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Stop the Adobe Creative Cloud app from auto-launching on login on macOS
#!/bin/bash
# =============================================================================
# @file GitHub gist
# @brief stop Adobe Creative Cloud app from auto-launching on login on macOS
# @author Michael Hucka <mhucka@caltech.edu>
# @created 2021-08-12
# @website https://gist.github.com/mhucka/59e785a315d813d14cd0258b89a2fcac
#
# I find Adobe Creative Cloud absolutely infuriating. It installs auto
# launchers that are not in the user's login app list, and the services are
# hard to find and hard to stop. This is a script to try to unload and kill
# off the services on a macOS system. Tested on Mojave (10.14).
#
# USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I'm not responsible for anthing that may happen if
# you use this.
# =============================================================================
# From https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/356217/6489
launchctl unload -w {,~}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.*.plist > /dev/null 2>&1
sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.*.plist > /dev/null 2>&1
# From https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/366252/6489
sudo launchctl disable system/com.adobe.acc.installer.v2 > /dev/null 2>&1
sudo launchctl disable system/com.adobe.acc.installer > /dev/null 2>&1
sudo launchctl disable system/Adobe_Genuine_Software_Integrity_Service > /dev/null 2>&1
sudo launchctl disable system/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud > /dev/null 2>&1
sudo launchctl disable system/com.adobe.agsservice > /dev/null 2>&1
launchctl disable gui/$(id -u)/com.adobe.acc.AdobeCreativeCloud.2416 > /dev/null 2>&1
launchctl disable gui/$(id -u)/com.adobe.accmac.2256 > /dev/null 2>&1
launchctl disable gui/$(id -u)/com.adobe.CCXProcess.2252 > /dev/null 2>&1
launchctl disable gui/$(id -u)/com.adobe.CreativeCloud > /dev/null 2>&1
launchctl disable gui/$(id -u)/com.adobe.CCLibrary.4032 > /dev/null 2>&1
launchctl disable gui/$(id -u)/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud > /dev/null 2>&1
# Additional things found necessary on my 10.14 system:
killall Adobe\ Desktop\ Service > /dev/null 2>&1
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