Hi,
I just noticed now the same thing: AdobeResourceSynchronizer churning away taking up 80% of CPU time. This is after the first reboot on installing the latest version of Acrobat Reader on 10.6.
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Re: How to disable AdobeResourceSynchronizer?
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Do you have any other Adobe products installed, other than Adobe Reader? Did you install Reader for first time and noticed high CPU usage on reboot? Did you notice the same before the reboot?
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I've got Lightroom, and some of CS5 (Photoshop/Illustrator) installed. The high CPU usage came after installing the update to 10.0.3, not on the first installation. I only noticed high CPU usage after the initial reboot; I killed the process, and then rebooted, with no subsequent high CPU usage. Thanks!
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I tried both reader and Acrobat X.03 which activity Monitor on. It spiked at 75% then immediately dropped to .3% and stayed there. Of course I have 8GB of DDR3 1067 MB memory and am running 64 bit. (using a MacBookPro17" 8Gb RAM 500 GB SATA Hard Drive)
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I'm suffering from the same issue.
I'm on a MacBook Air running CS5 Master and Acrobat X Pro
10.6.7 OSX and running latest software updates.
Haven't touched Reader and there is no finding of the files mentioned in the blog post I read from 2006, or anyones suggestions for that matter.
I noticed my 15 day old computer getting garbage battery life, should be close to 5-6 hours, I was hitting maybe 2. Anyways, after troubleshooting with techs, noticed the high CPU usage of the aforementioned AdobeResou... So it would seem I'm suffering from the same issue and I have manually turned tracking off right after I installed Acrobat a week ago.
Seems to run between 56-79% usage, with peeks at 88%.
Adobe this is a really stupid issue, please provide a fix, or even a bloody patch. Can't Remove the login item and have it stay in hell either.
Thanks.
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Same machine, same OS version, same issue.
ADOBE ARE YOU LISTENING?
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I still have this problem and I really think this is a serious
problem. In one day, I left my laptop alone for a few hours and came
back. I found my laptop was so hot and almost felt like burning
inside. The main reason was AdodeResourceSynchronizer which was
running for hours consuming all CPU powers. There must be a solution
for this!!
Jong
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Ditch Adobe
>> There must be a solution for this!!
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AdobeResourceSucker came back even though it is clearly disabled in my Login Items. Probably Adobe Reader is launching it, since that is the only other Adobe thing I have installed.
Here is how to make sure it will never come back.
In a Terminal window, cd to the correct the correct directory.
$ pwd
/Applications/Adobe Reader.app/Contents/Support
Delete the sucker forever
$ sudo rm -rf AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app
Password:
You will be asked for your admin password. If you have never used sudo to do something, this is not a good command to try as your first one, since getting it wrong could cause a lot of pain.
Log out and log back in.
Actually, it will come back next time you do an update of Adobe Reader, so you'll need to do this again then.
Cheers.
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I deleted adobe reader first time I got the problem with the resource synchronizer.. I cant find or understand your directions I have to put in the terminal window..
Maybe I should not have deleted adobe reader from the beginning??
Do I have to reeboot the whole computer to get rid of this?
I am a newbie on mac and have problems to follow the very complicated steps to get rid of this!!
Please help!
My mac is now terrible to work with, or to do anything with because of the adobe resource synchronizer takes up 70-80% of the CPU all the time!
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My answer was definitely not intended for newbies.
A way to do it without Terminal, sudo and rm, all of which are somewhat dangerous and advanced, would be to locate AdobeReader.app using Finder.
Once you have located it --- in the /Applications folder, usually --- then single-click on it **while holding the control key** and choose "Show Package Contents."
Then dig around under the Contents directory until you find AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app.
Once you have found it, drag AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app to the trash.
I'm not positive this will work --- because Finder may refuse to delete an app that is running, and the whole problem with the resource synchronizer is that it is constantly running. That's why I did it with Terminal --- I was trying to avoid any of Finder's safety features. You could report for others whether doing it with Finder is allowed.
If it is allowed, then you finish by logging out and log back in. This will guarantee that any process that was running as you is ended. You don't have to do a full reboot.
If you update or reinstall Adobe Reader, you will have to go through this process again.
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Thanks for answer!
A problem though, when I press ctrl + single click I dont get up the "Show Package Contents." I dont know why I dont get up this as a option, just "copy" "delete", "show folder above" etc..
I had to install adobe reader again to find the AdobeReader.app...
