How can I disable core sync and updaters?

I literally only need Photoshop & Illustrator. I don’t want the "cloud." (ew... we have macs for that). I don’t want anything to do with Adobe services aside from these two apps. I actually wish I didn't want anything to do with Adobe generally lol. I am a student and have the cheapest CC $9.99/month option… I can’t afford to actually buy individual apps.

Creative Cloud is a nightmare with all this shyt I don't need or care about ... "core sync," “core sync helper,” “desktop service," "CC library," "CCX process," "creative cloud helper” … the list goes on and on and it is clogging up my CPU on my wimpy “to go” MacBook Air (rather than my iMac//office computer). These services will not go away, and when I force quit them on the activity monitor they come back up within 1 minute... Insane... Feeling violated...

I have changed the settings to not launch automatically on restart, and yet it still does. I’ve turned off everything in preferences but it is still telling me that I’ve “paused” my “file syncing” … Ew. What am I even syncing… I just want to use photoshop and illustrator. I DON’T WANT TO SYNC ANYTHING, I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH CREATIVE CLOUD OTHERWISE!!! PLEASE HELP ME I HATE THIS SO MUCH!!!

I'm running an eval of creative suite on my mac and have same issue with these processes being in the top 5-10 processes in terms of CPU utilization when I have no Adobe products running.  These should not be so busy, or they should be designed better to use less resources, either direction is a product problem.  I will probably uninstall and not purchase the product due to these services that waste resources on my laptop, burn batter, etc.

5 years after my last post here, I've earned a couple of likes, which made me thoughtful.

It also seems that a large opposition has formed against my original points. Some of those opinions are legit, others are just plain ignorant — or people are so used to bad software that they won't even notice.

I stand corrected in one point, though: today I couldn't care less about the CC background apps/daemons. I've come to the point where I just accept this crap, because there are worse things to 'worry' about: It shocks me to see that Adobe's software is victim to software bloat not describable in words anymore. The sluggishness of the applications drove me 99% away from Adobe and I can't even express the disappointment and anger when I am forced to open up Illustrator or Photoshop to work with teams which still use Adobe software. The CC apps are TIME THIEVES in every single aspect and it saddens me to see that — once being an absolute Adobe fanboy — there is no argument anymore for supporting this company or their apps. As already said I was a long-time user of Adobe software, starting with Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (and I mean 3.0 and not CS 3.0). These apps were a joy to use, many productive years, projects and happy customers resulted in this love.

Nowadays: the user interfaces are streamlined for beginners by default, and annoying tooltips, popups and a cluttered, visual-noise-prone UI need to be sorted out before getting to work — for each app separately. I could do an endless list of annoyances but I will stop here, as I have long switched over to alternatives which do their job: fast, reliable and with a top-notch ease-of-use.

I'd recommend anybody who dares to experience something better, something new to try alternatives. And to spread the word, so hopefully Adobe one day listens to "the rest of us" and publishes a "PRO" line of their application range, aimed at the professional user and with their needs in mind. Until then, Adobe is plain dead for me.

PS: history repeats itself. Apple did go through a very similar story with their Pro apps and Pro computer appliances. Yet they did manage to establish a pro-user segment again. I wish you the best, Adobe.

Funny Thing. Core Sync is still running when killed. Results in Problem while working in Bohemian Sketch which lags here and there. Yeah. I coming closer and closer to not working with Adobe anymore.

On my new Laptop which is a half year old (Dell G3, Win10) core sync does not only eats so much of my CPU,
but it heatens the CPU up to 100°C. As if I close coresync + cc tasks, cpu getting back to 40-45 °C quickly.

Dissable adobe CC app from auto launching on mac:

launch terminal

copy and paste this: launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist

restart

done

ON WINDOWS PC

• Disable all Adobe On Startup
• Restart

I don't currently power use my PC for Adobe CS.
I'm more of an occasional user, and can just switch off the Startup Processes until I might need them.
Regardless, it seems I can still use Adobe CS just fine without the process at Startup.

I noticed my CPU maxing out (100%) and the fan running in overdrive.
Granted, my laptop is weak, but it's super inconvenient and interfered with even being able to smoothly use a basic program like Adobe Rush.

• I opened Task Manager and noticed the Process being bogged down by Adobe.
• I checked Performance and the system was maxed out.
• I checked the Startup tab, disabled all the Adobe (at Startup).
• When I restarted my computer it runs without issue.

BEFORE DISABLING AT STARTUP

​Before DISABLE it shows as HIGH impact on Startup

After DISABLE the CPU runs just fine.

Time and time again I have had to reinstall my OS and all my Creative Cloud Apps because this Cloud Feature continues to eat my CPU and completely disables my computer. It seems only to happen when Adobe does it's thing for auto updating, etc. I am NOT HAPPY about this, it takes days, if not a week, at a time to resolve the issue, back up files, wipe and restore and reset the SMC and NVRAM, never knowing which one of these things is actually going to get me working again, which when you have zero CPU left, it takes forever to do anything. This repeated process takes time and money away from my paycheck. Adobe should be liable for that, they aren't providing a consistent service at a quality that matches the price tag.

Not only have I had to buy the creative suites twice, since I started using it, at the price tag of $2500. All these years later, due to Adobe's greed and refusal to let the newer versions read files created in older software that was bought and paid for...now I have been paying a monthly fee for the last 5-6 years that is actually unaffordable but necessary to my work flow.

Why on earth haven't they fixed these common issues that everyone has been complaining about for five years? I am SO GLAD I stumbled upon this the core sync in my extensions with this latest crash (second time in one month) and googled it to see if it had anything to do with CPU. Wow, just wow. Adobe is lucky to have the market monopoly here because if there was another comparable company, I would jump ship in a heart beat.

I've had the same issue. I could run illustrator or photoshop much faster 15 years ago on an old clunker of a pc than i can today on my imac. I only need it to do the same things as I did back then, but unfortunately everything takes soo long now on CC that I can't even take on design jobs anymore (I freelance on the side) because the software is unusable now. I know this is an old issue but its gone on too long and only gotten worse. I'm going to quit my subscription to it altogether and look for alternatives if I can't get anything to work in the next couple weeks.