Creative Cloud app is crashing

[BoudewijnV]

Since the latest MacOS Sierra update the Creative Cloud App keeps crashing after a couple of minutes. Reports of Adobe Desktop Service crashes keep on piling up in the log files. The app asks to be reinstalled fresh from the Adobe site, but this doesn't work either. I'm on a Macbook Pro 2015 and running MacOS Sierra 10.12.3beta.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

uninstall everything cc including preferences, https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/uninstall-remove-app.html

then uninstall the cc desktop app, https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/uninstall-creative-cloud-desktop-app.html

clean your computer of cc files per http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

restart your computer (don't skip this)

reinstall the cc desktop app, https://creative.adobe.com/products/creative-cloud. (if you have a win os, right click the exe > click 'run as administrator'.

use the desktop app to install your cc programs/trials

[BoudewijnV]

Thanks for your answer.

After a bit of contemplation, I decided not to follow this through. The reasons being that the first link tells me to use the Creative Cloud app. This app was the one that continuously crashed and the other being that it seemed a very drastic approach removing everything including presets, plugins, etc.

But thanks anyway!

[kglad]

you're welcome.

[Govardhan.V]

You may try clean re-installation process.

Step 1)

Click on the Finder and look for the options listed next to Apple Icon located at the top left corner of the Desktop screen and click on "Go" menu button and select "Utilities" option.

(Applications>Utiliites)

Locate Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Application Manager folder under Utilities window and trash both folders.

Step 2)

Trash Adobe Creative Cloud folder from Applications as well.

Step 3)

1) Right click on Finder icon and  select "Go-ToFolder " option.

2) You will get a text box, type-in below command and then hit 'Return' key.( Do not miss ~ symbol)

~/library

3)Then navigate to Application Support>Adobe.

Open Adobe folder and trash folders named AAMUpdater and OOBE.

Step 4)

1) Right click on Finder icon and  select "Go-To" Folder option.

2) You will get a text box, type-in below command and then hit 'Return' key.

/library

3)Then navigate to Application Support>Adobe.

Open Adobe folder and trash folders named AAMUpdater ,Adobe Application Manager and OOBE.

Step 5)

Click on the below link and download & run Adobe Cleaner tool :

Select the option "Adobe Application Manager for Mac OS X 10.6" and then click on "Clean up Selected" .

http://download.macromedia.com/SupportTools/Cleaner/mac/AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool.dmg

Step 6 )

Click on the below link and download Adobe Application Manager and install the same :

http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/creativesuite/cc/mac/ApplicationManager10.0_all.dmg

Once the installation process is completed, installation box will disappear, then open Application folder and locate Adobe Application manager launch icon , double click on it and update .

Once the update is completed. It shud launch Adobe Creative Cloud app.

[Rob5F84]

All of that... that is Adobe's job, not mine. I think I'll just switch to a software that actually functions.

[kglad]

you posted to an 4 year old thread with outdated answers.  a current answer:

first try, resetting the cc app. to reset the Creative Cloud desktop app, make sure it's in the foreground, then press: Win: Ctrl + Alt + R Mac: Cmd + Opt + R

[S4ES4E]

I may have found a solution to this. If I go to https://www.adobe.com/au/creativecloud.html and make sure I am logged in before I access Photoshop or InDesign (for example) it seems to keep them open. I was having trouble wih them closing as most people here seem to, but since I did this, I haven't had any issues for the last four days (when I made the accidental discovery).