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How to disable Adobe Creative Cloud during startup on the Mac

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Whenever any Adobe Creative Cloud application, such as Photoshop, is installed on macOS a number of backgroundprocesses are created for a seamless experience across their suite of applications.However, if none of these features are required, then you are stuck with some unnecessary “bloatware”.We will in this quick guide show how you can disable Creative Cloud during startup on your Mac.

Adobe Creative Cloud Bloatware

Before we start let us have a quick look at the processes that our friends at Adobe install behind our back.

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As you can see we have at least 14 running processes consuming a total of 367 MB of unnecessary RAM.Let us go ahead and make the necessary changes to disable them during system startup.

Disable Creative Cloud

In a Terminal, type the following two commands:

This will prevent any Creative Cloud process from launching during system startup*.

*Please note that certain services are required to run the actual Adobe application, so when you for example startPhotoshop, a few processes will re-appear in the Activity Monitor.

Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

Enable Creative Cloud

If you decide to use Creative Cloud again, the services can simply be re-enabled by typing the following commands:

The services will start immediately without having to reboot.

Adobe Resource Synchronizer Mac

Summary

This guide has shown how you can prevent Adobe Creative Cloud from launching during system startup.

Further information

For further information, type launchctl without any additional arguments.

Adobe Resource Synchroniser Mac

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