Creative Cloud 2018

[Melanie Wendelberger]

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On my laptop I only want to sync specific folders or files with Creative Cloud. On my Desktop I want to sync all the files between both devices. Dropbox has a feature that allows you to select which cloud files to sync per device, can I accomplish this with CC?

Unfortunately, no. The file syncing is currently an all or nothing option. But it sounds like a great feature request to have that added. Could you post some documentation from Dropbox on how this is controlled by the user?

I second this request as I only have a 250gb SSD on my laptop so syncing all my creative cloud files (70gb+) just takes up too much space although on my iMac (1TB) it's no problem. Here is how it's handled in Dropbox:

I also need this functionality. To be honest I was just about to buy in to the Creative Cloud as I thought this would be a basic feature, v surprised that it isn't. This is a deal-breaker for me. I too have a PC with lots of space but my SSD ultrabook does not. I need to be able to work on the ultrabook but only in selected folders. This surely must affect lots of others too.

Greetings, I'm not sure so better safe than sorry. Sometimes I Download Credit Card Statements (and the like) on my Windows Laptop, other times when using my Android Phone. Do they both ways automatically upload to the same exact Cloud or after uploading to Adobe's Cloud do I have to somehow Sync the two (PC & Phone)? Thanks, Barry

Quite embarrassing for Adobe to ask her community to put in a feature request in 2022 when in 2016 it was already long overdue. So please do not ask us to put in feature request for a no-brainer and "every other cloud service" feature. Get your bosses embarrassed. Hi Everyone,

I am so sorry for all the frustration this has caused to all of you. Due to changing priorities, this feature request got overlooked for quite some time now. This feature now has found it's way in ToDo list. The engineering team will start looking into it very soon.

This link is broken - we're still awaiting the HUGE need for this feature to be met. What is the point of having cloud storage if you cannot choose to keep things on the cloud. OneDrive, Dropbox and many others allow selective file synchronisation - because you don't need to sync all files all the time and we need to keep harddrives light and save the planet.

Furthermore, your CC software often bugs out (quite often after an update) and then wants to re-synchronise the entire freaking load of files! This has happened to me probably 10 times now - sometimes I've ended up with two Creative Cloud folders alongside each other - what a bloody waste of time, energy, blah blah blah. You'd think Adobe would have more noggin.

Come on Adobe, this one is a no-brainer. Or is that a question?

This is insane. I was thinking about getting the 2 TB plan, but my SSD is 256 GB. I wouldn't be able to use even 10% of the cloud storage. It kinda defeats the whole purpose of having stuff in the cloud.

With Google Drive and OneDrive, I can right-click on files and folders and select whether I want to keep them locally or only in the cloud, and the icon changes accordingly. That doesn't seem like it would take years of development, but this thread is almost a decade old!

Creative Cloud is missing a core, essential feature every other cloud service has had for years at this point. The only reason they're able to get away with it is because users are locked in to paying for it as part of the bundle that lets them access the actual Creative Cloud apps. So, Adobe has little incentive to ship a fully functional, up-to-date file sync system.

@kglad, I get that you're a "community expert" (whatever that means), but chiming in to tell people they're using the software wrong is just unhelpful. Creative Cloud file sync service is crap and that's that.

I said we are locked into PAYING FOR IT. Which we are, if we need to use Creative Cloud apps. And your answer is "pay for another service that works"? Again, just recuse yourself here, mate. You're contributing nothing.

Incorrectly, though. This purports to be a service you can use to keep your projects synchronized between computers, but it lacks a core feature that all comparable cloud syncing services offer. It's not about "saving space," it's about providing a way for users to sync a subset of the folders they own/share in Creative Cloud. My team finally just stopped using Creative Cloud folder sync because it is unusable for anyone without a 1TB drive in their computer. Looking at the decade-old requests here for selective sync, it's very clear Adobe has no interest in developing this tool.

There is no time limit to keeping files in Archived. But remember, while they are in archived, they are still taking up cloud storage space. The same way the files in the Recycle Bin/Trash still take up hard drive space.

