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This will guarantee you that rebooting your Mac (which I guess was some 6 months ago or just a simple user logging out will not prompt you with the sh*tty annoying Adobe Update Manager The conent of the file is simple it sets a boolean valiable of Disable.Update to TrueĬat ~/Library/Preferences/.plist rw- 1 svetlana staff 62 Jun 6 19:52 /Users/svetlana/Library/Preferences/.plist You check the file's existence with ls -al ~/Library/Preferences/.plist You will get no output but anyways this nice command will have created for you inside your home directory ( /Library/Preferences/) the file Preferences/.plist * At the command prompt, paste this command exactlyĭefaults write Disable.Update -bool yes Launch Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/)

To get rid of the m'f'in Automatic Adobe Reader update

Adobe acrobat dc auto update disable for mac#

Thanksfully as I've googled quickly I found the fix on the common site for Mac problems Mac OS X Daily here There are not much people I know of that like to be puzzled on every next release about the new functionality he don't need anyways but I guess adobe's company aggressiveness escalated nowadays.

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This could get crazy every normal person that prefer to not update software so often. And soon I was unpleasently suprised that once installed Adobe automatically added auto-update service to the Mac and an auto-update policy that is popping up all the time with offers to update. I've recently installed Adobe Reader on the Mac Book Air of Svetlana, cause I still have some illusions some PDFs are visible more clearly with Adobe. Generally recent'y I've been more and more convinced the less you update the better.

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In that case, you will need to run “ sudo su -” first and type in your own password to gain root privilege (the prompt changes from “ $” to “ #”) before they can be removed. One reader also pointed out that in his case, the updater is installed in the system-wide location /Library/LaunchAgents. I don't have Creative Suite so I can't verify that.įurthermore, it appears that when you set Updater preference in Adobe Reader XI to "Do not download or install updates automatically," it now removes the launchd task as well, which means the launchctl and rm commands would no longer be necessary. I just installed Adobe (Acrobat) Reader XI and found that the name is still .*, but if you have Creative Suite, it might be .* instead. Feel free to remove them all.Įdit (Oct 20, 2012): a couple of readers pointed out in the comment that the launchd namespace used by Adobe Updater is now different. While you are at it, there may be other launchd jobs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents left over from stale applications you might have tried before. plist`īasically, the idea is, for each launchd plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents that you don't want, run launchctl remove on the job name, which is the same as the plist file name without the. To remove, type these commands in a Terminal window: If you look inside the file (it's a plain text file), you'd see that launchd would run the updater at 12600 seconds interval, or 3.5 hours. The actual file name is suffixed with a number of random characters, but it starts with "" as the prefix. The job file is stored under your ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder. To launchd, Adobe Updater is a periodic job. The updater is launched by a Mac OS X system service called launchd. To stop Adobe Updater completely, one must understand how it gets run in the first place. The fact that I'm dedicating system resource every now and then so the Adobe Updater can phone home but not tell me to update is not good enough for me. Adobe update manager is really annoying, but most instructions on the web to disable it merely tells Adobe Updater not to report updates the updater still runs silently.