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addons not installing for CC 2015?

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July 16, 2015
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I've come across others with this problem.

I am using Windows 7 Pro and have Creative Cloud Desktop Manager installed and a paid up sub. to all CC2015 programs in the CC2015 suite.

I have CCDM running with sync turned on in preferences.

I go to Creative addons for plugin/extensions https://creative.adobe.com/addons/.

I choose my addon, I do everything according to the book. The addon manager tels me I have acquired the plugin/extension

NOTHING happens inside Creative Cloud, no activity stream. The downloaded plugins do not show up in the programs they are destined for!!

I went online to Adobe Help. For about 1.5 hours they could not solve the problem. It has been escalated.

Others with the same problem are reporting Adobe Help is no help on this one.

I have rebooted, exited CC, re-entered, tested number of free installs (so I don't purchase something that won't load) removed them, reinstalled them . Nothing doing anything.

anyone any ideas?

Thanks

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Correct answer rndllcprn

Fixed it by signing-out of Creative Cloud, restarting and opening Photoshop CC 2015 and signing-in from there. Add-ons installed a few seconds after.

PVC-Dave

New Participant

I am in the same boat. I have a simple plug-in, installed correctly, everything up-to-date, but it suddenly stopped working. I am no expert, just a casual user, so it is all but impossible for me to get this working. Every page of support I can find from Adobe is for pre-Creative Cloud versions of inDesign. How long have we been on CC now? They still haven't got around to updating their support? Thats downright incredible for such a large company as Adobe. Extension Managers may or may not be the cause of, or the solution to, my problem. Everything they tell me to click on, doesn't exist in CC2017. I don't know if Plug-Ins and Add-ons are the same thing, or different. I'm amazed that issues go years on the forums without any solutions from Adobe.

John B. Kalla

New Participant

Like everyone else, I'm having the same problem. Latest Lightroom CC, latest macOS Sierra, and a 2014 iMac Retina. I bought "Full Screen Diaporama" awhile back and never got it to install. I'd forgotten about it, and today I bought "Base Gallery" from redrex plugins. Even though I get the popup that says both add ons were installed, I don't see the add ons in Lightroom or the OS (~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Galleries/). What am I doing wrong? Why is there no manual download for add ons? I've tried all the troubleshooting pages (out of date) and read all the posts in this thread. I've signed in/out of Adobe cloud in Lightroom. Nothing works. I finally gave up and emailed Adobe support, which I assume won't do me any good, and the developer, which I have hopes for.

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Pixelwizz

New Participant

Hi all,

I would like to add my two cents worth.

I have had the same problem with add-ons not being installed for about twelve months. I have had email conversations with tech support who suggested I try various things and none worked so I gave up in disgust. Today on a whim, I trawled the forums again for an answer and came up with the fact that extension manager had to be removed, which I had previously trashed (I'm on a MacBookPro with latest CC Desktop App) and did a search in my Applications folder for any hidden traces of extension manager. Long story made short, I found hidden away in a sub, sub , sub folder 'ExtensionManager.js' and 'ExtensionManager.htm'. I trashed them, rebooted and opened the CC Desktop App and lo and behold the add-ons I had selected almost a year ago came flooding in.

Give it a try.

Paul.

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AnthonyK

Inspiring

Paul-- Mac definitely has more problems than Windows, so your finding might be useful to others. Do you know the path to 'ExtensionManager.js' and 'ExtensionManager.htm'? Or maybe someone from Adobe staff could also answer where these errant files might be located. My experience is that this problem has still not been solved for many other people so this is certainly worth passing along. Thanks.

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ogrmedia

Participating Frequently

I think this situation has gone unresolved for long enough now. Adobe are very quick to take your money, yet seem unable to keep their software and add-ons running. I have a team of 12 freelance editors working on content for a Sky TV channel that I control, all but 2 of them use the CC2015 suite and all of them have various issues that have gone unanswered by Adobe.

This forum (and the adobe support sites generally) are filled with out of date information, broken links and generally unhelpful information. We are NOT software developers, nor do we wish to be. Hours of uninstalling and reinstalling broken software is costly to professional users and is wholly unacceptable from a company the size of Adobe.

I am putting together a half hour 'expose' style program to air on my channel and would be most interested in hearing from users who, like us, are tired of the lack of service from a company that purports to be 'high end'.

