Node.exe using all my bandwidth.

[Chaulk5]

This is the third time my work PC has been had this issue in the past month. For the longest time i was not sure if this is a virus, a root, or what it is but it was bad. It causes my PC to upload to full capacity of our internet speed (1mbps) at all times. I've reisntalled windows 2 time snow thinking it was a virus, but I just finnalyl found out it's coming from adobe CC. It's an js called node. If I end the task it goes away but it comes back when you restart the computer. How can I fix this? Is this a bug?

[kglad]

disable file/font sync'ing

[Chaulk5]

But I need font syncing.

[kglad]

try disabling file sync'ing.

[shaibn7]

while disabling file syncing causes node.js to stop hogging the network, to disable a feature in order to work around a bug isn't helpful. As the OP said, he needs this feature.

Anyone else has a solution instead of a work around?

[kglad]

that's not a bug and it's not a work-around.  it's a diagnostic step.

if file-syncing is causing the problem it's because there are one or more files it's repeatedly trying to sync but is unable to do so.

Error: "Unable to sync files" to the Adobe Creative Cloud

[shaibn7]

I was able to resolve this issue like this:

Pause File Sync from Adobe Creative Cloud software.

I opened Processes Explorer from Windows Sysinternals and found the node.exe process that was hogging the network.

In the View -> Lower Pane View -> Handles (or CTRL+H for short).

Now you should see in one of the handles a handle of type File with a path similar to this (for me, it was a PSD file in that path)

C:\Users\shai\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Creative Cloud Libraries\LIBS\<snipped a 24 char string that is here>_AdobeID\creative_cloud\dcx\<snipped a 36 char string that is here>\components\<snipped a 36 char string that is here>.psd

NOTE: <snipped...> = I removed string since I didn't know if those had any private information in them but they look something like this: 6369684e-c548-4ef2-a350-2807a428eb71 for the 36 chars and 825A52B423300E5C0A480D45_AdobeID for the 24 chars.

So I went over to that folder and noticed that this PSD was over 300mb. I simply removed it and start File Sync back in Adobe Creative Cloud software.

Problem solved.

Now, I don't know why a 300mb file would cause File Sync to hang and hog the network bandwidth... but at least I know how to fix it.