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April 7, 2015
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Creative Cloud keeps moving all of my files into the trash can

  • April 7, 2015
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Entire folders and files disappear from my Creative Cloud folder and they get moved to the trash can. Is there a reason this keeps happening? How can I prevent this from happening in the future?

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Correct answer cvanalmelo

Well- good news/bad news update. Good new is that the MAC I first reported on sync issue is fine after the support changed my permissions. But now, I am trying to sync on a Windows machine, and getting the deleting again. I guess I will report to support again and see what to do on Windows.. will keep you posted.

Adobe tech support- I hope you document the issue somewhere to help users?

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Participating Frequently
February 10, 2023

I am expericing this issue this past week and been trying to clean it up. When I try to restore the files it does some weird things like files are not what they should, files in the wrong location, I put it back in the folder and it got moved to trash again and some unrecognized files appeared and can't remove it unless done online. Some files are permanently lost and I can't find it. Need to find something that's more reliable! 

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2023

@KathCau 

 

because of file syncing, anyone with more than 1 device can have these problems with adobe's cc file system.

Participating Frequently
February 10, 2023

Do we have a solution? 

Participant
December 7, 2021

Hello, checking in to see if there's a fix for this? 

Known Participant
December 7, 2021

Try re-install CC. it worked with one of my clients.
My other client gave up and moved to Dropbox as the central server.
as far Adobe has addressed this issue. Hope you get it sorted.

Known Participant
December 7, 2021

I meant "as far as I know, adobe has NOT addressed this issue

Known Participant
September 8, 2021

im having this problem too, was this resolved? I see it occurred in 2015. I wonder if it has something to do with the new rollout of Adobes system of CC storage?

Participating Frequently
September 8, 2021

The problem was never resolved. This was, by far, the most frustrating customer service experience of my career. Adobe is the absolute worst to work with. They are a monopoly and they know it. You are totally on your own where troubleshooting anything with Adobe is concerned. It's beyond infuriating.

Known Participant
September 8, 2021

Oh dam I didn't want to hear that lol. I hope we can get it resolved. And yes totally agree with the customer service, and the monopoly. Frustrating

 

Participating Frequently
July 23, 2020

We are having the same issue on our end. I share a CC folder with another designer. Neither of us are deleting files, but this is the second time a bunch of files went missing. I'm able to find them in deleted files and restore them. But then they don't all go back where they belong and I have to reorganize them. How do we keep this from happening? So frustrating.

Participating Frequently
July 24, 2020

There is no solution. I just spent a lot of time on chat with a support rep. They cannot tell you why the files are deleted, even if you send them the CoreSync logs, so don't waste your time trying to hunt for them. We are making a companywide decision to stop using Creative Cloud. The support team was completely unhelpful and we have spent an enormous amount of production time trying to find and restore deleted files. Support also could not tell us how to prevent this from happening again. My advice? DO NOT USE CC FOR FILE SHARING! Use Dropbox or Sharefile or any service that is more reliable. We are sorely disappointed.

adam_diestel
Participant
February 15, 2018

I (and at least one other team member) have experienced this today. Rather scary, It has affected my online files too, if I had cleared my trash thinking it only contained what I've put in there, I wonder how much work I could have lost. Reaching out to our IT team maybe they can make some headway. Not cool.

Participant
April 16, 2018

I am given access to a shared folder with a group and all of a sudden the other day a huge group of files were in my trash from the shared folder that I did NOT delete. This is scary, as I have recently had some files deleted from my hard drive that I did not delete either. Not sure what's going on. Is there a solution?

Participating Frequently
November 14, 2016

Wow.. i am shocked at Adobe that this is still an issue for users! And support is still asking for users to 'send their logs', send files, etc. Come on!

Especially as I reported that when I am pretty sure this solved it for me on the MAC. But it's been a while, and even though I tested it back then, I never trusted using sync again. I worked with support on the phone to solve the MAC issues. I called backed and did the same for Windows machine, but that did not work. I also asked support to send me an email with the instructions. So users- try this, but Adobe- don't support people talk to each other and log solutions?!

FOR MAC:

1.Please click on Finder and then you will find the Go > Go to Folder in the top menu bar of your screen.

