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April 8, 2014
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Wrong Email address to log into Creative Cloud Desktop, How do i switch to my email address?

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Wrong Email address to log into Creative Cloud Desktop, How do i switch to my email address?

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Correct answer Arnaud_Mélon

Hi Hendy20,

If you are not able to proceed to the sign out step trough the Creative Cloud Desktop Manager, please follow the steps below then :

Delete the OPM.db file :

  1. Close the Creative Cloud application.
  2. Navigate to the OOBE folder.
    Mac OS: /Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE

  3. Delete the opm.db file.
  4. Launch Creative Cloud.

If you are not able to find that file, please check the following link, that may be because your library is hidden.

http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/access-hidden-user-library-files.html

Please, let us know how it goes.

Thank you.

Arnaud.

40 replies

Participant
September 11, 2016

i'm on a pc. can you please tell me how to do it on a pc? iit wold really help! thanks!

Participant
May 24, 2016

try go offline and then go to preference to log out. worked for me.

Participant
October 9, 2015

I signed up for Adobe with the wrong email address and was plagued for days because the Creative Cloud wanted me to confirm an email address that didn't exist! I wasn't able to change my email sign in, so here's what I did:

Followed the directions above to delete the OPM.db file (however my trash wouldn't delete the file because it said it was "in use") so I had to search for the Creative Cloud Uninstaller and uninstalled Adobe from my computer. After this I returned to my trash and deleted the OPM.db file, then I returned to the webpage log in and when I began downloading my App it allowed me to reenter my new email address.

Let me tell you, I can't believe this was such a complicated process... but being that I don't know computers that well I didn't know that MAC hides folders so users don't accidentally delete things. As far a Adobe goes I think when they have you sign up they should confirm your email address so you don't accidentally add a character and have to deal with this issue.

Participant
September 27, 2015

How to do it on Windows x64?? plsae answer

Rajashree Bhattacharya
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 26, 2015

There are hidden folders : you can follow this to find the hidden folder : Show hidden files - Windows Help

Regards

Rajashree

Jonathan Pires
Participant
September 16, 2015

And what about for windows users?

Participant
August 28, 2015

Hey guys, this has been bothering me for several days and after checking so many posts to finally find a solution!

Use the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems

I guess the only way is to download the creative cloud cleaner and i just tried and it worked perfectly!

Good luck!

Participant
July 25, 2017

Just works! Thank you very much!

mcloveblocks
Participant
August 20, 2015

Hey! When I Try To It Says In Use Cant Delete

Participant
August 4, 2015

Ive tried unistalling. Ive tried looking for OOBE. Ive tried chat help. Ive tried clicking in the settings button. nothing works. Please help

Participant
January 11, 2017

C:\Users\[yourusername]\AppData\Local\Adobe\

Delete the OOBE Folder

If you don't see the AppData folder press windows key and r. then enter %localappdata%

delapaz42
Participant
June 8, 2015

Hi,

I have a similar problem, but slightly different. I created an account accidentally with a wrong email address a while ago, and never purchased the products. Now that I created a new account and acquired the adobe suite, everytime I open de Creative Cloud Application it automatically tries to log in with the previous account! I can't find a "log in with a new user" option.

Anyone can help?


Thanks

Santiago

Rajashree Bhattacharya
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 9, 2015

Have you tried to sign out & sign back in from the preferences.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/sign-in-out-activate-apps.html

Regards

Rajshree

Participant
May 6, 2015

So I had the same issue, autocorrect changed the first letter in my signup email - but I never noticed until I was locked out with the "verify email screen", both desktop and browser. None of the suggestions here fixed the issue, but what finally did was doing all of the following: canceling the wrongly entered account - registering the new correct account - close the creative cloud desktop app (of course) - signing in at adobe.com - goto accounts - download something you had not downloaded with the incorrect account - that automatically caused the old account to be logged out of the creative cloud desktop app and now asked me to login (presumably because the old account no longer had cloud privileges) - done.