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Inspiring
February 4, 2018
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How to completely disable all CC daemons in my system?

  • February 4, 2018
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Hi,

the only part of CC that I use on my macOS is Bridge that comes free (I use LR6 and PS CS6 that fortunately are not associated to CC).

As Bridge CC is a part of the CC Suite some extra apps were installed too.

I get the Adobe Application Manager app that it's called Adobe Creative Cloud inside itself. In the Preferences of the app I unchecked:

  • General -> Launch at login
  • Creative Cloud -> Files -> Sync On/Off -> Creative Cloud Sync
  • Creative Cloud -> Fonts -> Typekit On/Off -> Typekit Sync

So, this helped me with the AAM that I have to launch manually if I want to upgrade the Bridge CC. Actually, it's interesting that Adobe Reader is not updatable via the AAM but use it's own updater.

What I don't like is still many processes from Adobe in my operating system, even after clean restart of my system.

How to remove/disable them without destroying anything? I'm talking about the following processes that run in background:

  • Core sync
  • Core Sync Helper
  • Adobe Desktop Service
  • CCXProcess
  • CCLibrary
  • AdobeCRDaemon (2x)
  • AdobeIPCBroker

And yes. I am aware that I will miss features such as auto-update, cc syncing, font syncing, whatever adobe-related syncing. I don't care. I don't use Creative Cloud anything related. All I use is: LR6 (not CC related), PS CS6 (not CC related), Adobe Reader (not CC related) and Bridge CC+Camera RAW CC (both CC related).

Can I simply remove from Applications folder the following:

  • Adobe Creative Cloud (there is uninstaller inside, so maybe it's a good idea to run it)
  • Utilities/Adobe Application Manager
  • Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Utilities/Adobe Installers
  • Utilities/Adobe Sync

I am OK to update apps manually. I just want them to work correctly and stay away from my CPU if not in use.

Thanks for your understanding,

Bart

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Correct answer xbartx

The correct answer is:

launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.*

3 replies

Participant
August 26, 2021

I came here through search and I can confirm that the pain in the arse is still there. My solution: check Activity Monitor and find all suspicious Adobe processes and chmod 000 AND add REJECT firewall rule  to everyone of them.

Known Participant
August 26, 2021

Could you be more specific for us computer illiterates?  When I call up activity monitor I get nothing regarding adobe and nothing that is changeable. Do you mean Task Manager? I have no idea what chmod 000 means or where to find a firewall rule.

Legend
August 26, 2021

Non-technical users are probably better off just leaving this alone so you don't break the Adobe installation.

Participating Frequently
September 25, 2020

It is a command for macOS which will prevent the services from being started on login. However, they will still be started whenever you open an Adobe CC app. I have made a Bash script which will kill them whenever they are running: https://gist.github.com/jivanpal/30af7741721e597575e10f5ef8560062

Known Participant
September 26, 2020

Can this be used with Windows 10 on a PC?  I've disable creative cloud at startup and have turned off all background apps in W10 settings but still have at least a dozen Adobe apps running constantly.

xbartxAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
February 20, 2018

The correct answer is:

launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.*

alfredkueng
Participant
April 23, 2021

Hi xbartx,

Is there a reverse Terminal command if needed? Would it be load instead of unload?

 

Adobe's nebulous policies drive me nuts. I would like to see honest transparency about what data flows and what processes work and what of it I really need for what purpose ... and I would like to be able to control it. No way! I never get any usefull answer … Where have the goog-guys gone?