MacOS – Weird Mac Application Behaviour

I wouldn't reinstall an operating system because one application is misbehaving. That doesn't really make any sense. This could just be a bug in Adobe's software. If there is a way to report bugs to Adobe I'd try that, I'm sure they'll be more interested in faults in their own software than Apple will be in what is to them third-party software.

Anyway.

The first thing I'd do is make sure I had all the latest updates installed. This could be a bug that someone has already reported and Adobe have fixed. It looks like you do have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat XI though.

The second thing I'd do is I would try the application within a new account. As you use an application is creates all kind of settings, cache, etc files throughout your account. Create a new account, which will essentially be starting from scratch without these files and see if it works reliably there without crashing. If it does then the case of the crashes are something within your own account.

The third thing would be to try cleaning up after the application in your own account. So locate all the files that Adobe Acrobat has created within your account and either delete or temporarily rename them (caches under /User/USERNAME/Library/Caches/Adobe..., preferences under /User/USERNAME/Library/Preferences, perhaps other files in something like /User/USERNAME/Library/Adobe, etc). And then try the application again. You can try this a step at a time, to try to identify which is causing the problem.

If there are a serious of steps you follow that reliably cause the application to crash, please update your question and we might be able to give a more specific answer.

Quoting the relevant lines:

31  -[ACCFinderInnerExtension ACCFE_drawInteriorWithFrame:inView:] + 174 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 22262) [0x10ccc16f6]
31  -[ACCFinderInnerExtension getFullPath:] + 43 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 20080) [0x10ccc0e70]
30  -[ACCFinderInnerExtension accProfilePath] + 62 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 19828) [0x10ccc0d74]
30  -[ACCFinderInnerExtension refreshAccProfilePath] + 84 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 19433) [0x10ccc0be9]
19  getPrefs(NSArray*) + 65 (ACCFinderInnerExtesion + 11106) [0x10ccbeb62]

Did you recently install Adobe software? If so, I believe the Creative Cloud installs an "extension" to the Finder that has something to do with their Core Sync feature (not entirely sure what that is). Notice that I put the word "extension" in quotation marks, as the way Adobe achieves this is pure evil: by injecting the code into the Finder process, which can and will alter the way the Finder behaves. Like you, I found that it can bog down the Finder after a while.

I haven't found a permanent solution but this is the procedure I follow upon startup (it should last until the next restart).

1. When the Adobe Creative Cloud menu extra appears at the top right of the screen (next to volume, date, etc.), choose to quit out of Creative Cloud.

2. Open Activity Monitor, and locate the following background processes: Creative Cloud.app (if present), Adobe Desktop Service.app, Core Sync.app, and AdobeIPCBroker.app*.

3. Use Activity Monitor to quit the processes in the following order:

   1. Creative Cloud.app (if it's running)
   2. Adobe Desktop Service.app
   3. Core Sync.app
   4. AdobeIPCBroker.app

   If you don't follow that order, some of them may be relaunched automatically.

4. Then quit and relaunch the Finder.

*The full paths to these apps are /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/ACC/Creative Cloud.app, /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Desktop Common/ADS/Adobe Desktop Service.app, /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud/CoreSync/Core Sync.app, and /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Application Manager/IPC/AdobeIPCBroker.app