Move Adobe folder from my 'Documents' folder on Mac

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
November 9, 2021
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Anyone know if there is a solution to this yet? It's driving me insane. Not sure why Adobe thinks that the Documents folder is a good place for this. It's syncing to my iCloud account, so it ends up on my phone, ipad, etc and I can't find any way of moving it to another location.

Stay out of my Documents folder, Adobe! This has been a problem for years and I've had enough. I'm on the verge of just getting rid of Adobe altogether.

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Joshfree

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It looks like this works: I moved the Animate folder out of the Adobe folder and put it in my primary User folder. Then made an alias of it and put that into the Adobe folder. When I opened Animate, it found the original files and folders and updated all of it just fine. So I think you can put the folder wherever you want as long as you leave an alias in place (with the same name) that points to the new location. Worth a shot with other Adobe apps.

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Punks_a_myth

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Yeah, this is a massive problem for me too. all my projects get moved to my Hard Drive to save space on my MacBook, but then my Icloud is always full because all the data is stored there instead of internally on the device. Adobe needs to sort this issue out because I am tempted to just use Da Vinci Resolve as it's free and is industry certified as it is made by Black Magic Cameras. Much better free service especially for colour grades.

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Mario Badilla

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Have you found a solution to this? I have the same problem with iCloud

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Steve Lee CreativeAuthor

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Unfortunately not, and it's severely p*ssing me off. This has been a well documented issue for several years now, and Adobe seem to have zero interest in resolving it.

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Steve Lee CreativeAuthor

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It's not the creative cloud files folder. It's a folder simply titled 'Adobe' and contains several subfolders for different applications - media encoder, Premier Pro, etc. The folders seem to contain mainly preference files and suchlike. I really don't want this in my Mac's Documents folder, and I certainly don't want it taking up my iCloud space. Moving the folder simply results in another one being created. Not good enough.