How do I remove or disable AdobeIPCBroker?
A new unstable resource-draining Adobe process that has recently appeared on my Mac is proving more difficult to hunt down and kill than the numerous other processes that Adobe creates. Generally following instructions here and elsewhere to disable the launching of these processes has worked, but I can't seem to figure out how to disable the latest: AdobeIPCBroker.
I've found instructions for Windows, but none for OS X.
How do I get rid of and permanently disable AdobeIPCBroker on OS X?
Solution 1:
This is what I had to do:
- Kill Core Sync.
- Kill CCLibrary.
- Kill CCXProcess.
- Kill AdobeIPCBroker.
I don't know if they'll come back the next time I reboot, but in an attempt to prevent that I also disabled the "Launch Agents" in com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist and com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist.
(Who in Adobe thought it was a good idea to spend CPU and battery life constantly just to check for updates or things to 'sync'? That's like kids going around trick or treating all year just to be sure they don't miss Halloween. There are smarter ways to schedule things.)
Solution 2:
this is a terminal alias/command I use that prevents any Adobe stuff running in the background:
alias nothankyouadobe="sudo -H killall ACCFinderSync \"Core Sync\" AdobeCRDaemon \"Adobe Creative\" AdobeIPCBroker node \"Adobe Desktop Service\" \"Adobe Crash Reporter\";sudo -H rm -rf \"/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist\" \"/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist\" \"/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.*.plist\""
If you put that in your ~/.bash_profile you can then simply type nothankyouadobe or call that from Alfred or any other sort of script.
Solution 3:
It's created by Core Sync which is /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/CoreSync/Core Sync.app. When I killed both Core Sync and AdobeIPCBroker, they didn't come back (for that session, anyway).
FWIW, I found out what caused it to be created by using launchctl procinfo.