What to remove after trial verison of Adobe products are expired?

[hajime]

Hello. I tried Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop CS5.x on the Mac. The trial has ended. Would you please tell me which folders can be deleted? I found the following in the Application folder:

Adobe
Adobe Bridge CS5
Adobe Bridge CS5.1
Adobe Connect Add-in
Adobe Device Central CS5
Adobe Device Central CS5.5
Adobe Download Assistant
Adobe Extension Manager CS5
Adobe Extension Manager CS5.5
Adobe Media Player
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
Adobe Reader (I need this)
Akamai

Maybe there are more but I don't know. Thanks.

 

[andyboutte]

here are some other locations that Adobe stores files. not complete but a start:

/Applications/Adobe? (everything with Adobe)
/Library/Application Support/Adobe
/Library/Application Support/FLEXnet Publisher /Library/Preferences/FLEXnet Publisher /Library/Preferences/com.adobe... (everything with com.adobe) ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat ~/Library/Preferences/Acrobat
~/Library/Preferences/Acrobat Distiller Prefs ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe... (everything with Adobe) ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe... (everything with com.adobe)

 

[hajime]

here are some other locations that Adobe stores files. not complete but a start:

/Applications/Adobe? (everything with Adobe)
/Library/Application Support/Adobe
/Library/Application Support/FLEXnet Publisher /Library/Preferences/FLEXnet Publisher /Library/Preferences/com.adobe... (everything with com.adobe) ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat ~/Library/Preferences/Acrobat
~/Library/Preferences/Acrobat Distiller Prefs ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe... (everything with Adobe) ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe... (everything with com.adobe)

Thanks for pointing this out. It looks like Adobe does not provide an uninstaller
I should somehow remove all adobe related stuff and then reinstall Reader.

 

[Apple OC]

I think you can download uninstall programs from Adobe

 

[andyboutte]

You should have an uninstaller in your /Applications/Utilities folder.

 

[hajime]

You should have an uninstaller in your /Applications/Utilities folder.

Thanks. Under Utilities/Adobe Installers, I found uninstallers for Illustrator and Photoshop. Under Utilities, there is an Adobe AIR Uninstaller. After I used these uninstallers, I still have the following in my Application folder:

Adobe
Adobe Connect Add-in
Adobe Download Assistant
Adobe Media Player
Adobe Reader (I need this)
Akamai

In the Utilities folder, I have:

Adobe Flash Player Install Manager
Adobe Installers (empty folder)
Adobe Utilities (folder)

 

[andyboutte]

take a look at this:

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html