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Alois356911133xzh
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September 9, 2025
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Adobe Acrobat DC slow

  • September 9, 2025
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Hello,

 

Since about 2–3 weeks, Adobe Acrobat Pro has become very slow when opening any kind of PDF, and it quite often crashes.

I noticed that this issue only occurs when I have an active internet connection:

 

  • With internet ON → opening is very slow, sometimes leads to crashes.

  • With internet OFF → PDFs open instantly, as before.

 

Important details:

 

  • All the files I open are stored locally on my computer.

  • I tried repairing and reinstalling Acrobat Pro and even Creative Cloud → no improvement.

  • I also tried installing older versions → no improvement.

  • I run latest MacOS versions

 

Could someone please help me with this issue?

 

Thanks in advance!

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creative explorer
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creative explorerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 9, 2025

@Alois356911133xzh you already answered your question:

    • With internet ON → opening is very slow, sometimes leads to crashes.

    • With internet OFF → PDFs open instantly, as before.

     

When your internet connection is slow or unstable, background processes can get stuck, causing the application to freeze, slow down, or even crash. Since the problem disappears when you disconnect from the internet, it strongly suggests that an online communication issue is the root cause.

Try adjusting Acrobat Pro's settings to minimize its online activity. The most effective way to do this is to disable any features that sync with the cloud, such as file syncing or document cloud services. This will prevent Acrobat from constantly trying to connect to the internet in the background, which should resolve the performance issues. 

Look in your Preferences to trun this off. Keyboard shortcuts, Command K to open preferences. In the Documents,, uncheck

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Alois356911133xzhAuthor
Participant
September 16, 2025

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately your advice couldn't help. As I renewed my Adobe license recently, I thought it could be related but I borrowed another license and didn't help as well. I tried to run it with Rosetta but no change as well...
According to crahs logs that I analysed with AI, several threads are problematic:

1) AdobeAGM
2) CF Network / NSURLConnectionLoader / Network Reachability Thread

Adobe Acrobat gets blocked with the following function:  getaddrinfo, mdns_addrinfo
What should I do?
Best regards,
Alois Rosenfeld

 

 

 

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Tariq Dar
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October 8, 2025

Hi @Alois356911133xzh, 

 

Sorry for the troubled experience. 
If you are still experiencing the issue, please check for any pending updates. To check for any pending updates, launch Acrobat > Help > Check For Updates.


If the issue persists, please help us with the logs:

To collect the logs:

  1. Download and run the Diagnostics Utility from:  https://adobe.ly/3VW0OID
  2. Click on Start Diagnostics. Ensure advanced logging is checked.
  3. Launch Acrobat, reproduce the issue with your file.
  4. Once done, click Stop Monitoring.
  5. Copy the Log ID and share it with us.

For crash or freezing issue, we would also require crash logs: https://adobe.ly/48kGOab

  • Upload logs to any Cloud Drive(One Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc)

Thank you for your patience.

Best regards,
Tariq | Adobe Community Team

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