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leather.bird
Inspiring
April 13, 2020
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Creative Cloud "File syncing disabled. Contact your IT administrator for details" ???

  • April 13, 2020
  • 5 replies
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Hello,

 

Windows 10.

Creative Cloud file syncing is disabled.

 

Going to: Creative Cloud Desktop / Settings / Syncing says:

"You don't have access to manage preferences for Syncing

Permission fro your IT administrator may be required."

 

I have no IT department. This is just me and my new computer. What am i supposed to do?

Correct answer leather.bird

Resolved.

Adobe Customer Care agent commandeered my computer and for several hours was unable to solve the problem until…

Complete uninstall and re-install of all Adobe Products.

Boom.
Works flawlessly now.

They couldn't tell me what was wrong specifically, but this was apparently the only solution.

Many thanks.

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Marc23041871qiws
New Participant
September 15, 2023

I have chased my tail for months and several support calls with Adobe. I just found out that if you have an Adobe Acrobat Pro subscription alone you will get this "error". I signed in with a user that had a license for Creative Suite and the desktop sync worked correctly. I was informed that any license other than Acrobat will suffice. 

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Anonymous
October 5, 2022

I don't know if this will help everyone-- but I went into Activity Monitor (Mac, Task Manager for PC) and closed out all of the Adobe Processes and CoreSync then restarted my computer and it started working again when I reopened Creative Cloud. Worth a shot!

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Isaac5DDD
New Participant
October 5, 2022

I went in to task manager, force 'end task' on all adobe services in 'background processes', then ran creative cloud as administrator. This solved it for me without uninstalling anything 🙂

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leather.birdAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
April 20, 2020

Resolved.

Adobe Customer Care agent commandeered my computer and for several hours was unable to solve the problem until…

Complete uninstall and re-install of all Adobe Products.

Boom.
Works flawlessly now.

They couldn't tell me what was wrong specifically, but this was apparently the only solution.

Many thanks.

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Alyssa230902321rag
New Participant
February 10, 2022

I did this and it did not work. Any other solutions? Is it possible that sync does not work with trials?

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    Cindy24233137jqwa
    New Participant
    May 3, 2022

    I have also tried all these steps and it did not fix it for me either. 

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    Brainiac
    April 13, 2020

    First Restart your computer.

    Then check that you are Signed In to your computer with an Administrators account.

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    leather.birdAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 13, 2020

    Yep. I'm an administrator. Now what?

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