2.a. Please type ~/library (with the ~ symbol) in the Go to Folder and navigate to Application Support > Adobe(you have to give permissions for both Adobe folders)

b. Please type /Library (without the ~ symbol) in the Go to Folder and navigate to Application Support > Adobe.

3.Please right click on the Adobe folder and select Get info.

4.Please click on the Lock icon and enter the Mac password to access the Get info Window.

5.Please click on the + icon to add the users.

6.Please select Administrator, System and User names in the List one by one.

7.Now click on every users in the selected List and give Read and Write permissions.

8.Please make sure that all the users in the list are having Read and Write permissions.

9.Now click on the Gear icon at the bottom of the same window and select Apply to Enclosed Items.

10.Click on the Lock icon to close the Get info window.

FOR WINDOWS:

1.Please press Windows logo + r key together on your keyboard. It will launch the Run Window.

2.Please type in %appdata% in the run window that popped up and right click on Adobe.

3.Please right click on the Adobe folder and select Properties option.

4.Please uncheck the option Read only and select Apply.

5.Now click on Security Tab.

6.Now click on "Edit" button under security tab.

7.Select Administrator, System, Users one by one and check if the full control allow option is checked for all users( Administrator, System, Users ) under bellow square box?

8.Select "Users" , check the full control allow check box, click apply and ok.

9.Again apply and ok to close the properties window.

10.Select General Tab and uncheck read only.

11.Select Apply and Ok to close the Window.

iestynx
Inspiring
February 6, 2018

Adobe, this is still an issue with the latest 2018 release of CC. Just experienced files disappearing from an After Effects project right in front of my eyes. None of my co-workers deleted the file.

This is atrocious for a service that we pay for every month. I won't even start getting into the issue we had with Team Projects corrupting our files. Disaster.

nin_WL
Participant
September 30, 2016

Also been experiencing this problem too for 2 weeks now. I've been grabbing it out of the trash can and putting back in to my CC folder. What is happening?

Participant
September 28, 2016

This has happened to me in the last hour.

Almost all of my files in sub directories have been moved to the trash, in no particular order. In total there are 1,650 files and folders now in the trash. This is spread over 79gb of work in 10's of client separated directories.

Further investigation shows that the files are also missing from the cloud directories on assets.adobe.com

I've not deleted anything.

Please advise asap as this is potentially a catastrophic incident for my business.

Participant
September 28, 2016

For me, this problem is now in it's 4th day. I have contacted Adobe, sent them log files that they requested, and have requested a possible timeline for a fix.  I don't dare empty my trash as I fear that I would permanently lose work. I wish Adobe would advise what we should and should not do at this stage. Can we drag folder out of the trash into the CC folder?

Has anyone tried that with success.

Everyone that has this problem seems to be just waiting for Adobe to fix or at least communicate to their customers what is going on.

Yes, it is potentially catastrophic for my business to and many others.

Participant
September 28, 2016

You can drag the folder(s) out of the trash and they'll restore--BUT, if you have the same problem as I do, they'll disappear into the trash again.

I've put our entire workflow in the CC on hold for the moment as I wait for Adobe to offer a fix. My confidence in the program is shaken, no doubt.

Participant
September 27, 2016

This is happening to me almost every day as well. My shared folders and regular folders keep ending up in the trash and I'm sure no one is deleting them. Our entire workflow goes through the CC. I am using El Capitan on a MacBook Air and an iMac. Please advise.

Participant
September 27, 2016

Exactly the same here. Only one of my two shared folders gets auto-moved into trash. This is the bigger folder containing much shared work and under no circumstances should be put at risk. I work on OSX 10.11.6 and those I share the vanishing folder with are Windows users (unsure of version). This has happened twice in four days, I see the message pop up in the top right of my screen stating 'xxxxxfolder has been removed'. The first time I had no idea where it had gone and checked with the co-sharers (different company) to see if they'd removed it for some reason. Obviously they hadn't and the Adobe support chap worked remotely and located the files in trash. Yesterday when it happened again I looked in trash and sure enough everything's there. I've sent to the log files to the SyncForum address above but wanted to highlight the issue here as clearly it remains a major issue for many users and is getting in the way of daily business on a large scale; not what we signed up for.