The current method of deleting files permanently from Creative Cloud is cumbersome and time-consuming. There should be an option to Empty Deleted Files or some other mechanism, rather than the awkward approach that exists. I shouldn't have to scroll through dozens of pages of deleted files to try to remove them from CC storage. I know I can shift-select to get a range of files checked at the same time, but the server response is slow and often takes minutes or longer to confirm that something has been deleted. It also often fails to delete something permanently and thus it's impossible to tell whether any of the files you've already highlighted are in fact removed. Most other cloud-based storage offers some way of eradicating unnecessary files in a single shot (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.). Granted, none of these services make it overtly obvious how to do it, but they do offer such a tool.
I use CC for a great number of projects and, after archiving to an external drive, I want to regain space on Creative Cloud. Hence, there's a periodic need to do this work, and it shouldn't take me an hour to do it as I wait for the server to respond, frequently getting frustrated and moving on to another task, then coming back to find it either didn't work or is still thinking (though there's no indication of any progress either). Thankfully, the larger storage limit reduces this need somewhat, but it's still frustrating whenever I do have to pare down.
Adobe should rethink the interface for this part of CC.
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