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Did you see this: http://blogs.adobe.com/barnaby.james/2006/12/the_adobe_synch_1.html

Try Applications>Adobe Reader X>Adobe Reader.app>

Right Click and Show package contents>Contents>

Did you check Tracker to see if there are any Reviews or Forms listed? In case there are any, Synchronizer must be synchronizing them, thats why you see AdobeResourceSynchronizer running in Activity Monitor. Removing all items from Tracker will automatically lead to closing of AdobeResourceSynchronizer.Can you share a screenshot of Activity Monitor where you see the high CPU usage of this process and also a screenshot of Tracker (from Acrobat X->Comment pane->Reviews->Tracker)?

Can you check Tracker to see if there are any reviews present?

Can you check the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/<version>/Collab and send me the Workflows file present here? Send at ambooATadobe.com.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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!

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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xg- is it happening to you too? Can you provide any details?

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.

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 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 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.