Then I have to reeboot or is it any other solution? :/
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You need to be Ctrl-Clicking (or Right-Click) on the application itself, not the Adobe Reader folder. Done right it should look like this
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The instructions you are attempting to follow involve erasing the AdobeResourceSynchronizer app included inside the Acrobat or Reader app, using for this either the Finder or the Terminal app.
In my case what worked is different, it is based only on setting preferences. It is for Acrobat X Pro, but I imagine things are identical for Reader X:
- In System Preferences, select Accounts then your account in the column that appears on the left. Click on the Login Items tab, and make sure AdobeResourceSynchronizer isn't in the list below. If it is, select it then click on the - button below.
- In Acrobat or Reader, go to the Preferences in the Acrobat or Reader menu. Select Tracker in the column on the left. Make sure that "Automatically Check for New Comments and Form Data" is set to Never.
That was it for me! AdobeResourceSynchronizer came back once after this, possibly after applying an Acrobat update. So I redid the above, and it never came back (that was about 3 months ago).
Here is as a screenshot how the Tracker pref looks in my case.
Hope this works for you.
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I have been getting this exact same prob since I first installed Photoshop Elements a couple of weeks ago. First, I found all the log files that begin with AUX in private/var/log/asl/ and trashed them. But I had to force empty the trash to destroy them.
I also took away the AdobeResourceSynchronizer from my log-in items (I didn't even put it there myself).
Then I thought I was OK but doing a clone today I discovered that Carbon Copy Cloner was once again cloning THOUSANDS of new Adobe prefs files, all in folders with each folder bearing the date.
So I trashed them all AGAIN and once again finding AdobeResourceSynchronizer had sneaked back into my log-in items, I trashed that again too.
Then again I force-emptied the trash.
And guess what? Two seconds later, AdobeResourceSynchronizer was back in my log-in items and had already created a new folder with about 10 of those prefs files in it.
WHAT IS UP WITH THIS, ADOBE?
Now I have located AdobeResourceSynchronizer and completely deleted it from my system. I actually found TWO copies of it !!!
The best way to find all this stuff (on a Mac) is not with Spotlight because Spotlight won't go into the dark. You need EasyFind, which is FREE and which will go everywhere on your drive and will find invisible stuff too. Just be careful what you trash.
And how to empty the trash when you get that stupid message "cannot empty the trash because XXX is in use? I use Main Menu, which I paid for a while ago and which they want me to pay for AGAIN if I upgrade it. Which I am not going to do. The version I paid for still works on Lion. If you haven't got MainMenu I'm sure there are other ways for forcing the trash to empty.
Ok let me say this again.
WHAT IS UP WITH THIS, ADOBE? Why are you installing hidden rogue applications in parts of my system that ordinary use will never reveal until my entire hard drive gets filled up and crashes, without asking me first?
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Yepp, I'm having the same issue. Thousands of files in private/var/log/asl that takes hours for CCC to clone. However I don't have Elements nor Adobe Reader installed, but Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, a Flash player and Adobe AIR, ...
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That's interesting.
You say you don't have Elements nor Adobe Reader installed, but Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, a Flash player and Adobe AIR.
The only application we both had installed is Adobe AIR.
I suggest you do an EasyFind (see my previous post) search for Adobe AIR and delete everything associated with it.
Then see if you're still getting all those files. There should always be a few of them because the system needs them, but never more than about 10.
Apparently Adobe AIR is not essential for anything.
Please post back here to let me know if this solves the problem.
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I could easily locate Adobe AIR on my drive together with an uninstaller for it. However there are a couple of applications that depends on Adobe AIR, such as Tweetdeck, Eye-Fi Center and of course Adoby Community Help and Adobe Media Player.
For the moment I will leave Adobe AIR as is, and instead having Carbon Copy Cloner exclude the private/var/log directory. I realize that the problem itself (something creating all those *?%&* files) still exist, but I only suffer from it during backups/cloning. so I can live with it for a while.
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Your choice - but remember that those hundreds of thousands of files are continuing to be created. I don't know how long it might take to completely fill your hard drive but at some point that is what is going to happen.
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I totally agree, Tom. It's annoying that so many files are created on the disk. But it will take many years until they have eaten all my free space. I hope that Adobe will come with a bugfix/upgrade that makes this **** go away. For now, I will not include them in the CCC backup. I'm aware this is not a solution...
I will report it as a bug at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
[Edit:] It was already filed and closed https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=2938781
Message was edited by: Snaxalig
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