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| #!/bin/bash | |
| if [ "$1" = "-s" ] || [ "$1" = "--show" ]; then | |
| show=true | |
| else | |
| show=false | |
| fi | |
| if $show || [ "$1" = "-v" ] || [ "$1" = "--verbose" ]; then | |
| verbose=true | |
| else | |
| verbose=false | |
| fi | |
| kill_list="" | |
| for i in $(pgrep -i adobe); do | |
| if $verbose; then | |
| echo -n "PID $i -- " | |
| ps -p "$i" -o command $($show || echo -c) | awk 'ORS=""; NR==2' | |
| fi | |
| ps -p "$i" -o command | awk 'NR==2' | grep -E '^/Applications/Adobe XD/Adobe XD\.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe XD$' > /dev/null | |
| if [ $? -eq 1 ] ; then | |
| $verbose && echo " -- KILL" | |
| kill_list="$kill_list $i" | |
| else | |
| $verbose && echo " -- KEEP ALIVE" | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| if [ -z "$kill_list" ] ; then | |
| $verbose && echo "Nothing to kill" | |
| else | |
| if $verbose; then | |
| echo "KILL_LIST = $kill_list" | |
| set -x | |
| fi | |
| $show || sudo kill -TERM $kill_list | |
| fi |
Would it be possible to extend this script for more apps than just XD? I use quite a lot of Adobe apps...
@hrvstr, modify the grep on line 17 (now line 23, I've edited the script) as appropriate, e.g. if you use PhotoShop and XD, something like the following:
ps -p "$i" -o command | awk 'NR==2' | grep -E '^/Applications/Adobe (XD|PhotoShop)/Adobe (XD|PhotoShop)\.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe (XD|PhotoShop)$' > /dev/null
I don't know the actual paths for anything other than XD, though, and don't fancy installing each app to find out/confirm my guess, so the above is just indicative.
I've modified the script so you can run it with --show or -s to just show the full paths of all the found processes and the arguments they were called with, e.g. ./kill-adobe-daemons.sh --show.
Doing that on my system with XD running, for example, gives me the following:
PID 502 -- /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/IPCBox/AdobeIPCBroker.app/Contents/MacOS/AdobeIPCBroker -launchedbyvulcan /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/Creative Cloud.app/Contents/MacOS/Creative Cloud -- KILL
PID 525 -- /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/ADS/Adobe Desktop Service.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Desktop Service --onOSstartup=true --showwindow=false -- KILL
PID 559 -- /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/ADS/Adobe Desktop Service.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeCrashReporter.framework/Versions/A/AdobeCRDaemon.app/Contents/MacOS/AdobeCRDaemon 525 Adobe Desktop Service 5.3.1 /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/ADS/Adobe Desktop Service.app/Contents/Resources/CreativeCloudApp.icns /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/ADS/Adobe Desktop Service.app/Contents/Frameworks/AdobeCrashReporter.framework/Versions/A/Adobe Crash Reporter.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Crash Reporter 0 5.3.1 5.3.1.470 Adobe Desktop Service 1 1 1 0 8.0.6 -- KILL
PID 568 -- /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.adobe.acc.installer.v2 -- KILL
PID 573 -- /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/ElevationManager/Adobe Installer --pipename=E4A4A4F3-AA77-4CFD-8E5B-37E3048EF021 -- KILL
PID 578 -- /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud Experience/CCXProcess/CCXProcess.app/Contents/MacOS/../libs/Adobe_CCXProcess.node /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud Experience/CCXProcess/CCXProcess.app/Contents/MacOS/../js/main.js -- KILL
PID 2079 -- /Applications/Adobe XD/Adobe XD.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe XD -- KEEP ALIVE
The output contains arguments passed to each running app found by the search, so you will need to remove any that are present, e.g. if I wanted to keep Adobe Installer running, I'd look at the following line:
PID 573 -- /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/ElevationManager/Adobe Installer --pipename=E4A4A4F3-AA77-4CFD-8E5B-37E3048EF021 -- KILL
It's fairly clear from that output that the path is /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/ElevationManager/Adobe Installer; the --pipename stuff is an argument passed to the app. Thus, to also have that kept alive, I'd change the grep line to read:
ps -p "$i" -o command | awk 'NR==2' | grep -E '^(/Applications/Adobe XD/Adobe XD\.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe XD|/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/ElevationManager/Adobe Installer)( |$)' > /dev/null
There, I've changed the $ at the end to ( |$) so that it doesn't matter whether a particular app is called with or without any arguments; that regex handles both cases.
