Is Adobe Application Manager still necessary 2024

[CRuthy4]

I have the Photography plan. I am on Mac os Monterey on a 2018 MacBook Air.

I am tidying up my Mac and I have discovered there are some 32bit Apps still on it from years ago. These are all associated with Adobe Application Manager. Screenshot attached.

My question is - Can I delete these 32bit apps? Can I delete the whole AAM folder in Utilities? I have read posts from 2012 saying that it is not possible, it won't delete, or that deleting it uninstalls the Creative Cloud app. I aalso read you need to use Creative Cloud Cleaner, but that will delete everything, all Adobe apps. I don't want to do that either.

Thanks for any help available.

I don't want to mess things up, I just want to get rid of the dedundant stuff.

[kglad]

beware of background processes you may be terminating.  https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/adobe-background-processes.html

also, do not delete. rename any file you're considering deleting.  if you see no problems after, at least, one restart, you can consider deleting.

[CRuthy4]

To kglad, thankyou. I believe one can rename a file by adding .old at the end. Is that correct?

Does anybody else have any more advice please?

[kglad · Accepted solution]

yes, exactly.  that's a common way to rename and easy restore if needed.