![]() ![]() ![]() If ] thenĮcho "Attempting to uninstall Acrobat DC 15" If [[ -d "$" -platform=osx10-64 -deleteUserPreferences=false Setup="/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/HDBox/Setup" UninstallDir="/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Uninstall" If you have some older installs out there, let me know if it works or not.Įdit: Now pulling sapCode and productVersion from the adbarg files instead of parsing them from the app uninstaller directory name. I've only tested this on 2020 versions of Adobe apps so it may or may not be useful for older Creative Cloud apps. I've also included additional code to specifically uninstall Acrobat and the Creative Cloud Desktop app. It then passes sapCode and current product version to the Setup executable. Instead of specifying a baseVersion, my script looks at "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Uninstall" to find a list of Adobe apps currently available for uninstall. I decided to see if that method could be automated to uninstall all currently installed Adobe apps. I recently came across this post by Anthony Reimer which details how to uninstall an Adobe app by it's sapCode and base install version number. Shout out Quora and StackExchange for assists with this.How to cleanly and properly uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud apps has been an ongoing Mac admin challenge for years. ![]() Splitting the above into 2, here is 1 line for User files only: rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe* ~/Library/Application\ Support///com.adobe* ~/Library/Application\ Support/CrashReporter/Adobe* ~/Library/Caches/Adobe ~/Library/Caches/com.Adobe.* ~/Library/Caches/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Cookies/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Logs/Adobe* ~/Library/PhotoshopCrashes ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe* ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia* ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.adobe.*Īnother for Systems files only ( admin password and restart required): sudo rm -rf /Applications/Adobe* /Applications/Utilities/Adobe* /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.adobe.* /private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.* Not surprising though, Flash broke so you may want to download and reinstall that. I reclaimed over 9 GB after these 2 steps removing apps, files and processes. Administrator password and a restart are required: sudo rm -rf /Applications/Adobe* /Applications/Utilities/Adobe* /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.adobe.* /private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe* ~/Library/Application\ Support///com.adobe* ~/Library/Application\ Support/CrashReporter/Adobe* ~/Library/Caches/Adobe ~/Library/Caches/com.Adobe.* ~/Library/Caches/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Cookies/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Logs/Adobe* ~/Library/PhotoshopCrashes ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe* ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia* ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.adobe.* Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.adobe.*Īfter running the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool, open Terminal and copy paste the following command to remove all of the above listed files and folders. ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.adobe.* ~/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/Adobe* ~/Library/Application Support///com.adobe* Summary of my results: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe* Adobe leftovers still living in your system! $ find ~/ -iname "*adobe*" The CC Cleaner Tool is a fair start but to see for yourself, open Terminal and use these commands. However, there were 13 errors and the process did not complete. My MacBook logged hundreds of deletions including launchds, which was nice. Files are deleted conservatively and the tool even sneaks some of its own into your system. Adobe does recommend running individual application uninstallers first, your call. Removing Adobe in 2 Steps Step 1: Try One Last Uninstallerĭownload and run the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool, their multi-app uninstaller and wipe assistant. Been using Sketch to draw anyway, Preview for PDFs, and there are too many photo editing apps out now. ![]() Lately, the 4 year old and last subscription-less CS6 hardly seems compatible on my 2015 MacBook running El Capitan. Since then I've migrated through 5 Macs keeping Adobe software installed all along the way. Soon, Sara helped me install a pre-Creative Suite version of Photoshop. My dad's coworker Sara was a Mac user too. My first Apple computer was a 2002 iMac G4 on nascent OS X Puma. Do you not use Photoshop, Illustrator or Acrobat anymore but have current or previous installs? Dissatisfied with uninstallers, want to speed things up and reclaim disk space? Scroll down for 2 steps to remove all things Adobe (except Flash). ![]()
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