My personally owned Acrobat 11 pro gets loaded and unloaded Along with My 49.95 Creative Cloud.

There must be a way to keep these apart.  After I got my subscription to Creative cloud for $50.00 A Month I never USE MY OWN SOFTWARE ANYMORE.  When one loads, they both load and both don't work at all.They both end up fully loaded so if you think uninstall one they both come off at the same time.  Normally I know some place to start, tonight I'm baffled..It's a 50 TB Desktop machine formatting it is NOT an option,
Regards,
John C. Weum
Anchorage, Alaska

With the creative manager, you do not have to choose to install acrobat again if it already is on your system. However if it find your version outdated, it can offer you to update it, but you don't have to update it.
Acrobat itself will offer updates separately from the manager. So you can update from that if you choose to.
Acrobat will not uninstall from the manager unless you choose to.
What has be baffled is it stop working after the manager is installed. This is a bit beyond my expertise so hopefully someone else can help with that.
Have you asked in the acrobat forum if anyone else has had a similar experience?  Acrobat Installation & Update Issues

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    This is an icon button lower right on the Buddy List marked "Prefs" (AIM 5.5). This leads to the Preferences. Drop down the list until you read Live Video. Click on this. In the new window that opens click the button that says Tuning Video and Audio. Follow the instructions in the wizard that opens up. Access in AIM 5.9 for this is in the My AIM menu at the top of the Buddy list and then Options
    To Start
    You should now be able to chat to each other.
    If each of you has a camera it can be full Video , as described in the Glossary at the top.
    To start from the Mac end, select (highlight) your Buddy with one click. His camera icon should be dark. Click on the icon near his name or the one at the bottom of the Buddy List. (You do not have to start a text chat).
    To start from the PC end you need to start a text chat, then select the Video icon at the bottom of the chat window.
    If one of you has a camera and the other has a Mic then you will be able to chat One Way but have sound will be both ways.
    To start this type of chat from the Mac end you will have to go to the menu item "Buddies" and drop down to the item "Invite to One Way Video Chat"
    To start this from a PC follow the directions in the pargraph above. You may need to change the tab to the incoming Video at the back of the two to see the Video. These tabs are added when the Video chat starts and the front one normally states you do not have a camera and shows a connection to buy one.
    It is also possible to chat One Way if the other person does not have a Mic: replies will have to be typed in a Text chat.
    No Camera and No Mic will cause iChat to End the chat with "No Data Received for 10 Secs"
    Summary
    For any sort of sound to a PC using AIM, (Talk in PC or Audio in iChat) the Mac will need a camera. The other person can have a Mic and then live chats with sound both ways and Pictures (Video) the other.
    NOTE: At This Time It Is NOT Possible to Audio (sound only) between Mac & PC with AIM & iChat
    Trillian Basic can Audio. Trillian Pro can Video and has a bigger picture and can do Full Screen.
    Another explanation of the set up can be found Here about AIM 5.5 but is transferable.
    And Also here
    My Web Pages particularly all of Page 12: What if your Girlfriend Lives a Long Way Away ? have more information.
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    9:19 PM Friday; December 12, 2008

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