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June 30, 2016
Question

Adobe Digital Editions does not sync across devices

  • June 30, 2016
  • 77 replies
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According to the product descriptions and several FAQs I found, it is an alleged feature that when I download media and open it in Digital Editions on, say, my PC, it should sync to my Digital Editions (same ID) on other devices like my tab.

I have 'auto-download' enabled. But this syncing doesn't seem to be happening. (Concrete example: I downloaded two library books to ADE on my PC with the same ID I use on my tab, but these books are not showing up on my tablet. The two books that are in my ADE library on the tab are also not showing up in the ADE library on my PC.) I also don't see any 'sync now' button or similar.

What am I missing, why is this feature not working?

77 replies

March 24, 2021

THIS IS STILL AN ISSUE IN MARCH 2021. Embarassing Customer support. The app doesn't do what it says it does, yall shouldn't expect customers if you aren't going to pay any attention to them.

Participating Frequently
March 5, 2021

This is ridiculous! Nearly FIVE years after this problem was reported and it still DOES NOT WORK! What a joke! 

Participant
February 5, 2021

I am using Adobe Digital Editions on two Apple devices (one iMac one MacBook), having both computers authorised with my Adobe ID. Technically it should be expected that all the highlights I am making while reading the books of my digital library are displayed on both devices. But it isn't so, and there is also no feature to sync manually. By and large among the digital reading apps ADE is by far the poorest in terms of general usabilty and especially in terms of syncing. I have avoided it as much as possible but sometimes acsm-format is still around. I really hope I can leave behind ADE as soon as possible but find it still embarassing that a big company like Adobe offers such a poorly thought through and poorly working tool, which obviously also nobody there seems to care about at all (issues reported here in 2016 are unresolved in 2021).

Participant
October 10, 2020

Mi último problema con adobe es que tengo un problema en el idioma español que he convertido videos de youtube al español https://convertidor.live/, pero luego no se reproduce correctamente.

Participant
October 10, 2020

Another solution:

1. C:\Users\"Your user"\Documents\My Digital Editions
2. Select your ebook *format PDF
3. Copy and paste it in your phone, tablet, or another device
4. Download it in another device tablet or phone
5.Open your file PDF in your Adobe Digital editions  (previously authorized with the same Adobe ID)

ZorkNation
Participating Frequently
October 10, 2020

That's not a solution. That's the problem.

Participant
September 7, 2020

For what it's worth, I deleted the app from my iPhone and reinstalled it immediately. I opened settings in the app and signed back in to authorize using my Adobe ID and all of my books synced to the iPhone. I don't know about future books, but for now it looks like this worked.

 

I know it's a 4 year old post and I'm sure someone else has probably posted this somewhere in the n pages of replies (I didn't read them all), but hopefully this helps someone.

Participant
July 2, 2020

Sharing the original (acsm) file with the other device worked for me!

ZorkNation
Participating Frequently
October 10, 2020

That's not a solution, that's the problem.

Participating Frequently
April 25, 2020

Hello to all, as I can see there will not be any solution, see here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/digital-editions/kb/transfer-ebook-ereader-digital-editions.html#

It says:

Only physical eReader devices can sync with Adobe Digital Editions. If you are using an eReading application (iOS or Android), contact the publisher of that application for assistance.

Participating Frequently
March 5, 2021

@brunob99 

"Only physical eReader devices can sync with Adobe Digital Editions. If you are using an eReading application (iOS or Android), contact the publisher of that application for assistance."  The publisher of the ADE app for ios is Adobe!!

Participating Frequently
April 24, 2020

April 24. 2020 - still no solution 😞

markm2669097
Participant
February 25, 2020

I just tried to sync a file from one mac to another, and realized the files are not syncing from the cloud. I needed to email myself a copy of the .ACSM file (the ereader version of a PDF) and then I dragged that file into the ADE on my other computer. And voila, it worked.