Cannot uninstall Creative Cloud from Mac even though all CC app removed

[niblettes]

I have the CS6 Versions of Photoshop and Illustrator installed on my Mac.  I then installed Illustrator CC trial to see if I want to upgrade.  I don't want to upgrade but now I have all of this CC junk taking up disk space and hogging memory, power and CPU cycles.  I want CC completely gone.  But the Uninstall Creative Cloud app says that it cannot complete because there are still Adobe apps installed that need it.

I would rather not have to uninstall CS6, but if that is necessary I would like to know (and so I can completely terminate my decades long abusive  relationship with Adobe and just use Sketch and Affinity instead).

[Bani Verma]

Hi Niblettes,

As you have mentioned you would like to uninstall and remove CC app and its related folders from your machine, please follow the steps given in the below screenshot:

After this use the CC cleaner tool to make sure everything is removed: Use the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems

Let us know if this helps.

[niblettes]

You realize that unless the links are optional you have provided instructions that are impossible to follow?

[niblettes · Accepted solution]

The Cleaner Util unexpectedly removed my legacy installations of CS6.  That was not what I wanted.  But it does make leaving Adobe for Affinity a whole lot easier.