Thanks for the reply brett, and for pointing out that the files still take up cloud space. For Me the whole point is being able to keep my files safe and accessible in the cloud while freeing up space on my device.

Our studio team would definitely like to be able to selectively synchronize subfolder and individual files, since our organization is attempting to move everyone off traditional servers and over to cloud based sharing (which means horrid Sharepoint for MSOffice users, but hopeless for the creative teams).

If it helps anyone I use CC file storage for "Live" jobs and then once they're completed I move them to an archive using a different cloud storage that can selectively sync (copy.com). That way all the live jobs benefit from Creative Cloud features but I don't need to sync all of the archived jobs to my laptop that doesn't have the hard drive capacity to store them. However, if I need to access an archived job I can simply download it from the copy.com web interface.

Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of applications and services from Adobe that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, along with a set of mobile applications and also some optional cloud services. In Creative Cloud, a monthly or annual subscription service is delivered over the Internet.[2][3] Software from Creative Cloud is downloaded from the Internet, installed directly on a local computer and used as long as the subscription remains valid. Online updates and multiple languages are included in the CC subscription. Creative Cloud was initially hosted on Amazon Web Services, but a new agreement with Microsoft has the software, beginning with the 2017 version, hosted on Microsoft Azure.[4]

Adobe first announced the Creative Cloud in October 2011. Another version of Adobe Creative Suite was released the following year.[6] On May 6, 2013, Adobe announced that they would not release new versions of the Creative Suite and that future versions of its software would be available only through the Creative Cloud.[7][8][9] The first new versions made only for the Creative Cloud were released on June 17, 2013.

The Adobe Creative Cloud retains many of the features of Adobe Creative Suite and introduces new features;[10] foremost is the instant availability of upgrades, saving to the cloud, and easier sharing. In June 2014, the company announced 14 new versions of the Creative Cloud essential desktop tools, four new mobile apps, and the availability of creative hardware for enterprise, education and photography customers.[11][12][13]

The video disc authoring program Adobe Encore and the web-focused bitmap editor Adobe Fireworks were both discontinued by Adobe in 2013, but were still available as downloads via Creative Cloud until May 2019.

The change from perpetual licenses to a subscription model was met with significant criticism.[19][20] Although Adobe's cloud-based model caused disagreement and uncertainty,[19] and incited annoyance[21] and conflict,[22] a survey by CNET and Jefferies revealed that despite complaints most of its 1.4 million subscribers[22][23] plan to renew.[24][25]

Shifting to a software as a service model, Adobe announced more frequent feature updates to its products and the eschewing of their traditional release cycles.[26] Customers must pay a monthly subscription fee. Consequently, if subscribers cancel or stop paying, they will lose access to the software as well as the ability to open work saved in proprietary file formats.[27]

Although investors applauded the move, many customers reacted negatively.[28] This shift has been met with mixed reviews by both corporations and independent designers, with many people expressing their displeasure on the web[29][30][31] and through multiple Internet petitions.[32] Among these was a Change.org petition which reached over 30,000 signatures within a few weeks of the announcement.[33]

Creative Cloud has been criticized for broken file syncing, one of its core features.[34][35] In May 2013 Adobe announced that it was suspending the file-sync desktop preview "for the next couple of weeks".[34] Reviewers of Creative Cloud were disappointed with the functionality of the cloud storage[36][37][38] and were "far from convinced by Adobe's subscription model".[39] Some users were concerned that they would be forced to upgrade their computer hardware when it is no longer supported by the current version of the Creative Cloud software.[40]

Some of their customers experienced a loss of trust in Adobe as a company and an attendant rise in anxiety.[41][42] Despite significant customer criticism over Adobe's move to subscription-only pricing,[43] the company announced that it would not sell perpetual licenses to its software alongside the subscriptions: "We understand this is a big change, but we are so focused on the vision we shared for Creative Cloud, and we plan to focus all our new innovation on the Creative Cloud".[44]

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