I have creative cloud - but cant open acrobat XI pro?

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i have creative cloud - but cant open acrobat XI pro

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I had creative cloud for a year. Something in the program was corrupted, my Mac Pro uninstalled it with Apple’s Security uninstaller which obviously left out some key Adobe unimportant file but the Apple message was an  instruction to reinstall. Sounds simple enough unless you are Adobe and believe your programs are part of the NSA’s drone program both recording your personal calls but also secretly scanning your systems for illegal software. LOL 
For whatever reason the Install program for Acrobat wan’t on my system, yet the “Creative Cloud” showed that it was indeed installed and performed perfectly with a bug green checkmark. The smarter people are, the harder it is for them to understand simple problems and solutions. Its why they take those people and put them in a corner away from the world. Trying to explain that my Macbook Pro did not use the software written by the hand of god "Adobe uninstall" so trying to run it after the fact just gave me errors. Plus, no where on my system was an Acrobat Install so I'm assuming it was inadvertently deleted by the internal Mac uninstall software.  After several calls to Adobe, maybe 2.5 hrs just trying to explain what happened, and that I need to reinstall Acrobat, so turn off the flag that prevents me from installing a fresh copy. Why? because the twenty year tradition of spending 98% of their development time just trying to figure out methods to prevent licensed users from the egregious sin of trying to install another copy on a second machine, which as long as only one copy was running at a time does NOT violate the approved standard software license.
So for 7-8 of the 12 months I paid monthly subscription rates, I still do not have Adobe Acrobat and just cancelled the subscription today after they raised it by $10 more per month. I've struggled with this company for over 25 years and they have the most propeller heads of any one on the industry and are proud that only a small few can actually figure out how to use it.  I wish you luck but they provided  me three solutions the tech dreamed up for fixing my problem which underscored their complete ignorance of the MAC OS X Operating System or their own creation of the Creative Cloud that in and of itself, needs removed from every system. I cancelled, and they debited by account anyway. Someone needs to send them a gift wrapped present via email to thank them for the best years of my life.
I only use Photoshop & Lightroom 5 plus Acrobat. And I truthfully don't need them to obtain it.  The concept is a perfect use of cloud technology, until you add in the Adobe Windows Vista coding combined with their paranoia that someone will figure out a way to utilize two copies on the same license. I'm a finance guy and these are not the things that increase revenue. They just continue to piss off the customer base..
Make sure you are first installing Creative Cloud and installing and updating from that program that will always run in the background and when you want to peruse their other software, that is where you do it. It is also where they notify you of updates and of course the green check mark which is their lock from you ever being able to download another copy. if you download Acrobat into your downloads but trying to execute it will be a futile effort even though it would solve my and maybe even your issue while the Creative Cloud correctly sees that you have one licensed running copy. However, that solution almost threw him into a virtual coma. But then he reduced himself to utilize common sense and  began to apply what two hours of previous conversation explaining that there had to be a method to temporarily neutralize the cloud monitoring of your system just for five to ten minutes, just enough time to reinstall a fresh copy of Acrobat and insert the same license. After bringing up the full blown acrobat software and its running perfectly, Adobe could reactivate the interface with its web based system and the monitoring of your hard drive, specifically all your Adobe software and now the green check mark actually is correct and you are back in business. However, in Adobe land, I just articulated what was a version of Alice in Wonderland. That solution never happened and therefore i decided to cancel the subscription. Adobe will have a nuclear feature that removes you and probably the software. Then after a couple months, it may be possible to resubscribe and have the system treat you as new, thus allowing the reinstallation of any software which surely had updates or went up to a version slightly higher. However, now I think they have defeated their original marketing scheme and overpriced AGAIN which will drastically reduce their renewals which are auto yearly auto renewals where the user is supposed to receive several emails regarding the renewal date, the price change, etc. Just using my on file account and debiting my account, I can reverse that.
I wish you much more success during your year long commitment and hope that you at least receive the value of the subscription because Adobe has never been one to offer a conselation by extending your original subscription at your original rate, but we aren’t in OZ and he name wan’t Dorothy.   Best of luck!