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Selectively sync files for Creative Cloud, not all the cloud

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
July 27, 2021
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I found this topic from 2014 and some others but couldn't find something more recent about this. People have been asking for this, for years!

How can I just sync some folders and not all of the stuff, filling the MacBook hard drive? We are a team of two working remotely, so we need CC to collaborate and have always the latest versions so we can work on them seamlessly.

We have 1 TB of space in our license, but our Macbooks have only 250 GB and 500 GB space. We need to sync 2021 files to our macbooks, and not everything we store in CC inside https://assets.adobe.com/files.

How is it possible that Dropbox has had this feature for years, and also OneDrive and other cloud apps? Does Adobe not know that there are plenty of people with 128 GB, 250 GB and 1 TB disks that need to sync their files to a Cloud and can't? I'm I supposed to drag an external drive to achieve this?

How can we send this query to Adobe and get them to do something more than "Oh, it's interesting, we can maybe look at it" and then forget for years and block the topic?

Please, Adobe, you can do better and we're all rooting for remote working now, we need this!

Thanks

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Carola_BHGAuthor

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More than a year later I can't believe I'm still requesting this sh… to be fixed.

Everybody voted in the uservoice site for nothing. On the backlog since 2017, aging like a good wine. But it's not good.

https://creativecloudassets.uservoice.com/forums/905290-request-features/suggestions/31653889-selective-sync

IT IS THE MOST VOTED IDEA IN THE CC ASSETS WEBSITE AND LIBRARIES SITE!!

Carola_BHGAuthor

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Oh, they changed the site so you cannot see which are the most voted ideas, great tactic 😄 But there it is, waiting since 2017, probably still the most voted idea in its category. For reference:

kglad

Community Expert

there are so many things about cc storage that users want changed, i would be hard pressed to guess what's most wanted.

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carlc94933664

Participant

This has been an issue for me as well. I have multiple client folders, a few of which I have not worked with for a year or so. Still I cannot remove their folders from my harddrive without deleting them on clound. This is taking up an extreme amount of my harddrive storage. If other cloud services can do it why doesn't Adobe, I would assume there is either a data monitoring or profit based rationale behind it all.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

If space is an issue on your primary drive, get an external drive for your Creative Cloud Files folder to reside on.

$60 on Amazon will get you a good 2 TB external.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Carola_BHGAuthor

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Yeah, I'm dragging an external USB thanks to this, and you can't imagine how inconvenient is this. And luckily my MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports or I would be very limited.

This lack of features for a paid inline space is a pain. Period!

Carola_BHGAuthor

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After some more time, I find myself in the same situation again, but worse since my colleague has 500 TB and for the moment he has space, but my new laptop has just 250 GB disk space and for the life of me I can't understand HOW CAN'T I JUST SYNC SOME FILES from Creative Cloud and not all of them?

One Drive, MEGA, Dropbox, everyone does this but not Adobe. We will have to move everything to a Cloud service when we have one in our subscription?

Abambo

Community Expert

There is no way to selectively sync files. The way Adobe programs like InDesign or Premier Pro work, this would be difficult to manage or result in very unresponsive programs.

I'm sorry for your situation, but buying a laptop today with only 250 Gb is not a good idea for Adobe related programs' work, as files tend to be huge. This is not a simple Word file. You can, however, set CC to store your data to a different disk. So, if you have an external drive of a Tb, that would be perfect for this task.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Carola_BHGAuthor

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Hi there, thank you for your message.

Sorry to be blunt, but it is absurd that I can achieve this using other apps like Dropbox or Microsoft Onedrive but not Adobe itself! Why can't I sync just the last month worth of files? Or the last week? What if I'm not using Premier or Indesign but just Photoshop or Adobe Rush? Sadly, the latter is not a collaborative tool, but Photoshop is.

In a remote work environment —today— this makes all the sense, and the same I'm not going to carry around a 27" screen, I'm either not dragging external drives around if I can sync just the files I need. Why must I now depend on a drive because Adobe can't do what others do? Sorry for the vent, but this is too frustrating and many users think the same, if you perform a search about this it's been there for years.

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