Running with --show after making that modification then shows the same output, except the line for Adobe Installer says -- KEEP ALIVE instead of -- KILL at the end, confirming what it will do when run without --show.
You could also just be very loose with the regex used by grep for the matching search, using something like:
ps -p "$i" -o command | awk 'NR==2' | grep -Ei 'Adobe (XD|PhotoShop)' > /dev/null
The -E is changed to -Ei there so that the grep is case-insensitive. Thus, if you get the casing of Photoshop/PhotoShop wrong, for example, it doesn't matter. The only potential caveat of using a loose search like this is that there might be other processes with both "adobe" and "photoshop" in their path/arguments (I don't know if this will actually be the case for whatever CC apps you're running), so you run the risk of matching those and keeping them, which may be undesirable.
Perhaps a better way to do things is to use -c in the ps that's passed to the grep which actually does the matching, too, so that only the name of the executable itself is needed. The following might then do exactly what you need:
ps -p "$i" -o command -c | awk 'NR==2' | grep -Ei '^Adobe (XD|PhotoShop)$' > /dev/null
(Apologies for the extremely long comment, this was just a stream of consciousness, really.)
Hi @jivanpal here my contribute with some real path. See if you need more
Adobe Applications path
Acrobat DC
realpath ~/Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app
➜ ~ cd /Applications/Adobe\ Acrobat\ DC
➜ ~ pwd
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC
➜ ~ ls -lah
total 176
drwxrwxr-x@ 6 root wheel 192B Jun 10 18:26 .
drwxrwxr-x 30 root admin 960B Jun 11 23:48 ..
drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 96B Oct 3 2019 Acrobat Distiller.app
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1.1K Jun 10 18:26 Acrobat Uninstaller
drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 96B Jun 10 18:26 Adobe Acrobat.app
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 0B Jun 10 18:26 Icon?
➜ ~ realpath /Applications/Adobe\ Acrobat\ DC/Adobe\ Acrobat.app
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.appCreative Cloud (note is a redirect into a more complex structure)
realpath ~/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/Creative Cloud.app
➜ ~ cd /Applications/Adobe\ Creative\ Cloud
➜ ~ pwd
/Applications/Adobe Creative Cloud
➜ ~ ls -lah
total 200
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root admin 192B May 12 05:47 .
drwxrwxr-x 30 root admin 960B Jun 11 23:48 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 82B Oct 3 2019 .Uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud_bkp -> /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud//Utils/Creative Cloud Uninstaller.app
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 67B May 12 05:47 Adobe Creative Cloud -> /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/Creative Cloud.app
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin 0B May 12 05:47 Icon?
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 82B Oct 3 2019 Uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud -> /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud//Utils/Creative Cloud Uninstaller.app
➜ ~ realpath /Applications/Adobe\ Creative\ Cloud/Adobe\ Creative\ Cloud
/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/Creative Cloud.appPhotoshop 2021
realpath ~/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2021/Adobe Photoshop 2021.app
➜ ~ cd /Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ 2021
➜ ~ pwd
/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2021
➜ ~ ls -lah
total 160
drwxr-xr-x@ 9 root wheel 288B Jun 13 03:30 .
drwxrwxr-x 30 root admin 960B Jun 11 23:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96B Jun 13 03:29 Adobe Photoshop 2021.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96B Jun 13 03:29 Configuration
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 0B Jun 13 03:30 Icon?
