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September 13, 2026
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Search Files- works no problem. Try to select the searched for file- wont open (app or desktop).

Search Files- works no problem. Try to select the searched for file- wont open (app or desktop). Try to duplicate the searched for file- also not working (no option to duplicate). Pretty sick of spending 15-20mins every time I used Adobe Express just trying to get files to open through various options. Waste of my money for a subscription!

Pinned Reply By Rose DV

Hi ​@Kassie38380097m1v8 ​@Toby28773056j87h - can you please refresh your Express (or load it new in a browser) and try again? The team has pushed a fix that I hope will have solved this issue, but I want to check with you all to make sure you see it!

Rose

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Rose DV
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September 23, 2026

Hi ​@Kassie38380097m1v8 ​@Toby28773056j87h - can you please refresh your Express (or load it new in a browser) and try again? The team has pushed a fix that I hope will have solved this issue, but I want to check with you all to make sure you see it!

Rose

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Participant
September 13, 2026

And dont come at me with the ‘clear cache’ nonsense. I’ve done that

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Rose DV
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September 15, 2026

Hi ​@Kassie38380097m1v8 

Fair to be fed up, and noted on the cache, I won't send you in that circle. Files that show up in search but won't open when you click them is a real problem, so let's figure out where it's actually breaking.

A few things that would help, none of them the usual runaround:

  • If you open the same file directly from Home or Your Stuff (not through search), does it open normally? That tells us whether it's search-specific or the files themselves.

  • When you click a searched file and it won't open, does anything happen at all (a flash, a spinner, an error), or is it just dead? A screen recording would also be helpful here so I can see what you see!

  • Is it every file that comes up in search, or only some?

  • Are you on the web app or the desktop app, and what OS?

If the same files open fine when you go to them directly and only fail through search, that points at the search-to-open handoff specifically, which is exactly the kind of thing I can take to the team rather than have you keep poking at it.

Rose

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September 16, 2026

Hey, I’d like to second everything said above - it’s happening to all my team. It’s simply when searching for a file, if you click from the homescreen they open correctly, but of course it’s only recent files there.

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