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Some may have interest in my saga of updating LR6 and PS CS6 to the Classic Photography 20 GB plan.
I do my research and in particular with this (read Victoria's book cover to cover before ever downloading anything CC) as this will be only my second subscription (Quicken was the first) and I am not fond of subscriptions. I was (am?) leary of an increased use of Memory and CPU as I keep a very clean and well oiled computer. Been doing this since 1986. Well experienced.
I started with downloading Adobe CC Desktop App. Amazingly bloated both in terms of diskspace used and the amount of temp files generated constantly. I disabled all I could "easily" and without any fear such as Sync (I never intend to sync files to the cloud), start with Windows, auto update - maybe a little more. Sync can only be PAUSED. Should be able to be DISABLED,imnsho. CC STILL starts Adobe CC Desktop Service which uses 130-150MB of RAM even though desktop has not yet run for the day, or session. It still runs core sync even though I have nothing synced nor intend to. I'd prefer those ran as needed if needed. But, with some tweaking I have it down to using an additional 4% of RAM not running than I was before the install. That's 1.28GB without anything Adobe CC running.
I next downloaded Bridge CC. Wish I had not. There is little compelling new over Bridge CS6 and while CS 6 was less than 150MB, Bridge CC is over 1.5 GB on diskspace. And has a multitude of phone homes, license checks, temp files - once again, with nothing running. Some of this is file sync foo in the background, again which I opt out of.
So, I now understand what CC Desktop and Bridge do and have it best configured as far as I can tell for my needs. I might save something turning Fonts off, but its on for now. Tomorrow will be LR and PS and will take some time to be sure that all my settings and prefs and presetss, etc are there and working as I hope they will and seeing what can be pared, if anything, to conserve resources. I am hoping that some function either from Adobe or Windows will run and purge at least some of the TEMP files and folders. Not manually deleting anything until I see what occurs "naturally". I do have CLEANMGR disabled in Windows as it creates a full DISM folder when it runs and never pruges them which requires admin rights, etc to remove manually. It does little positive to offset that hassle, so disabled it is. I doubt that would be what cleanses temps of Adobe at any rate.
What would I like to see so far?
I'll continue if any interest in what I find. No worries if not.
~Bob
I do my research and in particular with this (read Victoria's book cover to cover before ever downloading anything CC) as this will be only my second subscription (Quicken was the first) and I am not fond of subscriptions. I was (am?) leary of an increased use of Memory and CPU as I keep a very clean and well oiled computer. Been doing this since 1986. Well experienced.
I started with downloading Adobe CC Desktop App. Amazingly bloated both in terms of diskspace used and the amount of temp files generated constantly. I disabled all I could "easily" and without any fear such as Sync (I never intend to sync files to the cloud), start with Windows, auto update - maybe a little more. Sync can only be PAUSED. Should be able to be DISABLED,imnsho. CC STILL starts Adobe CC Desktop Service which uses 130-150MB of RAM even though desktop has not yet run for the day, or session. It still runs core sync even though I have nothing synced nor intend to. I'd prefer those ran as needed if needed. But, with some tweaking I have it down to using an additional 4% of RAM not running than I was before the install. That's 1.28GB without anything Adobe CC running.
I next downloaded Bridge CC. Wish I had not. There is little compelling new over Bridge CS6 and while CS 6 was less than 150MB, Bridge CC is over 1.5 GB on diskspace. And has a multitude of phone homes, license checks, temp files - once again, with nothing running. Some of this is file sync foo in the background, again which I opt out of.
So, I now understand what CC Desktop and Bridge do and have it best configured as far as I can tell for my needs. I might save something turning Fonts off, but its on for now. Tomorrow will be LR and PS and will take some time to be sure that all my settings and prefs and presetss, etc are there and working as I hope they will and seeing what can be pared, if anything, to conserve resources. I am hoping that some function either from Adobe or Windows will run and purge at least some of the TEMP files and folders. Not manually deleting anything until I see what occurs "naturally". I do have CLEANMGR disabled in Windows as it creates a full DISM folder when it runs and never pruges them which requires admin rights, etc to remove manually. It does little positive to offset that hassle, so disabled it is. I doubt that would be what cleanses temps of Adobe at any rate.
What would I like to see so far?
- Sync able to be disabled
- CC Desktop remembering its last used position (sent a request to Adobe)
- Less bloat in TEMP and a better function of keeping that tidy
- At least asking to create desktop icons aftwer something CC installed
I'll continue if any interest in what I find. No worries if not.
~Bob