If you have an issue you would like us to consider for inclusion, you can email me direct at glenn.rogers@ogrmedia.com

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K_Woods-99W0pK

Community Manager

Hello Glenn,

I have just read through your post and some of the posts from other users on this matter.

The problem in diagnosing and pinpointing exactly what is going on here is tricky because it is not happening across the board. This problem is only affecting a small minority of Add-ons users. Therefore there is not one obvious solution which we can roll-out as a fix. We therefore have to investigate each user's problem on a case-by-case basis. We really do need specific information from the users affected in order to diagnose what's going wrong.

When we investigated user log files in the past, it was not one problem for each user, and we found that many users still had Extension Manager installed on their computer even although it is E-O-L'd, and we have asked all users to remove this as it does cause the problems described in these posts.

I had created a forum post at this link to help users with this issue. It requires them to send us their log files, and we in turn will read into them and then hopefully get to the bottom of the problem for each of the affected users, one by one.

Meantime we regret that this problem is occurring for users, and with the help of the users affected in sending us the logs, we will do our best to assist.

Regards,

Krystal

P.S. Please note that Add-ons is a separate additional service provided free to CS6 and CC users, irrespective of their CC membership. It has no impact on the pricing structure of memberships to Creative Cloud service.

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ogrmedia

Participating Frequently

With all due respect Krystal, the issue here is that paying customers seem to be being used as 'testers'. I recently added an audio player add on for Muse which did not require this protracted 'sync' scenario, I simply downloaded the .muslib file and executed it - no issues and a working feature. Then after shelling out £40 on paid add ons, discover the process is different. Everywhere you look on your forum, and the web in general, there are hundreds of people having these un-resolved issues and, frankly, just one is one too many for a company the size of Adobe. There is clearly a benefit to Adobe to offer these add ons, the very least you can do is to create distributable muslib versions of these products until a solution is found (please lets not pretend this is a 'rare case scenario') or suspend the service altogether.

Trying to resolve this has cost me many hours of valuable production time and now I have a further issue in that CCDA won't re-install. I appreciate that this is not your fault personally, but as the voice of Adobe in this forum perhaps you need to bounce this back up the chain and remind the faceless powers that be that it is not the customers job to act as fault finders. We've paid for your software and the add ons that are advertised and sold through your site, that's our end of the bargain taken care of. Your (Adobe's) role is to make damn sure those tools work. In a professional environment 2 days is too long to wait for an answer yet there are unanswered posts on here that go back over a year.

At this point I should be getting offered a refund for the add ons I bought, but of course Adobe will say 'we don't sell them, they're 3rd party add ons', but it's your unnecessarily protracted install methods that are preventing their use and the add on section of my account offers no re-course or refund policies.

In the last 2 hours I have had emails from over 40 disgruntled users (many more than have posted on the forum, yet are clearly reading it) I expect that number will rise dramatically over night. It's time to find a simple and effective fix for this, and the other ongoing problems that so many users seem to be experiencing.

I am a huge fan of the Adobe suite, but it's beginning to feel like you've been taken over by 'just out of college' software developers who don't have sight of the fact that the vast majority of your end users are business people who don't have time to help sort out the bugs.

My own issue isn't the fact that I've paid for features I'm not getting (lets be honest, £40 is peanuts really) but there is an over riding matter of principle here, customer service should be paramount, and it seems not to be where Adobe is concerned.

Glenn Rogers

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Josh Harwood

New Participant

Addons are not syncing/downloading to our team computers. Why is this not being fixed?

AndreasEdin

New Participant

I have the same issue, I am on Mac Adobe CC2015 and this add on I am trying to get is for Indesign. Can only 'acquire' add-ons at the moment and my company has bought into a big money solution which will make catalogue production easier using a InRiver Print Plug-In. But at the moment I can only sit and cry due to it not even being downloaded onto my computer. Adobe Forum as you mentioned only say no to helping, and that´s laughable.

NathanOdellin

Known Participant

This issue has been present for ages now and has not been fixed by Adobe. I've tried every single option for resolving 'missing' downloads, you name it I've done it and yet nothing works. I've paid for a Muse Widget and the transaction went through fine, Adobe and the third party have my money - but I do not have my product. So now my work is at a complete stand still.

Something else that I find seriously frustrating given Adobe has forced it's customers into the cloud, is that they do not provide 24 / 7 support. For professional designers, when something does not work (or rather, when Adobe's cloud software does not function as it is advertised) we are left completely in the dark to google our way though the mess of endless repeat questions.

