If you're running on battery, this thing is constantly depleting your battery life. I often run on battery and that's why I needed to get rid of the problem totally.
Going back to the top of this thread, the issue may be with AdobeResourceSynchronizer.
I have gone through the (very labyrinthine) process of reporting this to Adobe as an issue. Let's hope someone comes back with a solution!
Yes, I understand your situation. But I don't have that problem. The AdobeResourceSynchronizer doesn't show up in my Activiy Monitor at all. My battery is not drained. I'm still flooded with thousands of tiny files in private/var/log/asl though.
I found AdobeResourceSynchronizer in my log-in items. When I removed it from my log-in items it simply re-created itself. It's still there and I can't get rid of it. But I'm not even sure if that is the cause of the problem.
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WTF Adobe?!
This is lame, lame, lame.
Fix this!
xg- is it happening to you too? Can you provide any details?
Yes, it's happening to me.
I'm on a MBP 15" 2010 i5 model OS 10.6.8.
As per advice in this thread, I opened both Adobe Acrobat Pro (9.4.5) and Acrobat Reader (10.1.0), and disabled any tracked reviews.
Also, I opened the Activity Monitor and quit the "AdobeResourceSynchronizer" process. This process was using over 80% of my CPU power.
My machine had been heating up and the fan was whizzing. The bottom of my laptop was getting so hot it was nearly burning my leg—and this was just with normal use. Once I quit the "AdobeResourceManager" process, the machine cooled down and began to operate normally.
I'm sure this heat buildup is not good for my expensive machine, and so I have gotten into the habit of opening the Activity Monitor every time I turn on the laptop. This is an inconvenient step, and grows my frustration with Adobe with every use of my laptop.
Sometimes the "AdobeResourceManager" begins to run when I turn my laptop on, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I forget to check the Activity Monitor. When the laptop begins to overheat and the fan comes on, I open Activity Monitor and quit "AdobeResourceMaager".
Obviously I'm displeased about this. I'm happy to have discovered the cause of the rapid heat and CPU spike before permanent damage was done. I paid a lot of money for my Adobe software, and even more for the laptop on which to run it. I'm actively investigating alternatives to Adobe software.
I posted a request for help with this, in the Photoshop forum, weeks ago, and there has been no response. Thanks, Adobe.
So it looks like we're going to have to try and troubleshoot this one ourselves.
I see you're stll on 10.6.8 and I'm on OSX 10.7.1 Lion, so we can exclude the possibility that it has anything to do with any particular version of OSX.
It does appear to have something to do with "AdobeResourceSynchronizer" and "AdobeResourceManager".
My problems started when I installed Photoshop Elements. So I deleted everything Adobe and then carefully re-installed the other Adobe things I need: Acrobat Professional and Acrobat Reader, neither of which is giving me any problems.
"AdobeResourceManager" does not exist on my system. There's no "AdobeResourceSynchronizer" either. There are a few things with "Synchronizer" in the filename that are stashed away in system directories that have to do with Acrobat.
One of them is a plist file.
What Adobe applications are installed on your system?
As per advice in this thread, I opened both Adobe Acrobat Pro (9.4.5) and Acrobat Reader (10.1.0), and disabled any tracked reviews.
Also, I opened the Activity Monitor and quit the "AdobeResourceSynchronizer" process. This process was using over 80% of my CPU power.
Disabling any track review may not be enough. You should also go to System Prefs, select your account in Users & Groups, then select Login Items and make sure Adobe Resource Synchronizer is not present there. If it is, select it and press the - button.
Hopefully that would prevent Adobe Resource Synchronizer from opening every time you log in, and then for you to have to kill the process in Activity Monitor.
As per advice in this thread, I opened both Adobe Acrobat Pro (9.4.5) and Acrobat Reader (10.1.0), and disabled any tracked reviews. Also, I opened the Activity Monitor and quit the "AdobeResourceSynchronizer" process. This process was using over 80% of my CPU power.
AdobeResourceSynchronizer isn't normally visible, it's inside the Acrobat app itself.
On my setup it's at
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat X Pro/Adobe Acrobat Pro.app/Contents/Support/AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app
To see it, navigate to Applications/Adobe Acrobat X Pro (or similar for Acrobat 9 or Reader 10 on your setup), Control-Click or Right-Click the application there and select "Show Package Contents". Afterwards you should be able to see what's inside the app.
