Do CC files take up local space on my laptop?

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My team is currently using Adobe Creative Cloud Teams for work (design agency, 10+ employees) but we're looking into Enterprise as a future storage solution (we want to replace our exisiting server which is dying and move completely cloud based instead).

I have a question about storage - currently our Indesign files are saved locally and synced to the cloud, but these are taking up space on our laptops. Once we move our entire server to the cloud we will run out of space on our laptops (which defeats the object of cloud storage in the first place).

I assumed CC was similar to Google Drive and didn't take up space locally, but it seems that isn't the case?

Turning syncing off isn't really an option as the way we work in Indesign uses live files with live links, so downloading/packaging isn't an option.

Is there any way to stop CC syncing certain files? (like Dropbox does), or are the only options sync everything or sync nothing?

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Files saved to the Creative Cloud also have copies on each computer, so your space requirements increase, not decrease. I have to advise caution with your plan - you currently have a local server, presumably it is backed up. Many people move to the cloud and forget all about backups, but they are even more important. Copies on a local server AND the cloud is good (but backups are still essential in this case too, because mistakes are synchromized in seconds).

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