How to disable bloatware?

Hi,

I figured I'd necro this old post because I know the answer, in case someone comes here looking.

First off, I love Adobe's terse, anti-consumer response "These are all required service to run in background in order to run Adobe Creative Cloud applications." never to return to the thread again. Firstly that's obviously a lie. It's amazing that tech companies all adopt this attitude -- Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe -- that "If you would like to use Photoshop to edit colors in a JPEG every now and then you may consider your $3000 laptop property of Adobe Inc which we will do with as we please"

If you have a Mac, you need to rename some .plist files Adobe scattered all over your computer without your permission when you installed Creative Cloud -- these cause Adobe's crapware to load when your computer starts. Once you've renamed them, reboot and you should be good. Note that you may need to name these back and reboot to enable their crapware to periodically reauthorize your Creative Cloud license. Obviously if you know how to create shell scripts you can automate that.

The paths to the offending files, at least on OS X El Capitan, are these:

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.[bunch of random characters].plist

/Users/[your username]/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.agsservice.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.fpsaud.plist

All of which can be disabled by appending .bak to the end of the file names (or re-enabled by removing the .bak) so the end file names should be this:

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist.bak

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist.bak

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.ARMDCHelper.[bunch of random characters].plist.bak

/Users/[your username]/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon.plist.bak

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.agsservice.plist.bak

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist.bak

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist.bak

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.fpsaud.plist.bak

Note my inclusion of [bunch of random characters] in the third item -- obviously that's not literally in the path, but describes what is. Likewise replace [your username] with whatever your OS X username is, you'll see it in Finder.

/Users/[your username]/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

Is a tricky one. The rename trick stops it from working, but launching any Creative Cloud application will cause the original to be re-created. The trick is to actually forget the .bak trick, leave the file there, but open it up with TextEdit and delete everything so it's an empty file, then save it. To stop Creative Cloud applications from tempering with it, go to Terminal and issue this command:

chmod -w /Users/[your username]/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

The -w means remove write permissions, in other words, don't let anything (including Adobe's programs) modify it. That keeps it blank which keeps it from launching.

DXO OPTICS PRO - THAT'S MY ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION

So this was never really addressed.  Is there a workable solution, or are we bound by the license we agreed to, to run all this extra crap?

Yeah but my creative cloud application is NOT running so they can shut down as well.

Even more so after startup they need NOT to start by themselves.