Removed linkCreation.dotm keeps coming back (MS Word)
As discussed here on the Microsoft Forum - it;s not hard to solve the linkCreation plugin issue. However, it seems that every time I remove it, another one is created so when I open Word again after a while, it's there again and giving me startup problems. Anyone who knows how to permanently remove linkCreation.dotm?
As suggested in most answers in this thread, I found the Startup/Word folder and removed the file. However, as said, after a while the linkCreation.dotm is back and causes issues on startup. I want to find out if others have the same problem.
~/Library/Group Containers/ Content/Startup/Word/
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I tried Uninstalling and Re-installing Acrobat DC from Creative Cloud, but this didn't fix the issue for me.
Deleting "linkCreation.dotm" from the following folders:
~/Library/Group Containers/ Content/Startup/Word/ ~/Library/Group Containers/ Content/Startup/PowerPoint/ ~/Library/Group Containers/ Content/Startup/Excel/... helped ... for a little while. Then the file reappeared.
Doing a hard drive search, i found the linkCreation.dotm at this location too.
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/MACPDFM/DC/linkCreation.dotmI ended up deleting the following directory:
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/MACPDFMas well as the linkCreation.dotm file from the earlier locations too.
And so far, so good.
I noticed a day or so later (after a reboot) that a new "MACPDFM" directory appeared, but without the linkCreation.dotm file. No recurrence of the issue yet.
Hope this helps someone.
UPDATE 14 DEC 2019: Looks like the file paths may have changed in a recent update -- also check for "linkCreation.dotm" in these directories:
~/Library/Group Containers/ ~/Library/Group Containers/ ~/Library/Group Containers/ UPDATE 3 AUG 2021: Acrobat is back causing problems for me again, so am now using this command to purge the files causing it for me:
sudo find \ ~/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office \ /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/MACPDFM \ -name "linkCreation.dotm" \ -exec rm -i {} \;Command will display path to the files it finds, and prompt you to confirm to delete.
