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August 27, 2020
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Find Cloud documents locally?

  • August 27, 2020
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Hi! 

 

How can I find Cloud Documents locally? (not Document Clouds, I mean the files created in for eg Photoshop on iPad that I open on my desktop too). I know they are automatically saved to the cloud, but I can make them offline, so they should appear somewhere locally? I need to batch download my cloud documents to make a backup on a harddrive, but there doesnt seem to be any solution...

 

Thanks in advance

Peter

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CypherPoet
Known Participant
September 21, 2021

I came across this thread after having the same concern -- the more I use Cloud Documents for... just about everything 😛.

 

While this feature does work at the file level, I tend to organize my files by making heavy use of folders -- and it would be  immensely useful if there was a way to select all folders and perform the export. There should be a way have the downloaded content's folder structure mirror the folder structure represented in the cloud.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 21, 2021

My computer hard drive is where I save files & folders first & foremost.  I do this because my HD is backed-up nightly to a dedicated cloud backup & recovery service called Backblaze. 

 

Everything in my computer's Creative Cloud Files folder automatically syncs to Adobe's Cloud storage with sub-folder structure intact. 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Adobe Employee
August 29, 2020

Hi Peter, sorry you're having difficulties. Cloud Documents don't have a location on the local machine, they're in the cloud! However, if you need to export a local copy, you can do so from the Creative Cloud Desktop app. Go to Your Work > Cloud Documents, select the files you want to export and click "Export a Local Copy" (see screenshot). Please note that this is a copy of the document, so if you make any changes to the cloud document (on your iPad or desktop), the downloaded copy will not have those changes.

 

Let me know if you have any questions !

 

-Noel at Adobe

Participating Frequently
August 30, 2020

Thank you so much Noel! I'll mark this as the correct answer 

 

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2020

Are you saving work to your Creative Cloud Files folder on your primary hard drive drive? 

Files in that folder are auto synced to the cloud.  So you should not need to download anything.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/file-storage-quota.html

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Participating Frequently
August 27, 2020

No I am using the new "Cloud Documents" in Photoshop which syncs the files between all desktop and mobile devices, it came with the new Photoshop for iPad Pro. I can open them in Photoshop on the desktop too under "Cloud Documents" tab in the Photoshop home screen. Problem is I can't find where they download locally, and Adobe doesn't allow batch download of files online...

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2020
Online storage is in the following locations.

Creative Cloud

https://assets.adobe.com

Lightroom

https://lightroom.adobe.com

Document Cloud

https://documentcloud.adobe.com

Adobe Spark

https://spark.adobe.com

 

Sorry, I don't know where Photoshop iPad stores files.

Ask in the Photoshop forum.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert