tiempo intentando solucionarlo, porqué tengo una empresa y debe funcionar,  ya estuvo un técnico vía remota en mi computadora y no consiguió arreglarlo, uso ilovepdf o el mismo illustrador para editar pdfs mientras arreglan esto que no funciona.

Trabajamos en una escuela de marketing digital Q Marketing y nuestros alumnos no pueden usar esta herramienta en Mac, la verdad es bastante frustrante este error que ocurre en Mojave.

Las demás suites funcionan correctamente, esta es la que falla, ¿se sabe algo de cuando lo arreglarán?

Gracias.