Instructions for Removal of Various Adobe Cloud Services

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I have found that Adobe services still worked fine after doing this, but your milage may vary, so be sure to have a back-up of your original install media or whatever.

You may or may not have these services, you can lookup what is running on your machine with launchctl list |grep -i adobe also run with sudo to find what is running at higher privledges.

User Level

Stop Services

launchctl stop com.adobe.acc.AdobeDesktopService.2252.965FE800-C621-41D6-898D-821201FB2F8A
launchctl stop com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud
launchctl stop com.adobe.GC.Scheduler-1.0
launchctl stop com.adobe.CCXProcess.7436
launchctl stop com.adobe.accmac.7440

Remove Services

launchctl remove com.adobe.acc.AdobeDesktopService.2252.965FE800-C621-41D6-898D-821201FB2F8A
launchctl remove com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud
launchctl remove com.adobe.GC.Scheduler-1.0
launchctl remove com.adobe.CCXProcess.7436
launchctl remove com.adobe.accmac.7440

Gzip the plist Files

sudo gzip /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
sudo gzip /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist
sudo gzip /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.GC.Invoker-1.0.plist

Root Level

Stop Services

sudo launchctl stop com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon
sudo launchctl stop Adobe_Genuine_Software_Integrity_Service
sudo launchctl stop com.adobe.fpsaud

Remove Services

sudo launchctl remove com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon
sudo launchctl remove Adobe_Genuine_Software_Integrity_Service
sudo launchctl remove com.adobe.fpsaud

Gzip the plist Files

sudo gzip /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.adobeupdatedaemon.plist
sudo gzip /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.agsservice.plist
sudo gzip /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.fpsaud.plist