I don't find this acceptable at all, given what the software costs. Adobe must be a multi million dollar business now, yet I still have to resort to community chat forums like this to solve urgent problems with their software, or else send emails that take days to get a response.

Adobe, please get your act together and at the very least provide paying customers with around the clock support. Even my web host provides this!

Not a happy bunny at all.

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Bob@ShibumiOz

New Participant

Hi guys. Update with the same stupid issue. Have just spent hours upon hours with Adobe trying to install the TKaction panel into Adobe Cloud 2016/2016. Cannot believe the ineptitude of Adobe. Still stuck no solutions, waiting for a call back from Adobe. Bob Lee

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AnthonyK

Inspiring

I've been emailing Bob@ShibumiOz who wrote: "Have just spent hours upon hours with Adobe trying to install the TKaction panel into Adobe Cloud 2016/2016."

It turns out that he actually got caught up in Adobe's switch from Flash panels to HTML5 panels with the release of CC 2014. Bob has the CS6 version of the TKActions V4 panel and was trying to install that into CC 2015, which is never going to work since CS6 panels are completely incompatible with CC 2015 products. The term "add-ons" had been interpreted somewhat generically by him to be all extension panels, not something specifically purchased from the "Add-ons" website. Completely understandable, though it took me a bit to figure out why even ZXP Installer wouldn't work for his panel. I'm at the point that even when Adobe tech support can't get people's panels to install, I have enough workarounds to get it working . . . though Bob's case puzzled me more than most.

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K_Woods-99W0pK

Community Manager

Just a follow-up for the CC 2015 installation problems, for a slightly simpler method of generating log files, we have created a log collector tool. Please see the updated instructions to users here: Add-ons installation problems and lack of activity in the CC app

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AnthonyK

Inspiring

"Moving to Add-Ons" is the answer? That would actually seem to be the problem. How is it the answer?

I have had several people write me that they can get NO add-ons to install directly from the Add-Ons website. Generally Mac users, but a few Windows folks too.

These people usually need to reinstall CC 2014 and then install the add-on through Extension Manager, which still works for CC 2014. Unfortunately, this negates one of the Add-Ons advantages, namely that the producer can upload updates or bug-fixes directly to Add-Ons and then Add-Ons automatically installs them on the end-users' systems.

On another thread K. Woods provided information on submitting error logs if Add-Ons installation fails. It's a bit hard to follow so I created a webpage with more distinct directions for Mac and Windows: http://www.goodlight.us/writing/error-logs/error-logs.html

Adobe claims they cannot replicate the Add-Ons problems users are experiencing. So error logs might be the only thing that can help Adobe figure this out.

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gutigas

Participating Frequently

Tengo el mismo problema. He enviado correo al desarrollador de tk actions y me ha dicho que es un problema de comunicación entre add ons y creative cloud de escritorio, es decir problema de adobe....a ver si ponen una solución de una vez, por que no estamos para tirar dinero en una extensión que no podemos instalar....Un saludo desde Pamplona(España) a todos.

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gutigas

Participating Frequently

Gracias, Gracias ppalludan. Problema solucionado.

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rndllcprn

New Participant

I have the same problem. No add-ons getting installed on CC2015.

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rndllcprnCorrect answer

New Participant

Fixed it by signing-out of Creative Cloud, restarting and opening Photoshop CC 2015 and signing-in from there. Add-ons installed a few seconds after.

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BriarKWAuthor

Participating Frequently

Briar here - the one who started this post.

Tried what you suggesed, rndllcprn, but it made no difference.

I note the update to Creative Cloud Desktop Manager (that a staff memeber has frecently said will solve the problem) but I have been using that latest version during all this. I have signed out of CCDM and signed in, removed my installs and reinstalled. Nothing. I am forced to use the alternative method of getting add-ons, which usually means a .zxp file to be installed using the Adobe Extension Manager. The AEM only works up to 2014 - not beyond - that's an Adobe edict. I'm using CC2015 - so the .zxp method isn't working either. I can't get the addons and I can't load in the. zxps! And I don't want to revert to CC 2014 !!

What I want to know is why the CCDesktop manager isn't processing these. Adobe Help used their remote acesss setup for some time,removed processes, cleaned out systems folders, uinstalled, reinstalled CC and did what they could but they couldn't track it down...

Very frustrating!!

Any more ideas anyone?

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