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 96B May 18 10:58 Locales
drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root wheel 128B Jun 13 03:30 Plug-ins
drwxr-xr-x 39 root wheel 1.2K Jun 13 03:30 Presets
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 948B Jun 13 03:30 Uninstall Adobe Photoshop 2021
➜ ~ realpath /Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ 2021/Adobe\ Photoshop\ 2021.app
/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2021/Adobe Photoshop 2021.appUtilities folder structure
Because Creative Cloud has redirect, tell us if you need any other real path
➜ ~ cd /Applications/Utilities
➜ ~ pwd
/Applications/Utilities
➜ ~ ls -lah
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 288B Jun 9 01:31 .
drwxrwxr-x 30 root admin 960B Jun 11 23:48 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0B Jan 1 2020 .localized
drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 448B May 12 05:47 Adobe Application Manager
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 256B May 12 05:47 Adobe Creative Cloud
drwxrwxr-x 3 root wheel 96B Jun 9 01:31 Adobe Creative Cloud Experience
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128B Apr 23 22:15 Adobe Genuine Service
drwxrwxr-x 4 root admin 128B Jun 13 03:30 Adobe Installers
drwxrwxr-x 5 root wheel 160B Jun 8 01:35 Adobe Sync
So, I've tweaked what I believe is a better catch-all GREP for many Creative Cloud apps, based on standard adobe installations and naming conventions.
ps -p "$i" -o command | awk 'NR==2' | grep -E '^\/Applications\/(Adobe( (\w)+)+)( [0-9]{4})?\/Adobe( (\w)+)+( [0-9]{4})?\.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/(\1|AdobeAcrobat|After Effects)$'
So, I've tweaked what I believe is a better catch-all GREP for many Creative Cloud apps, based on standard adobe installations and naming conventions.
ps -p "$i" -o command | awk 'NR==2' | grep -E '^\/Applications\/(Adobe( (\w)+)+)( [0-9]{4})?\/Adobe( (\w)+)+( [0-9]{4})?\.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/(\1|AdobeAcrobat|After Effects)$'
This seems to work really well. The only thing I noticed is that it didn't catch CCLibrary.app.
How can I undo the script?
I did simply rename "CCXProcess.app" to "CCXProcess-.app", and it works.
No adobecrdaemon is keeping running now.
I am using iMac.
@HarithSami The script just kills currently running processes, it doesn't make any permanent changes to the system configuration, so there is nothing to undo. If you restart Creative Cloud or just open one of the Creative Cloud apps, the daemons should be started again.
Here's a really great kill-apps helper from sunknudsen/privacy-guides that can be added to .zshrc:
# Kill apps that match string
function kill-apps() {
IFS=$'\n'
red=$(tput setaf 1)
normal=$(tput sgr0)
if [ -z "$1" ] || [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then
printf "%s\n" "Usage: kill-apps string"
return 0
fi
printf "%s\n" "Finding apps that match “$1”…"
sleep 1
processes=($(pgrep -afil "$1"))
if [ ${#processes[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
printf "%s\n" "No apps found"
return 0
else
printf "%s\n" "${processes[@]}"
printf "$red%s$normal" "Kill found apps (y or n)? "
read -r answer
if [ "$answer" = "y" ]; then
printf "%s\n" "Killing found apps…"
sleep 1
for process in "${processes[@]}"; do
echo $process | awk '{print $1}' | xargs sudo kill 2>&1 | grep -v "No such process"
done
printf "%s\n" "Done"
return 0
fi
fi
}paste above script into ~/.zshrc and then run source ~/.zshrc. Then you can just use commands like kill-apps adobe to kill all adobe related stuff.
A simple Bash script intended for Adobe Creative Cloud users that kills its needlessly resource-intensive background processes (particularly Adobe Desktop Service and Core Sync) by:
pgrepto find processes with "adobe" (case insensitive) in the name; and thenI removed Adobe's
launchdservices from the following directories:/Library/LaunchAgents/Library/LaunchDaemons~/Library/LaunchAgentsThen I put this script in a cronjob that runs every 5 minutes. The
sudoon line 40 obviously isn't needed when in a cronjob that runs asroot.After removing Adobe's
launchdservices, it seems that the processes I want to kill are only launched when Adobe XD itself is launched, so rather than having a 5-minute cronjob that does nothing almost all of the time, it would make more sense to have alaunchdservice which runs this script whenever Adobe XD is launched; or whenever an offending app is launched, but that seems more difficult. I would be grateful if anyone who knowslaunchdbetter than I do could create such a.plist.If you want to see the PIDs and names of the processes that the script finds, and which of those it decides to kill, you can use the
-vor--verboseoption.