Note that the following will also disable Adobe automatic update checking. From what I have seen, you will need to repeat this step after each Adobe Creative Cloud upgrade.įor the launchd jobs, read on. To turn off everything Adobe launches at startup on the Mac you need to both disable its launchd jobs and the Adobe Core Sync extension.įor the Adobe Core Sync extension, it is a Finder Sync extension so you can disable it under System Preferences → Extensions as described in this answer. Note: The “Preferences” option does not appear until you log in to Creative Cloud. To turn it back on launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/Ĭlick the ellipsis icon at the top-right.
If you run launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/
It is loaded by default by /Library/LaunchAgents/.