An Internet connection is required the first time you install and license your apps. But, you can use the apps in offline mode with a valid software license. The desktop apps attempt to validate your software licenses every 30 days.
The apps are installed and run on your desktop, just like any other desktop application. The first time you download any individual creative apps, you automatically download Creative Cloud for your desktop. You use the Creative Cloud desktop app to access, download, and update any individual creative apps.
Adobe Content Synchronizer is the underlying technology in Creative Cloud that intelligently syncs your assets, fonts, photos, settings, Adobe Stock assets, and more. These items instantly appear in your workflow wherever you need them and in the right format. With Adobe Content Synchronizer, available exclusively in Creative Cloud, everything you need is always at your fingertips as you move from app to app or device to desktop.
Also, Creative Cloud sharing features let you share files with anyone by letting them view files in a browser. Viewers can turn layers on and off, see relevant metadata, comment, and even download files for editing.
Yes. Your existing Creative Suite product installation is not affected by installing the Creative Cloud product applications. For example, you can install and use the perpetually licensed Photoshop CS6 on the same computer as Photoshop.
You continue to have access to Creative Cloud member free benefits. And, if you saved your work to your computer, you continue to have access to those files on your own device. You no longer have access to the Creative Cloud apps or most of the services that are components of a Creative Cloud membership.
Yes. You can download and install Creative Cloud apps on multiple computers, regardless of the operating system. However, activation is limited to two machines per individual associated with the membership, and you may not use the software on these devices simultaneously.
With Creative Cloud, you have the option of sharing information with Adobe about how you use the Creative Cloud desktop apps. This information lets us give you a more personalized experience and helps us improve the quality and features of products. This option is turned on by default, and the information is associated with your Creative Cloud account. You can change your preference at any time on your account page.
This setting applies to how you use the features within desktop apps, not to the services these desktop apps use, such as Behance. These services are governed by their respective privacy policies and/or the Adobe Privacy Policy.
If administrators install applications via Creative Cloud Packager using Enterprise IDs, the ability to share information with Adobe about using Creative Cloud apps is disabled for the members of Creative Cloud for teams, Creative Cloud for enterprise, and Creative Cloud for education. Admins cannot enable it.
However, if administrators let users install Creative Cloud applications via the Creative Cloud for desktop app using an Adobe account, users can share information about how they use the applications. Users can change these preferences at any time by visiting their account page.
The Creative Cloud website is available in English, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Individual desktop apps and services may not be available in all these languages.
Many of the Creative Cloud apps let you export files to the Creative Suite 6 version of that same application. Adobe plans to continue to support the ability to export to CS6 in the applications that already have that capability. New features added to the desktop applications after CS6 may not be supported in the exported file, or by the CS6 application.
Applications not listed here may not support exporting to Creative Suite 6, and may not do so in future releases. New features added to the above list after CS6 may not be supported in the exported file or by the CS6 application.
Yes. Flash Professional CC is now Animate and is still available in Creative Cloud. Flash Professional was renamed Animate, because it offers first-class support for publishing animations in HTML5 and other platforms in addition to Flash and AIR.
Past releases of Flash Professional dating back to CS6 remain available for Creative Cloud members. You can find them under Previous Versions in the Creative Cloud desktop app.
Your Creative Cloud files are stored on your desktop and the Creative Cloud servers. If you cancel or downgrade your paid membership, you still have access to all the files in the Creative Cloud folder on your computer and via the Creative Cloud website.
A free Creative Cloud membership gives you access to file syncing and sharing features and 2 GB of storage space. You also get some free services and access to free trials of the Creative Cloud apps.
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.
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