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What is CCLibrary on Mac?

By Junaid, maker of Taskglass · Last reviewed

Syncs your Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries (colours, graphics, assets) across apps.

CCLibrary is the Creative Cloud Libraries process that keeps your saved assets (colours, character styles, graphics) in sync across Adobe apps and devices. Users sometimes report high CPU from it; updating Adobe software and checking for software that interferes with its network access are common fixes.

Category
Third-party
Made by
Adobe
Safe to quit:
Yes

Shown in Activity Monitor as CCLibrary

Why is CCLibrary using so much CPU or memory?

  • Syncing large libraries
  • Network filters, proxies or ad blockers interfering with sync
  • Bugs in older Creative Cloud versions

What to do

  1. 1Update Creative Cloud
  2. 2Temporarily pause network filter or proxy tools to compare
  3. 3Quit Creative Cloud when not using Adobe apps
  4. 4Restart your Mac

Safe to quit? Yes.

Generally safe; library syncing pauses until it restarts.

Related processes

Part of the Taskglass Process Library

See it live in Taskglass.

Taskglass shows what CCLibrary is doing on your Mac right now, explains it in plain English, and tells you if it's safe. It does the same for 213 other processes.