Adobe Acrobat 26.001.21771 consistently crashes on Mac OS Tahoe 26.5.2 despite trashing prefs, restarting, uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat
- August 5, 2026
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Adobe Acrobat 26.001.21771 consistently crashes on Mac OS Tahoe 26.5.2 despite trashing prefs, restarting (multiple times), uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat.
This all started today from simply opening an existing PDF, selecting one page, and trying to print. When doing so, I got the spinning wheel of death.
So I force-quit, tried the same process again, and got the same result: spinning wheel of death.
I force-quit again, restarted my Mac, tried the same process again, and got the same result: spinning wheel of death.
I force-quit again, did a hard shutdown and startup of my Mac, and this time, tried opening a different PDF to select one page to print, and got the same result: spinning wheel of death.
I force-quit again, did a hard shutdown and startup of my Mac, and this time, tried opening Acrobat. After a few seconds: spinning wheel of death.
I then trashed Acrobat prefs, restarted my Mac, tried opening Acrobat, and again, after a few seconds: spinning wheel of death.
I then downloaded, installed, and ran Adobe Acrobat Diagnostics, which supposedly sent a report to the engineering team, restarted, tried opening Acrobat, and again, after a few seconds: spinning wheel of death.
I then uninstalled and reinstalled Acrobat, tried opening it, and again, after a few seconds: spinning wheel of death.
Sooooooo… at this point, I’m really at a loss. WTF is going on? I really need Acrobat so that I can print this ONE page for a meeting, but I’m running up against this brick wall. Help!
Crash log attached.
