Battery Drain Found - Up Yours Adobe

[raythompsontn]

The battery on my M2 Air began draining faster than normal. Just web browsing, mail, checking some websites and the battery was drained in 6 hours. That is not normal from my past experience.

The problem was isolated to Adobe Cloud. There is a process running called "Adobe Creative Cloud Sync" and it sucks down the battery. It is constantly running and doing something in the background. Using the Activity Monitor for energy consumption and the Adobe process was found to be consuming well over 50% of the power that had been used.

I found a couple of places on the Web that explained how to stop this process from running. That seems to have worked as the next day I got over 10 hours of battery life.

Adobe is notorious for taking what it can, not notifying the user, and otherwise doing things to computers by assuming the Adobe is going to be the only thing used on the computer. In short, the Adobe programmers, management, whatever, are jerks.

 

[Bazza1]

Past issues with Adobe on a selection of OSs (including leaving a lot of gunge behind - buried - even after an app is 'fully' uninstalled), to the point where I don't install any Adobe product anymore. Found alternative apps - often cheaper or free - that work for what I need. Though I appreciate 'requirements will vary', depending on user.

 

[Bigwaff]

In short, the Adobe programmers, management, whatever, are jerks.

Dunno if I would generalize the hard working people at Adobe are jerks. More likely some are incompetent at software development and testing.

 

[raythompsontn]

More likely some are incompetent at software development and testing.

The decisions made by Adobe, management, programmers, etc. are intentional. The intent is to take over the system without regard to other applications. The stuff that Adobe does is intentional and nefarious. Incompetence would result in applications that don’t work and crash. Consuming massive resources is intentional. Jerks may not be the correct term but I really want to use would get moderated quickly.

My original post is more of a warning to others as others have questioned resources needed to run Adobe apps. Knowing about a real resource hog may be useful information. Rather than questioning why a particular MAC is not adequate, look for Adobe siphoning more than reasonable resources.

 

[Pakaku]

I'm sure Adobe's goals are to specifically burn out their users's computers...

 

[Bigwaff]

I guess haters gonna hate ...