Adobe Community: How to disable AdobeResourceSynchronizer?

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40. bvoisin,

Sep 10, 2011 10:23 AM in reply to xg95

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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.

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41. bvoisin,

Sep 10, 2011 10:27 AM in reply to Tom in London

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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.

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42. xg95,

Sep 10, 2011 10:28 AM in reply to Jong C

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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.

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43. xg95,

Sep 10, 2011 10:36 AM in reply to bvoisin

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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".

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44. Tom in London,

Sep 10, 2011 11:26 AM in reply to xg95

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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?

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45. CGStom,

Dec 13, 2011 1:45 PM in reply to 1157pm

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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.

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46. funn1bunn1,

Aug 2, 2012 12:59 AM in reply to bvoisin

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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.

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