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May 27, 2023
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All my favorites are gone

  • May 27, 2023
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After saving the artwork via the favorite button. Clicking on my favorites and there's nothing here just a blank white page. I had many artworks stored there now they are all probably gone forever.

 

Firefox
Version 115.0

 

Windows 10 Pro

Version 22H2

Correct answer droopydog500

Hello @arine98A6,

Thank you for your message. I am sorry you are having this problem. These questions and answers are from the document: Everything you wanted to know about Favourites in Adobe Firefly:

Q: I cannot find my favourites! What happened to them?

A: Are you using the same browser on the same computer where you favourited them? Because they are stored in the browser cache, you can only access a favourite in the same browser on the computer or mobile device it was favourited on.

 

Q: I am using the same browser and all my favourites disappeared. It is the same browser on the same computer. Can I get them back?

A: Unfortunately, if you are using the same browser on the same computer and they are no longer there, they are most likely gone forever. This could happen if, for example, you cleared your cache in the browser, used a utility program that claims to clean up space on your computer (which frequently includes deleting the browser cache), or ran out of disk space (causing the browser to delete them).

 

I said "most" likely, because there are steps you can take to rewind your cache if you had already been backing it up, but most people do not do that. My primary platform is Mac and I back my browser cache up with Time Machine on the Mac, so I can go backwards in time and restore my cache from a point in time. This has saved me a few times when something was deleted from my cache and I was able to roll the cache and settings back a day. If Windows was my primary platform, I could do something similar on it.


My best,
    droopy

52 replies

Participating Frequently
May 16, 2024

Hiya so some of the images I created when I first started using Adobe Firefly have disappeared. How can I retrieve those? I made sure to favorite them so they didn't disappear. 

Thanks.

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 16, 2024

Hello @AuroraPhoenix41 ,

 

Thanks for your message.  Is it possible you saved them while using a different browser on the same computer or on another computer?  They are saved in the browser cache so you can only access the using the browser on that computer, and you should not clear your cache/cookies.

 

If they were in the same browser on the same computer, it is likely you cannot recover them. The primary way of recovering them is if you back up your browser user profile directory and are able to restore that from backups. Few people back that data up.

 

My best,

    droopy

Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
Participant
April 7, 2024

My favorites are erased. Please help.

@mj
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 7, 2024

Favorites are saved using your browser data, so they won't be available on another browser, in incognito mode, or if you clear your browser data

 

hth

mj

iMSD

Participant
March 19, 2024

When I click the favorite icon on a generated image, the images do not show up in the favorites panel.

Ten A
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 20, 2024

Your favorites are stored in your browser's storage.

If your browser settings do not allow storage or cookies, you will not be able to save your favorites.

You will need to check your browser settings and make sure they are correct or use a different browser.

AG_Lucas
Participating Frequently
March 18, 2024

Same problem here. I'm logged in the same account, same browser and same machine and only the last couple of favourites are there. This is unacceptable, I lost days in research!

Firefly is a mess is this is why I'm gradually quitting Adobe products

Intel Core i7-4790 CPU 3.60GHz / 32GB RAM - 1600MHz DDR3 / Win10 64-bit
Participant
March 7, 2024

Hello,

all favorites disappeared over night. I have noticed that favorites cannot be saved across browsers. The fact that the images then simply disappear after a month is problematic.

Participant
March 3, 2024

It seems that none of my favorites are ever saved. I would appreciate help.

Mac OS 12.6

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 4, 2024

Are you looking in the same browser on the same computer?  Favourites are not stored centrally (unfortunately), they are stored in the browser.  So if you change to another browser or computer, you will not see the ones you previously stored.

 

Also, because they are stored in the browser cache, if you clear the browser cache your favourites will be gone.

 

If none of these apply to you (you are using the same browser on the same computer and did not clear your cache), then is the favourites page blank?  If you save a favourite now, is it visible on the favourites page?

Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
Participant
February 24, 2024

When I'm in stock it has thumbnails of my favorite firefly images but when I click on it it says I have 0 items in my folder. When I switch over to firefly web it also says I have no favorites.

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 24, 2024

Did you use the same browser on the same computer to save the favourites?

Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
Participant
February 20, 2024

My fovorites are not showing up.

droopydog500
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 20, 2024

Favourites are stored in the browser, so you have to use the same browser on the same computer. Are you using the same browser on the same computer where you favourited them?  If so, have you recently reset or cleared browser information recently (deleting cookies and cache, etc)?

Adobe Community Expert (not an Adobe employee)
Participant
February 7, 2024

its happened again ...i've just not used it for a while. no other changes. same browser, smae system, my cache doesnt clear automatically. etc -i had downloaded my work knowing that this issue arises (so not all lost) however the saved work only retains a part of the prompt. having spent a lot of time developing the right prompts for firefly this is just not good enough.  I'm done with this (Adobe) and will not be renewing my subscription. bye

Participant
February 1, 2024

So did mine. However now knowing they are saved locally to the browser from reading the replies above, I realize I just updated my Mac OS which probably caused that to reset. Not sure if that happened to others here too.