How can I relocate my Creative Cloud folder from my computer to an External Hard Drive?

[Nobilis Bellator]

I was just accepted to be part of the early users of the sync function with Creative Cloud and would like to use it but do not want to take up any of my computer's hard drive space. I would like to move the Creative Cloud folder to an external HD. How can I do this?

[JustAKreation]

was this not answered because its an obvious question or because you can't? I think thats a reasonable request I love the idea of the creative cloud folder but I don't have 20gbs of storage on my local drive.

[Ken G. Rice · Accepted solution]

From the Creative Cloud desktop application open the Preferences dialog. Select the Files tab and change the Folder location to the one you want.

[erin_mccall]

Is there any risk with file use if the original files are in located in the CC folder on an external hard drive?

Dropbox does not offer consistent compatibility with an external drive, and before I migrate all my files to the CC folder to enable cloud backup, I'd like to know that I can definitely rely on CC on an external drive.

Thx for the help.

[heatherhoney76]

Hey....i have no computer. No hard drive to back it too. People around here are janky. Stealin a girls broken ol laptop...what am I supposed to do?

[stevemarvell]

This does not actually work. It just reverts to the original, even though it says it has a new location.

[DoJa]

I need to move the libraries located on my c-drive to an other drive,...HOW!

They are growing rapidly and im getting in trouble have a full c-disk on which my system (win10() is installed!

[panrealitymedia]

...as of version 6.4.0, there seems to be no Files tab in the Preferences dialog.
In this version, I see only [General, Apps, Notifications, Services, Appearance, Home]

This issue for me, is that it's not just a folder called "Creative Cloud Files" but rather something like:

"Creative Cloud Files Personal Account myname@email.com 620B1289988777e30A490D4C@AdobeID"

I cannot see anywhere in Preferences to redefine that folder location.

 ---v

[kglad]

@panrealitymedia 

what are you trying to do?

[victorwilliamson]

I have this issue as well, no files tab, and its eating 60Gig of fast storage that it doesn't need to.

[triff_wushu]

Same here, none of the Google results for moving the CC files location apply to the current version, and my path is 152 characters long.

[kglad]

there is no more local sync folder.

for enterprise and teams, https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/eol-cc-synced-files-for-business-plans.html

for individual subscribers, https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/eol-creative-cloud-synced-files.html