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July 9, 2025
Question

Help Needed – Lost Access to XD Files After Email Update

  • July 9, 2025
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Hi everyone,

One of my team members has lost access to all of his Adobe XD files following a company-mandated email update due to a Company's brand change. He was informed that his files are no longer retrievable, and it appears that all of his design work is gone.

Is there any way to recover these files or reassign access to his previous account or to a manager's account?

Any advice or support would be greatly appreciated.

2 replies

Community Manager
July 9, 2025

Hi @Shadi38770646t01u,

 

Thank you for the update. If you have already tried the steps mentioned earlier, I would recommend asking your administrator to open a support case through the Admin Console. You can refer to the following document for detailed instructions on how to open a support case:
https://adobe.ly/4lEr2Kw

If your admin has already submitted a case, please feel free to share the case number with me via a personal message. You can find guidance on how to send a personal message within the Adobe Community here:
https://adobe.ly/3U3eikQ

Please let us know if there is anything else we can assist with.

Regards,
^AN

Community Manager
July 9, 2025

Hi @Shadi38770646t01u,

 

Thank you for reaching out. Based on your query, it appears that your team member has lost access to all Adobe XD files following a company-mandated email update due to a brand change, and you would like to recover those files. Please confirm if this is the issue you need assistance with.

Adobe provides an Asset Reclamation Tool that can help in such cases. If your organization uses Adobe storage for business, it is possible to reclaim and transfer assets from the previous account to a new one or to a manager’s account.

 

To do this, please follow the steps below in the Adobe Admin Console:
Navigate to Admin Console > Storage > Inactive Users
Select the user whose email was changed

Choose “Transfer content now” and specify the new or manager’s email address

 

You can find detailed instructions in the following documentation:
https://adobe.ly/408hGyv

Please note that this action must be performed by your organization’s Adobe administrator. If you are unsure who your administrator is, you can identify and contact them using the guidance in this article:
https://adobe.ly/3Tx5KCK

Additionally, if the user still has access to the old account or can temporarily regain access, files can be manually or automatically transferred to the new account using Adobe’s migration tools. More information is available here:
https://adobe.ly/4lno0e3

We hope this information helps. Please let us know if you need any further assistance.

Regards,
^AN

Participant
July 9, 2025

Thanks very much @Anshul_Nautiyal 
I connected with the Admin and she mentioned she has done this and the user/inactive user isn’t there so the option to transfer data isn’t present. Looks like she asked Adobe to check on the backend/server side to see if they could see anything, but they couldn’t. She mentioned to me she even re-enabled the old account in hopes of the data reconnecting, but it didn't work as well. This is very important to us and we have 3 years of design data that is lost now! 
If there is anything we haven't done yet, please let me know to try. Thanks very much!