Adobe Synchronizer – ADOBECOLLABSYNC.EXE

Adobecollabsync.exe installs with the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader and with Adobe Acrobat Professional version 8.x or later. You'll find this Adobe Reader Synchronizer in your C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\ folder. By default, it will run on system startup.

The Adobe Collabsync Synchronizer runs while Acrobat or Reader runs if you participate in a Shared Review or use specific features such as the reviewing preferences panel or tracker. Collabsync is a networking agent that is used to build disconnection tolerant applications. CollabSync provides a local copy of data on a server so that applications can utilize it regardless of network connectivity. As data changes on the server, the synchronizer updates the local copy and as the user publishes changes made locally, Synchronizer makes the modifications to the server. If the client is disconnected from the network, Synchronizer will keep trying to reconnect.

You'll find more information at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/online_collaboration.pdf.

If you don't use this feature, it can be turned off under "preferences" within Adobe Acrobat or the file can be disabled using WinPatrol. If you opt to disable this file, you'll also want to remove the Collabsync cache file if found in your c:\Windows\Prefetch folder.

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