Of all of Adobe's products, the ugliest, most arcane, and downright weirdest has to be Acrobat. It doesn't matter which version, Acrobat has always been a collection of poorly engineered parts flying in loose formation. It's as if when it came to each successive version, Adobe posed the question to their engineers, 'How can we piss of our users a little more? How can we make their lives just a little more miserable?'
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The updater is launched by a Mac OS X system service called launchd. To launchd, Adobe Updater is a periodic job. The job file is stored under your /Library/LaunchAgents folder. The actual file name is suffixed with a number of random characters, but it starts with 'com.adobe.ARM' as the prefix. Adobe Illustrator CS6 software is the industry’s premier vector-drawing environment for creating graphics that scale across media. Capture your vision with shapes, color, effects, and typography. Experiment freely with perspective, image tracing, gradients, brushes, and strokes—all driven by the Mercury Performance System so you can make.
It appears that with their 'Adobe Genuine Software' program, a diagnostic which runs tests to determine if your software is 'genuine', they have outdone themselves. I've been running CS6 for years on my Mac and for my purposes, the suite does pretty much everything I need. Sure, I'd like some of the features that have been added to the CC edition but not enough to spend the money because the upside isn't enough to get me excited enough to reach into my pocket.
Now, all was fine in my Adobe world until a few months ago when, one day, I launched Acrobat X and up popped a persistent and annoying notice informing me in the smug, smarmy, 'f*** you, you're just a customer' manner only an arrogant behemoth like Adobe can muster, that my software (specifically AcrobatPro X and InDesign CS6) was not 'genuine.'
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What do they suggest on the Adobe website?
Right. So I should buy the software again and uninstall what I've already got and drop a dime on the reseller, all of which would be reasonable if my software was not genuine. But my software isn't fake so this message tells me something important ... that I am about to waste a lot of time resolving the issue. I particularly like Adobe's contention:
Professionals choose Adobe software since it is reliable, secure and supported by Adobe. The non-genuine software on your machine is not warranted or supported by Adobe. Your software may not work as Adobe intended, and may pose risks to you and your work.
Words almost fail me over the self-serving, arrogance of their verbiage.
I called the number given by the popup and spoke to a hapless customer service chap who introduced himself as 'Charles' (quite obviously, this was most unlikely to be his real name). After a lot of messing about and a good 30 minutes on the phone (which was in addition to the 20 minute I had to wait to speak with him), he finally concluded there was nothing wrong with my software, threw a great big switch in the bowels of Adobe (or so I like to think) and the problem magically went away. No more nagging popups!
Until this evening.
Pop! There was the popup yet again making the same complaints as before.
Again, the popup lead me to the contact page, told me that the same apps were suspect, gave me a number to call, and, well, what do you think are the chances of getting an Adobe CSR on the phone after 7PM Pacific time? Yep, zero. So now I have to waste my time tomorrow morning when I have a lot of work to get on with first thing that will require Acrobat X!
I think we can all agree software piracy is a serious issue but when a vendor puts in place what are obviously faulty piracy detection mechanisms, makes users jump through hoops to get a resolution, then repeats the same faulty assessment months later, you know, for a fact, that customer satisfaction is not what they're aiming for.
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I know that my venting, my cry of rage into the yawning corporate void, will most likely do little if anything to change the way vendors in general and Adobe in particular behave but who knows? Maybe someone from Adobe will read this and feel not just my pain but the pain of all of their users who have to run around in circles because of Adobe's incompetence and indifference. On the other hand, I'm not holding my breath.
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So recently, while using CS6, I was hit with a message from 'Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Service' that looked like the following. I have a legit copy from my company but had installed CC demos to open up Illustrator files from CC in the past, and they're legal. I'm not sure what I did to trigger this, but I found others who had been somehow dragnetted as well.
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Being busy and also currently using Pixelmator Pro with some moderate success, I opted for the nuclear option and found the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool. Surely that should clear up the annoying pop-up? I removed all of the Adobe software on my computer and decided I'd reinstall Photoshop when I needed to again... and yet the pop up persisted after I had deleted all Adobe products off my computer. The popup didn't have a close button, and clicking 'learn more' didn't remove it. I used the activity monitor and saw it was still running the Adobe Geniune task and force quit it. Hours later, it was back. This annoyed me.
As a UX developer, nothing irks me more than dark UX. The pop-up software failed to recognize I had removed the software in question, and better yet, why the hell is it still there if I removed all of my Adobe software? That felt deeply dishonest. Fortunately, I know how to
grep
and use htop
. I debated for posting this as I might be helping out some would-be pirates but I'm annoyed that someone like me was sideswiped by this.- Launch Activity Monitor from Applications -> Utilities on your Mac. View all the running processes and force quit any of the Adobe ones, especially the Adobe Genuine instances.
- Go to
~/Library/LaunchAgents
and look for thecom.adobe.GC.Invoker-1.0.plist
although the version may change after you have read this. Trash anything with the adobe. - Go to
/Library/Application Support/Adobe
and delete theAdobeGCClient
directory
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I can't say the messaging will return if I try to re-install Photoshop but at least it's stopped the damn pop up. Buy software, support your developers, but also... I might recommend supporting someone other than Adobe, like Bohemian Coding (Sketch), Affinity, and Pixelmator. Please don't email me asking for help on this topic, as I'm not in the business of assisting software pirates.