Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files

Using Creative Cloud Libraries is a good alternative for sharing assets online across different apps, users, or systems, and is widely supported throughout Creative Cloud...

From the FAQ:

Is there an alternative to Creative Cloud Synced files, which is being discontinued?

 

For Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fresco users, cloud documents are the solution for saving, sharing, and collaborating on creative work in progress. Creative Cloud Libraries are the best way to save and share design elements across applications and users.

Social media influencers:

"We want to put a hat on a gerbil and make it ride a unicycle, fo the gram!"

Adobe:

"Here you go, like, try our new Photoshop with AI that we're spending £$£$£$£$£$ on, YOLO!"

Designers:

"We'd simply like to continue using a great Adobe feature that allows for seamless workflow and file sharing amongst businesses and teams."

Adobe:

"Nah."

My company uses a CC library for branded visual elements, templates, icons, etc.......because this is synced across all accounts, will this also be impacted and taken away?

Okay, so here's what I think is the situation - hopefully others on here will keep me right...

Back when Adobe CC Libraries kicked off alongside Adobe CC Synced Files, the idea was to place your work into these online libraries to access work from anywhere. It definitely works, but I never utilised it as much as I should have as it was easier to work with files on my laptop/desktop which were then synced, meaning they were safe and versioning was included too.

With the launch of Photoshop and Illustrator on the iPad, we saw the creation of Cloud Documents, meaning it was easier to work on files (AIC or PSDC) no matter where I was. It's also became the norm with regular prompts asking me if I want to save to the Cloud or on my computer (offline). This all works fine but for one drawback - these Cloud Document files aren't accessible within InDesign, which is an application I use daily.

The latest InDesign Beta features Cloud Documents, which I hope will mean that my AIC files and PSDC files will become accessible (does this also mean InDesign for the iPad is days away?). I will have to installed InDesign Beta to test this theory,

So, with Cloud Documents now becoming what will likely be the mainstay, our synced files are becoming a legacy service. Does this mean that we'll get a way to easily transfer across our synced files to Cloud Documents? With 28GB of files (six years of work), I really hope Adobe offers a succinct way to do this.

I don't mind Adobe switching from one service to another, but six months for me to figure this out is a bit of a close one and with InDesign still not working with Cloud Documents in its non-beta version, I hope the migration from one to the other is days away and not weeks.

I'm obviously speaking to the above as someone who has continuous access to the internet, so Cloud working is never an issue, but for those with limited or intermittent internet access, I can see it being an extra workaround having to save files to Cloud Documents and then remembering to save a backup version on their HDD/SDD. 

This is the final straw for me. I'm pretty sure with Sketch/Figma, Blender, Affinity and Visual Studio (or similar) I can pretty much do my job without Adobe. I'm looking forward to saving the subscription fees. I'll spend them on a decent Cloud syncing service. Any recommendations (I'm no fan of Dropbox any more)? 

Does this include CC libraries? 

I'm just getting into this news as I did not get an email about it. I just found out about it as I was looking into our pricing structure for our Teams licenses. And whether we might want to swtich to Individual (whole other story).

But as far as this, it sounds to me that Adobe recognizes that people are using more than one machine and they are looking at trying to make a file format that will work on a "streaming" platform. For example we know PSD are Photoshop but maybe the new files will be WPSD or web Photoshop. I don't know.

I too, do not like this. I haven't really liked the Creative Cloud. Loved the Creative Suite. The CC has way too many updates for features that I haven't needed/asked for or has broke functions that were already working just fine.

And there are way too many apps that I don't need or use. Yeah it's a great deal in the big picture. But we all are paying for apps and services we are not using.

I use the syncing not to share files between multiple machines, but with customers who will not accept links through other platforms.  Maybe now they will or maybe we will have to pay for another service. Time will tell. Maybe it's time to go

back and use FTP. Not as slick or user friendly, but it's realiable if setup correctly.

Who needs syncing anyways. 😉 JK.

I kind of expecting a change on that CC folder sync because it is not pretty intuitive if compared to some other cloud storage services like Dropbox, One Drive or Google Drive (I subscribed to the last two). My guess is that this new CC Storage will compete with those others, and the worst part maybe, comes with an extra price.

So... I pay $55 a month and they are getting rid of Cloud part of Creative Cloud??? It's like one of the main features of the service part of the product. Adobe should be ashamed of this.