I've got a CS5 package:
Photoshop
Fireworks
Illustrator
Dreamweaver
Muse*
Captivate*
Flash
Flash Catalyst
Flash Builder
Acrobat Reader
Acrobat Pro
Bridge
Device Central
Contribute
Media Encoder
Media Player
*not part of CS5; added separately
Using the Activity Monitor is the only way I can catch and stop the Adobe process. An awkward solution; at the least I can keep the machine from overheating.
Thanks bvoisin, I'll follow your advice.
I found "AdobeResourceSynchronizer" as a log-in item and disabled it. Thanks for the tip.
Adobe seems to be aggressive in checking that all items are up-to-date. That tact may be appreciated by some, but I prefer to check for updates as I open an application. Hopefully disabling that log-in item will stop Adobe from trying to be so "helpful".
I've just installed, for the first time on this computer, Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended and, sure enough, it installed ""AdobeResourceSynchronizer" as a login item. I have deleted it from there.
Now I'll be watching to see if it installs itself again.
Question:
Since AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app is an application, what would happen if I simply trashed it from my system?
I was also not able to use Finder to delete the AdobeResourceSynchronizer, but I used iStat to force quit the process. Go to your iStat widget in Dashboard, click the activity monitor on the left side, which will open a window. Find AdobeResourceSynchronizer, double click, hit quit, hit force quit. Now you can proceed to use finder > adobe > contents etc. to trash the *******.
My CPU usage went down from 80-90% to 5% when idle. My temps also dropped from 80-90 degrees celcius (while idle!!) back down to normal 40-60 degrees.
Thanks for your help.
I just encountered this problem now. Ever since I installed Adobe Reader (yesterday), my Macbook Pro got very loud. I checked Activity Monitor and saw this AdobeResourceSynchronizer running in the background. And after a long time googling, I finally found this thread. So I followed post #8, 25 and 26, and remove the AdobeResourceSynchronizer from Login and delete it from inside the Adobe Reader app, and set "Automatically Check for New Comments and Form Data" to Never. And after rebooting the computer, the app never appears again.
Thank you everyone.
Same bs happens with Adobe Acrobat DC. AdobeResourceSynchronizer ate up all my disk space after opening rather modest 651MB file for optimization (it generates huge file in ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/DC/Acrobat/Synchronizer in my case it was 125GB file and growing).
So I removed AdobeResourceSynchronizer from DC package, stopped its process, removed it from login items on Mac OS Preferences, deleted the sucker temp file in ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/DC/Acrobat/Synchronizer, and you know what I felt?
NEED TO SWITCH FROM ADOBE LIKE FOREVER!!!
WOW...I finally found something that makes sense.
I used PDF form sent to me by a company to complete information and send back to them. Now, about every hour, I receive an Adobe message saying that it cannot synchronize with the company's server. BTW, I never had to sync with the company at all.
I CANNOT FIND ANY SOLUTION TO REMOVE THE DEMONIC SPIRIT FROM MY COMPUTER.
I have MacBook 10.10.5
Adobe Pro 9.0
I posted on another Adobe forum with no response.
HELP!
ADOBE - THIS IS UTTERLY INEXCUSABLE.
I have had so many problems with so many Adobe apps in the past year, and now find this craptastic AdobeResourceSynchronizer is crashing all the time, using up valuable resources and most Adobe apps like InDesign, Illustrator and PhotoShop do not wake up from my MacBook's sleep.
What is Adobe going to do about this AdobeResourceSynchronizer ********? And the fact these apps don't wake from a sleeping MacBook?
Need to know asap.
Affinity has come out with options for Illustrator and PhotoShop. The mere instant they develop a page layout app I'll be dropping Adobe like I did Quark when they failed to keep pace with technology and produced unstable crap.
Adobe, you are officially on notice here.
I expect results.
I have been having the same issue with brand new iMac processing everything at a snails pace.
I removed AdobeResourceSynchronizer from System Preferences/Users & Groups/Login Items and adjusted Adobe Pro Preferences/Tracker "Automatically Check for New Comments and Form Data" to never.
My iMac seems to be performing much better now.
All of the answers on this thread are BS. You can do all three and it will not work. Their staff answers below only take you to other misleading staff answers that give you wrong answers.
Anyone have suggestions on who to dump this software for and get a better company.
I tried them all and called their tech support. Two different of their Help desk guys refused to even admit it was happening at all or was a problem and then said if I would just buy the $100 tech support to fix the viruses on my mac it would solve the problem.
I cleaned all my Key Chain out and the problem stopped.
Adobe has become a corrupt company.