“/Applications/Adobe Bridge CS6/Plug-Ins”.“/Applications/Adobe Audition CS6/Uninstall Adobe Audition CS6”.“/Applications/Adobe Audition CS6/Legal”.“/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Uninstall Adobe After Effects CS6”.“/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Scripts”.“/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Presets”.“/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Plug-ins”.“/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/Legal”.“/Applications/Adobe After Effects CS6/aerender”.“/Applications/Adobe Acrobat X Pro/Acrobat X Uninstaller”.The end result was a bash script just shy of 150 lines (with some comments) to complete the task that hides the following items from the GUI: Instead, I made use of the ‘chflags hidden’ command and flag to hide the items from the GUI and to clean up the applications folder somewhat. I didn’t want to just gut these as they might be needed later on, for example to troubleshoot an issue.
One of our customers wanted Adobe CS6 Master Collection deployed out, but didn’t like all the ‘gubbins’ that got installed too, like the uninstaller shortcuts and the pre-sets folders. This is another of those, ‘a customer asked for a solution and a I wrote a script that I want to share’ posts.
