- To completely uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and remove its vestiges, you just need to do 3 simple steps: launch select uninstall. Take a quick look at how it works. Video: How to easily & thoroughly uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (or other Mac apps).
- How to manually uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on Mac. Here are the steps on how to remove Adobe Reader from your Mac with all of its support files, such as caches, logs, preferences, and so on: Open Finder and go to the Applications folder. Find and move the Adobe Reader application into the Trash.
- To finish off the complete removal of Adobe Flash Player from your computer, head over to Finder. In the Search field, enter 'installflashplayer'. Right-click on the installflashplayerosx.dmg file and select Move to Trash.
The steps above to remove Creative Cloud or an individual application within it should work in most cases, but if you're still having issues with the service or a particular app, you can try the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool, a free utility from Adobe that can 'more precisely remove installation records for Creative Cloud or Creative Suite.
Do you not use Photoshop, Illustrator or Acrobat anymore but have current or previous installs? Dissatisfied with uninstallers, want to speed things up and reclaim disk space? Scroll down for 2 steps to remove all things Adobe (except Flash).
Remove Adobe Flash From Mac
Enduring Adobe
My first Apple computer was a 2002 iMac G4 on nascent OS X Puma. My dad's coworker Sara was a Mac user too. Soon, Sara helped me install a pre-Creative Suite version of Photoshop.
Since then I've migrated through 5 Macs keeping Adobe software installed all along the way.
Lately, the 4 year old and last subscription-less CS6 hardly seems compatible on my 2015 MacBook running El Capitan. Been using Sketch to draw anyway, Preview for PDFs, and there are too many photo editing apps out now. Good run Adobe but it's time to go.
Removing Adobe in 2 Steps
Step 1: Try One Last Uninstaller
Download and run the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool, their multi-app uninstaller and wipe assistant. Adobe does recommend running individual application uninstallers first, your call. Click the Clean All option.
This works ok. Files are deleted conservatively and the tool even sneaks some of its own into your system. My MacBook logged hundreds of deletions including launchds, which was nice. However, there were 13 errors and the process did not complete. Adobe folders and files remain.
Step 2: Type a One Line Command
The CC Cleaner Tool is a fair start but to see for yourself, open Terminal and use these commands. How to clean mac pc. Adobe leftovers still living in your system!
Summary of my results:
The One-Liner
After running the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool, open Terminal and copy paste the following command to remove all of the above listed files and folders. Administrator password and a restart are required:
I reclaimed over 9 GB after these 2 steps removing apps, files and processes. Not surprising though, Flash broke so you may want to download and reinstall that.
Enduring Adobe
My first Apple computer was a 2002 iMac G4 on nascent OS X Puma. My dad's coworker Sara was a Mac user too. Soon, Sara helped me install a pre-Creative Suite version of Photoshop.
Since then I've migrated through 5 Macs keeping Adobe software installed all along the way.
Lately, the 4 year old and last subscription-less CS6 hardly seems compatible on my 2015 MacBook running El Capitan. Been using Sketch to draw anyway, Preview for PDFs, and there are too many photo editing apps out now. Good run Adobe but it's time to go.
Removing Adobe in 2 Steps
Step 1: Try One Last Uninstaller
Download and run the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool, their multi-app uninstaller and wipe assistant. Adobe does recommend running individual application uninstallers first, your call. Click the Clean All option.
This works ok. Files are deleted conservatively and the tool even sneaks some of its own into your system. My MacBook logged hundreds of deletions including launchds, which was nice. However, there were 13 errors and the process did not complete. Adobe folders and files remain.
Step 2: Type a One Line Command
The CC Cleaner Tool is a fair start but to see for yourself, open Terminal and use these commands. How to clean mac pc. Adobe leftovers still living in your system!
Summary of my results:
The One-Liner
After running the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool, open Terminal and copy paste the following command to remove all of the above listed files and folders. Administrator password and a restart are required:
I reclaimed over 9 GB after these 2 steps removing apps, files and processes. Not surprising though, Flash broke so you may want to download and reinstall that.
How To Delete Adobe Off Mac Computer
Splitting the above into 2, here is 1 line for User files only: Controller games for mac.
Another for Systems files only (admin password and restart required):
Shout out Quora and StackExchange for assists with this. How to ss on a mac.
