How to Stop Acrobat Pro DC from saving to Cloud?

[longstreath]

I have a subscrioption for Acrobat Pro DC Continuous Release version 2022

I have files on my computer that I want to edit, ie add highlights or comments to. I want to save them after editing without them going to the cloud.

I have looked through the preferences and cannot find an option to turn off saving to the cloud.

I have tried removing the save button, but there is no save as button, so now every time I want to save a file that I have edited or made comments on, I have to go to File > Save As > then choose the location > then overwrite the file.

This is crazy! I just want to save the file with the edits to the original location.

How can this be done now without so much effort?

[Bernd Alheit]

What does you see at the preferences?

[Abambo]

First:

• Save is Ctrl/Command+s
• Save As is Ctrl/Command+Shift+s

Acrobat, by using save, saves the document to the same place where the PDF file has been opened from, overwriting the previous version.

The Save As command saves by default into the same folder as it has been opened from (preselected).

1. recent folders, select the one you need
2. Choose a different folder, not in the “recent” list.
3. Save somewhere else on preconfigured cloud accounts.

This is for a Windows PC Computer.

(BTW: When posting here, only select the relevant topics. People are specifically following topics of their competence.)

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi Longstreath,

Thank you for reaching out.

If you are working on the files saved locally and save them after making changes, they will not get saved on Acrobat Cloud Storage automatically. It needs to be done manually, and there is no automatic process.

As you add a comment and make changes to the file, you get the Save icon under the Home tab on the Menu bar. If the file is saved locally, it will save the changes to the same file. Or you can use the File > Save option.

You may disable the "Show online storage when saving files" under Edit Menu >  Preferences > General if you wish.

Let us know if you are referring to something else.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

[Jennifer2648879270f6]

Hello, it is February 2024 and actually, Adobe Acrobat IS IN FACT automatically saving my PDFs to the Cloud by default - which is incredibly annoying. Is there now a solution to change that feature?

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

[Jennifer2648879270f6]

Thank you so much!!!

[Energy_Guy]

I have a similar question wherein whenever I attach pdf files to an email, Adobe Acrobat Pro copies the file to the cloud and create links to the files. This was a novelty at first but is no a major concern due to: 1) I don't want to have confidential company documents in Adobe's cloud (versus my company's intranet) due to cyber security concerns 2) on a recent attachment yesterday, Adobe failed to convert the files leaving me with no option for sharing the files since every attempt to attach the files to an email resulted in Adobe Acrobat trying to invest and save the files to the cloud only to fail. I finally created a SharePoint folder and shared the link to the shared files but this was far more work than just attaching the (less than 1 MB files) in an email.  Please advise.