Adobe Shenanigans
What on Earth are Adobe up to?
I found a random folder in my ~/.gitignore-boilerplates repo (created by gibo):
james@Jamess-iMac: ~/.gitignore-boilerplates on master
$ ls -ld */
drwxr-xr-x 10 james staff 320 Apr 15 00:54 .git/
drwxr-xr-x 3 james staff 96 Mar 17 15:09 .github/
drwxr-xr-x 61 james staff 1952 Mar 17 15:09 Global/
drwx------+ 3 root staff 96 Apr 15 00:39 Library/
The Library folder, created by root contains an Adobe log file:
$ ls -l Library/Logs/AdobeDownload/*
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 root staff 5184 Mar 27 01:14 Library/Logs/AdobeDownload/DLM.log
$ cat Library/Logs/AdobeDownload/DLM.log | grep extra
Going to download the file at /Users/james/.extra/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClient.zip
Unable to create directory /Users/james/.extra/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/. Error is 512 and error domain is NSCocoaErrorDomain.
The file “.extra” couldn’t be saved in the folder “james”.
failed to create a dir - /Users/james/.extra/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/ on local disk.
Eh? .extra? I already have a file named that in that location, hence the error. What’s it up to?
I found another log file here /Users/james/Library/Logs/AdobeDownload/DLM.log
| *******************start of Download****************
| GDE Version is 9.0.0.4 (BuildVersion: 6.0; BuildDate: Wed Mar 04 2015 21:34:10 )
| The file to be downloaded is http://agsupdate.adobe.com/osx/AGC_4_5_0_814_osx10_cef.zip
| Going to download the file at /Users/james/Library/Application Support/ImageOptim/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClient.zip
| Preference: Client has set the preference for single stream download
| **File download complete.**
| *******************End****************
Eh? .../ImageOptim/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClient.zip
So I went searching:
find / -name AdobeGCClient -print 2>/dev/null
find ~ -name AdobeGCClient -print 2>/dev/null
After a bit of awk and uniq, I found:
/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClient.app
/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClientNew.app
/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/temp
/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Application Manager/AdobeGCClient
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClient.app
/Library/QuickTime/DVCPROHDCodec.component/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClient.app
/Library/QuickTime/DVCPROHDCodec.component/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClientNew.app
/Users/james/Library/Application Support/Bartender/Adobe
/Users/james/Library/Application Support/Dropbox/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClient.app
/Users/james/Library/Application Support/Dropbox/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClientNew.app
/Users/james/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/kbmfpngjjgdllneeigpgjifpgocmfgmb/Adobe/AdobeGCClient
/Users/james/Library/Application Support/ImageOptim/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClient.app
/Users/james/Library/Application Support/ImageOptim/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClientNew.app
/Users/james/Library/Application Support/Quick Look/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClient.app
/Users/james/Library/Application Support/Quick Look/Adobe/AdobeGCClient/AdobeGCClientNew.app
Adobe apps and files in random places. They all look like this:
I’ve deleted them all for now, no one else seems to have reported this when I search on Google.