How can I stop "AAM Update Notifier" from automatically starting?
Solution 1:
If it's not in System Preferences → Accounts → Login items, there's probably a Launch Agent set up for it.
There are two ways to deal with this problem.
1. Delete the Launch Agent entries
According to this process information, you should delete the following file(s):
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
You could also edit them:
- Where
<key>RunAtLoad</key>is<true/>, change it to<false/>.
2. Disable the update process
This article suggests to run the following command:
defaults write com.adobe.AdobeUpdater.Admin Disable.Update -bool yes
You should maybe log out and log in again.
Solution 2:
Adobe's website has instructions for turning off AAM (for Creative Suite 5 "CS5") that are different than the techniques described above. Adobe's technique involves putting a small text file with some given text at special places.
For computer-wide blocking, put the text at
[startup disk]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AAMUpdaterInventory/1.0/AdobeUpdaterAdminPrefs.dat
Or for user-account blocking, put the text at
/Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AAMUpdater/1.0/AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat
See the adobe page (linked above) for the text that goes in the file: it differs depending whether you're doing this before or after installing CS5.