Why does the DC installer remove Acrobat Pro XI, and all of its plugins, without warning?

effing Adobe!!

They have created a massive headache for me to since this live DC bs!  I have Acrobat Pro, and it no longer works!

I am so upset with Adobe Acrobat DC, it is ruining my business.    I am a Mobile Notary Loan Signing Specialist.  I work with Title companies all over the U.S.  I get docs for loans from a secure website, print two sets and take to borrowers/sellers to get signed and notarized.  Since I upgraded to

the DC, (my mistake), I can't get XI back.  Now it takes me 2 hours to print 92 pages twice, where it use to take 20 minutes for both.  Please give me back Adobe Reader XI.  

We were issued Acrobat Pro (and the entire adobe suite) through a subsidised government corporate licensing for NSW DET Teachers. The DC upgrade requires payment from a personal CC. How do I apply the government corporate licensing to the upgrade??

I agree that it was a poor business to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Pro XI without warning.  I used to respect Adobe.  I am using Microsoft software routinely in protest. In my opinion, $10 per month is too much to pay for Adobe Acrobat DC. 

Getting updates to this thread, I can't believe Adobe hasn't made some big moves to fix it. Hard to believe it goes on and on and that they continue to defend it. My approach to this right now:

1) I run DC on a secondary laptop machine, so I will see when/if Adobe gets this sorted out. I figure I must be seeing it wrong, that I don't get the changes, maybe the new kindergarten UI we'll grow on me if I open it now and then and try to run it. I keep thinking that someone somewhere must run DC and like it. I think, I don't use the "cloud" side of it and open PDFs and try to edit them on my iPad or phone, so maybe I'm the outlier.

2) However . . . I run the older version on my main design workstation, because if you're making your living with the tools, you don't have time to screw with mistakes developers make in new versions. I treat DC like it's a whacked-out-Beta-version that I don't want on my main design workstation.

3) I stay enthused about pretty much all other Adobe products, despite the fact that I think they've screwed up Acrobat.

Read the magazine style reviews of Acrobat DC and you'll find these moronic authors raving about how wonderful it is, but then scroll down to the user comments and the feedback from real people that have to use it (not just get paid to write a glowing review about it) and they pretty much all hate it and are surprisingly vocal about hating it despite the glowing review they just read. The most amazing thing to me is, Adobe could've done nothing, since XI, and life would have been better for many Acrobat users -- everyone that I am in contact with. Imagine all the people working on DC and all the hours invested, and to say, "Let's back up, dump DC, and try to undo this fiasco" -- that would undoubtedly be a tough call to make. Impossible. Not going to happen. What do you say, "Excuse me, boss, it appears my team has totally wasted the past couple of years."

Very late to the party, too. But, wow! Didn't expect this! I just tried the Acrobat Pro DC version before considering updating our other computers, and it was literally unusable on my own Mac! Even collating files stopped in the middle of the process, with no reason. Opening documents was a real pain in the ass, too, even for documents < 5 Mo. Accessing tools was not easier either, it crashed like 20-30 times in less than 30 minutes and in the end, I just tried to uninstall this crap... but failed. Eventually we will keep using Acrobat XI and wasted our time with DC. We'll maybe end looking for alternatives and can't understand why Adobe is unable to provide any efficient update.

Looks like I'm late to the party 101215, but glad I came.

Was going to "upgrade" to DC to day and got half way through when I read that previous versions, files, etc. were all going to be destroyed. Stopped the install.

Reading through these emails has pursuaded me from using DC til things clear up or at all.

I had to fill in a W-2 form today and was directed to a site that wanted me to pay to sign it the freakin' thing. Scroooom.

So let me join the pejoratives directed at Adobe. I agree with every single one of them. If I had alternative software to use I would. Bunch a freakin' coders with too much time on their hands, and most probably marketing suits over-thinking everything.

Fie on you Adobe.

While we wait for adjustments in personnel and someone capable to untangle the Acrobat DC f--k up, the best advice is: Do not update to Acrobat DC.

Adobe is not running every application they make like this. I think this Acrobat DC f--k up is different than anything else I've seen from Adobe. I don't want to imagine the way customers are being communicated with in this thread, is indicative of a turn, of how it may go in the future with other Adobe apps that we depend on. I really think it is someone on the Acrobat team setting a tone that other departments and other people at Adobe would be ashamed of -- I hope.

Someone at Adobe, a little higher up the ladder, needs to be made aware of this thread. CEO and a few of the VPs need to read it. Or maybe stockholders; maybe this thread could be part of the press that gets spewed in the annual report. Headline: New policy, Adobe releases kindergarten version of Acrobat, when customers articulate problems with update, Adobe treats them like idiots.

"Let me start by saying that we are sorry that you are experiencing the problem that you are.  However, you should understand why you have these pains and hopefully prevent them from happening in the future. Adobe has NEVER supported the installation of multiple versions of Acrobat on the same machine.  Not on Windows and not on Mac."

WRONG, WRONG ,WRONG, WRONG!!

I had CS4, CS5, CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC2014 all installed side by side on both Mac and PC. Sometimes I wanted to use InDesign CC to work with a particular plug-in hthat wouldn't run with anything higher, sometimes I wanted to open an .indd file in CS4 because that's what it was last saved in. So to say you can't run them side by side is utter garbage.

The issue is AcrobatDC. It's crap. It won't run my plug-ins. And unless Adobe want to pay for the cost of buying the latest version of the plug-ins I use, they shouldn't  be effing software Nazis and force me to use the latest version. Simple as that.

I am on a PC running Windows 7, and I have NO acrobat plugins. However Acrobat Pro DC continues to crash. I repaired it, using the uninstall/repair option, and it's still broken. Now what can I do?

Thank you,

Peggy