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And once you install anything Adobe on your mac its basically impossible to completely remove it.




The fact that Adobe needs to distribute this tool is very, very sad.


I rely on AppZapper for this. One-click delete of apps and all related files. https://www.appzapper.com/


Has anyone had success using this with Adobe? I once had to install some Creative Cloud apps for a short-term project so I ran tree on the root directory as superuser before and immediately after installing and then used a diff checker so I’d know exactly what they put on my machine.

It took forever. When I was done with the project I “uninstalled” everything and then deleted every single file and folder from the list and manually poked around to see if there was anything lurking that I might have missed. I thought for sure I’d won.

About a week later I got a notification that Adobe Creative Cloud was requesting keychain access.

I’m convinced it’s un-uninstallable.


Believe me when I say your machine will still be sprinkled with crap after running AppZapper. If you want to remove it, you need something like https://rixstep.com/4/0/tracker/




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