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Install adobe-creative-cloud-cleaner-tool with Homebrew Cask
Utility to clean up corrupted installations of Adobe software. Version 4.3.0.1322 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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Utility to clean up corrupted installations of Adobe software
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Project history and usage
Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool is an official recovery utility for removing obsolete Adobe software records, cleaning corrupted installations, addressing synchronization components, and repairing Adobe server-connectivity entries.
Project history
Adobe maintains the Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool as a recovery utility for Creative Cloud and older Creative Suite installations. Official guidance covers both graphical macOS operation and interactive or silent Windows workflows.
The tool’s scope has expanded beyond removing product records: current documentation also covers cleaning CoreSync components and repairing the system hosts file when Adobe server connectivity is broken.
Adoption history
Adobe positions the Cleaner Tool as an advanced troubleshooting utility, not a routine uninstaller. It is adopted primarily through Adobe support workflows after ordinary repair, update, uninstall, or reinstall steps fail.
How it is used
Users should first close Creative Cloud applications and background processes and back up relevant files and settings. Adobe recommends the tool after conventional repair or uninstall measures have failed.
On macOS, users mount the DMG, accept the license, select a cleanup category and product, and run the selected cleanup. Enterprise users can use silent-mode functionality where documented.
Cleanup can remove applications or CoreSync state and can repair hosts-file entries, so it should be treated as a recovery tool with potential data-loss implications rather than a general-purpose preferences reset.
Why package nerds care
The Homebrew cask makes an otherwise manually downloaded vendor recovery utility reproducibly discoverable and installable. It is particularly relevant to administrators and support engineers dealing with damaged state left by a large, multi-component desktop suite.
Timeline
- 2025: Adobe’s current Cleaner Tool preparation and execution guides are updated with Creative Cloud, CoreSync, and hosts-file recovery procedures.
Related projects
- Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe CoreSync and Content Synchronizer
- Adobe Log Collector Tool
Sources
- Official execution guide: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/apps/troubleshoot/diagnostics-repair-tools/run-creative-cloud-cleaner-tool.html
- Official preparation guide: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/apps/troubleshoot/diagnostics-repair-tools/prepare-to-run-creative-cloud-cleaner-tool.html
security posture
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No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for adobe-creative-cloud-cleaner-tool. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
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- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
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Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
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These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-09-19
manager version4.3.0.1322
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.htmlnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:adobe-creative-cloud-cleaner-tool |
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| Version | 4.3.0.1322 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/adobe-creative-cloud-cleaner-tool |
| Homepage | https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html |
| Upstream docs | https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html |
| Source archive | https://swupmf.adobe.com/webfeed/CleanerTool/mac/AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool.dmg |
| SHA-256 | no_check |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
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| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
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| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | adobe-creative-cloud-cleaner-tool |
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| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
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