Removing Acrobat adds background items on Mac

Question

I don't need support, I only want to report this as a bug: I deleted Acrobat, and I got the same message one gets when installing:

Again, everything is fine, but I don't think this should be happening!

IceFloe · Accepted Answer

Totally get how you feel — it's super frustrating, I know.
But... this probably isn’t a bug (at least not technically 😅).

Even after uninstalling,
there are still leftover files in places like:

/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper
/Library/PDF Services/Save as Adobe PDF.app

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.XXXUUIDXXX.plist

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/ARMDC
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/ARMNext
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat

If those are still hanging around, you'll likely need to do a proper cleanup.
Have you tried running the Cleaner Tool yet?
https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Labs/AdobeAcroCleanerTool.dmg

Might be worth a shot.

Hope that helps!

Pariah Burke · Answer

If you're uninstalled Acrobat and restarted your computer, it should be gone. Just to be sure--and for identifying if it's a bug--would you please post a screenshot of your Activity Monitor? Does it show any process starting with "acro" still running?

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