Still problems with apdproxy.exe and Dreamweaver
Yesterday I lost about half an hour of my work time, thanks to Adobe. As I have stated before, I am a great fan of Adobe. I love the functionality of their software - Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, and so on. All excellent software.
But all is not well in my relationship to Adobe. A little program that comes with the Adobe software, apdproxy.exe, is really annoying. When I boot up my machine (a new Dell XPS with 2 Gb RAM, running Windows XP), this little program sometimes makes my machine grind to a halt. When this happens, and I eventually get into the Windows task manager (this takes a while because all CPU is taken up by this annoying program), I most often can observe that apdproxy.exe is eating between 95% and 99% of my CPU. Then it is a matter of closing it down. With this done, my PC comes alive again.
Also, I frequently experience Dreamweaver crashes when I am working on my Web sites. In the middle of editing something, often simple copy and paste operations, Dreamweaver simply freezes. Sometimes it recovers, sometimes not.
I wonder why Adobe doesn’t do anything with these problems. They are well known. I am not the only blogger who has expressed dis-satisfaction.
I am getting quite grumpy over this. At this point I have started to wonder what to do? Should I discontinue using software I otherwise love? Or should I simply start sending bills to Adobe for my lost time?
– Peter
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If you use Lightroom then go to Menu > Edit > Preference > Import tab and un-tick ‘Show import dialog when memory card is detected’ .
This should stop it - you may need to edit startup files to get rid of it
If it is from another Adobe program then best trick is to rename any occurrences of the file in your system - just simply fails to load with no symptoms other than failure to detect cards automatically.
Rod