CC update is REALLY confusing and problem filled... need advice please

I have 2 macs. On one, I just clicked on the update all in the CC desktop notification...what a mistake that was! LR would not work at all and PS installed a new version and (I think) updated my old version. But the new version does not have all my plugins working with it - it asked me if I wanted to migrate something (presets or something) and I said yes, but that did not seem to work either.
My question are:
1- do I really want to update Photoshop CC AND Photoshop cc 2014???
2- is there no way to just update the existing version so all the plugins work without an hour or so of figuring out how to reinstall them???
The LR problem I finally solved by downloading 5.5 manually and manually installing over the bad CC desktop install.
whew... what a bungle from Adobe...they are so proud of their new glitzy Web site and new apps and can't even update existing ones with out disaster... I've turned off auto download forever !!!
thanks for the help and for letting me vent ... so much anxiety and wasted time...
cheers,
tom

The main cause of slow system is due to certain heavy applications running in the background
We agree on that.
or because of duplicate and hidden files.
Files visible, hidden, the same as other files, do not do anything, unless they happen to cause the disk to be completely or nearly full. Otherwise they are just 1's and 0's. They are passive (speaking as a paid file system developer).
These files can't be easily removed.
If they can't be removed, then they are essential to the proper operation of the operating system (such as /private/var/vm/swapfie(s)). And if you have huge swapfile(s), then it is an indication of running too many RAM hungry apps concurrently, or a Mac that could use more RAM.
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Hang around these forums long enough and you will see that in many cases those speed up, clean up, anti-malware apps "ARE" the "certain heavy applications running in the background" to use your own words. It has been the experience of the long time forum contributors that once these 3rd party utilities are removed, most performance issues and system panics go away.

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