MacOS – Uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) from macOS Catalina when uninstaller is 32-bit

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I've upgraded to macOS Catalina and now noticing some long unused apps that I'm purging from my system. Adobe Creative Cloud being one of them (well, many of them).

I know there is an Creative Cloud Uninstaller but it is 32-bit so won't run on Catalina. I've downloaded the most recent but after running it quits with errors (and doesn't seem to do a thing).

Is there a list of every CC file that Adobe spewed throughout my filesystem so I can delete them manually?

Best Answer

Fully removing Creative Cloud

Basically, you need to look for files in the following folders: 

 /Library/Application Support/Adobe
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe
 /Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/Preferences

However, removing CC without breaking other Adobe apps is kinda challenge...

The conservative way

If CC annoys you but you have the space for it (a couple of MB) and you are not willing risking to destroy your Adobe environment. I would recommend to simply disable it from being loaded at boot. To do so: 

sudo lauchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist

To be sure it is done, redoing the command above should return:

/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AdobeCreativeCloud.plist: Could not find specified service
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