Hi there,
recently i found, that my MacBook Pro was getting slower and slower, so i executed the following command on the CLI to find out what was going on:
sudo fs_usage -f filesys > ~/Downloads/fs_usage_log.txt
The results where somewhat shocking: in one minute of logging, the Adobe Desktop app accessed the files at /Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps/hdpim.db, /Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps/hdpim.db-wal and /Library/Application Support/Adobe/caps/hdpim.db-journal 11414 times!
On a different machine (iMac), Adobe Desktop opens /private/etc/passwd several thousand times a minute as well! It's just a different file…
Also, i noticed that the TimeMachine backups of these machines were about 600 MB in size – per hour! Even if the machines were idle (and no other process was running or using the SSDs).
Both machines are running on macOS 10.13.6, everything related to Adobe Creative Cloud is updated to the latest version.
I am skeptical, that this overal behavior can be called healthy in relation to the lifetime of the SSD inside the MBP (and the iMac).
@Adobe have you ever heard of the Spotify app that crashed SSDs because of too much read/write IO (example link: Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives | Ars Technica )?
@Adobe are you aware of this? Or is this some abnormal behavior? Is there something that can be done about it?
I would be happy to completely disable the Adobe Desktop app if that will increase the lifetime of my machines.
Looking forward to any help.
Best regards, CC Dude
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