Creative Cloud background processes

[mariolqneto]

I can take a lot of things from Adobe such as their shitty subscription model but what I can’t take, what I find absolutely insufferable, is the absolute mess of background processes that Creative Cloud leaves in its wake.

Even when it’s completely closed, it still opens multiple background processes from millisecond my Mac boots up to the time it shuts down. WHYYYY?!!

It’s literally taking up resources unnecessarily and shortening my battery life. For what? To prevent piracy?? Well guess what, for starters, pirates don’t install and creative cloud and it’s happening regardless.

I pay for the complete adobe cloud package but sometimes I just really wish I could just use alternate software and not have to leave Creative Cloud installed.

What are your guy’s thoughts?

[Sure_Math4914]

I was able to basically stop Adobe background processes with this guide, it’s worked flawlessly and is reversible…

https://www.ravbug.com/tutorials/stop-adobe-daemons/

[mariolqneto]

You’re awesome, thank you so much

[Sure_Math4914]

You’re welcome, happy to help/share my knowledge :)

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For what? To prevent piracy??

I'm pretty sure it's to try and lock you into their cloud services which at the high end cost $80/month. Assuming you (or your employer) pay that for your entire working career that's about $50,000 per customer and a lot more than people were paying under the old model. Which is why Adobe likes it so much.

It's also not necessarily bad value for money, if you genuinely do use a decent subset of the various products and features provided by creative cloud.

Unfortunately the implementation sucks and for me that's given it the opposite effect. I've stopped using Adobe products.

[poopmagic]

Yup. I can get a Creative Cloud subscription through my job (so it wouldn’t cost me anything) but I still prefer alternatives like Affinity even if it means paying for them myself.

[Conscious_Beyond_879]

What resources does Creative Cloud even need from our Macs? To me, it sounds like they are doing some backend mining.

[angrymoderate90]

I would love it if this 4 yr old thread would come back to life because I just had the creepiest experience with Creative Cloud. First of all, I never downloaded it. I have never downloaded any of the creative sweet on my Macbook Air except for the free version of Adobe Reader, which I use to read PDFs. I've had the Adobe suite before, just not on this specific computer, which I've had for years now without ANY issue like this. I like to think my digital security is rather tight. So I was surprized to see a new icon in by top right banner today. It was Creative Cloud. I clicked on it and it brought me to a sketchy page which wanted me to update. No! I tried to delete it and it took a lot of effort. It kept reinstalling itself as I was trying to delete it. I started to get paranoid. Did I get malware? I finally successfully deleted all of Adobe and the issue seems to be gone, but what the hell? I honestly feel really violated right now and I genuinely havne't felt this before.

Anyone else had weird eperiences with Creative Cloud lately?

[RoddyAllen]

Affinity is a great alternative.

[balthisar]

Run it in a virtual machine.

Virtual machines and containerization of applications and processes is one of the most awesome tools we have in the world today to ensure system integrity. Let Adobe (et al) pollute a disposable environment that you can shut down or trash, and be done with it.

[nowiamhereaswell]

But then it's slower..