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Mark_E__ShepherdCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
October 14, 2015

Hi Warner, creative cloud libraries are stored on your local file system in the standard location for application data. We do not provide a way for users to choose a different location. FYI, on mac this is "/Library/Application Support/Adobe", on windows the location is something like "C:\Users\<username>AppData\Roaming\Adobe". Please be careful not to tamper with these files in any way.

Regards,

Mark Shepherd

CC Libraries Engineering

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Harry31268395d3mn
Participant
August 16, 2024

WOW, it's been almost nine years, and these people have ignored it. I guess they don't care about their customers. I don't understand how they got the idea of automatically downloading everything in the library into the C (or root) drive without letting the user manually set which files need to be synced and to what folder. unbelievable

What is the point of having a "Library" if I need to search and download a file every time I need it and delete it immediately when I finish with the files to save space in the C drive?

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kglad
Community Expert
kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 16, 2024

use save as and save to the folder you specify 

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Harry31268395d3mn
Participant
September 4, 2024

If I do that, will the files that are automatically downloaded in the C drive be deleted?
If the files are deleted from the C drive, are those files still visible in the "Library" window/tab?

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KateyBut
Participating Frequently
December 12, 2023

On Win 11 pro Adobe Libraries are located at...

"C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Creative Cloud Libraries\LIBS\249000C454EB733E0A0550BA_AdobeID\creative_cloud"

 

The vector files are in the "dcx" folder and the png are in the "Renditions" folder

 

Hope this helps

 

Kathy

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chi11ax
chi11ax
Participant
April 23, 2020

Bump 2020 .. can we move the libraries folder please? I'm trying the mklink approach.

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    madnessgraphicspoland
    madnessgraphicspoland
    Inspiring
    December 19, 2020

    I raise the request, it's sick that we can't do it!

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      kjetils30485119
      kjetils30485119
      Inspiring
      February 26, 2019

      I managed to export an cclibs containing mogrts from AE and import the file into Premiere, but I guess this won't work if the client is not using CC Libraries (which our clients does not). Another workaround I found to work for batch exporting mogrts is to select all files in the library inside Premiere Pro and right click and hit "copy to local". The files will then be exported to the Motion Graphics Templates folder (Library>Application Support>Adobe>Common).

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        nandhinin87775610
        Inspiring
        February 7, 2019

        Hi,

        can we send these creative cloud libraries folder files to another system and import these files like .cclibs?

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        guitar uk
        guitar uk
        Participating Frequently
        June 8, 2018

        'My' files on WIndows were in

        Local Disk C - Users - (me) - AppData - Roaming - Adobe - Creative Cloud Libraries - LIBS - (longnumber)AdobeID -creative_cloud - dcx

        in a sequence of folders with long numbered names.

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          Mefix
          Mefix
          Inspiring
          November 15, 2017

          Alright, since this is still not resolved since 2 years, here is a guide for windows how to circumvent the issue:

          Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries writes all the files shared between users to the C drive by default. Our Libraries are about 100GB+ in size, which leads to bottlenecks on low capacity system SSD's.

          Here is a guide how to create symlinks to move the Creative Cloud Library to a Cache drive.

          You can locate the Creative Cloud Libraries folder at:

          C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Creative Cloud Libraries

          1) You will need to close all adobe applications and Cut/move the "Creative Cloud Library" folder to the cache drive of larger capacity.

          2) After copying is complete, run the following command :

          mklink /D "[Initial location folder path on system drive]" "[folder path where the folder has been copied to]"

          Example: mklink /D "C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Creative Cloud Libraries" "D:\Cache\Adobe Cache\Creative Cloud Libraries"

          Dont forget the " for folder links.

          You will need to have no folder in the system drive, as the command will create one.

          3) All done! When you go into the system drive directory, it will pass all files along to a cache folder.

          4) You can do this with other Adobe and Cache-Heavy applications that dont allow cache directory customization.

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            NerdTeam
            NerdTeam
            Participating Frequently
            April 26, 2021

            I will give it a shot!..
            My C: I can't afford to use it as storage of hefty libs!

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            beninu
            beninu
            Participating Frequently
            August 17, 2023

            Now in 2023 - I also participated in this 4 years ago. I just got a bump from someone about this, and coming back I have since added an extra 10 TB cloud storage to my Adobe CC subscription so I now have the full Adbe Creative Cloud solution and an additional 10 TB Cloud Storage. I was just wondering isn't the whole local space problem the primary reason Adobe invented the Cloud Storage solution in the first place, an furthermore to make asset sharing easy when collaborating on projects?
            I personally find it very liberating to now work completely in projects and not having to care what folder I took it from. I do have an insane amount of assets like 100.000 photos, 20.000 soundfx, 12.000 ambience music files, and hours and hours of stock video (and I do keep a tidy environment by having different disks for different content types so I have 5 different disks for Sound, Music, Stills, Video and animations/fx, but they can all be linked to the same project and depending on what app I'm using the relevant files from the project are shown first. If I am in Photoshop it shows me my stills (although I can still see the other folders of my project), and when I am in Premiere it shows me the Video Clips, Effects and transitions, and so forth.

             

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              lawrencep20657409
              Participant
              November 1, 2017

              I think it would be very useful to have physical access to the CC libraries. So that you can update an image and have all references of that image automatically updated. I feel there is a flaw in Indesign when you drag/add a duplicate image to the CC libraries and rename it with the same name as an existing image. Both exist side by side. It should be intelligent enough to say. Do you want to replace the existing image?

              Either that or give us the rights to update the image directly in the CC libraries folder or have an ability to update an image in the library. If you do drag a new image and remove the old you then need to re-link all files that had the 'old' image.

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                aart12
                aart12
                Known Participant
                April 26, 2017

                [Working on PC Win10 x64 pro FYI]

                Why wouldn't, or shouldn't, cc libraries be stored and managed in the Creative Cloud Files location? Why must it be buried in the Adobe program location?

                Why is management of cc library files such a big secret or made so cumbersome?

                Surely it can be made as simple as a DropBox operation where management of a library is as simple as working in File Explorer to add, remove, rename, move, add a folder/library, etc. ...AND be able to move them off of your system drive with limited space and onto a drive with other assets and more space?

                Come on Adobe. I know you can do better than this!

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                  chasteb68574926
                  Participating Frequently
                  February 25, 2018

                  These template files, on a windows machine, can be located in the %appdata% Roaming>Adobe folder. Once inside this folder, simply search with CTRL+F for files with ".ind" extensions. Then right click and choose "open file location. The path should be similar to what I have uploaded in this picture.

                  The easiest way to manage these template files is to download the file, open it up in say "InDesign" and then SAVE AS a template to a folder of your making and choosing.

                  As for licensing and copyright issues, I would welcome feedback from Adobe on this. But this, for me anyway, seems the easiest manner to find, identify and archive these templates.

                  The alternative is having to manually open each and everyone of these files with 30 odd digit filenames and rename them and save them to other locations.

                  The benefit of opening from the Application Interface is having the file information and product synopsis at hand

                  This method seems the more time friendly.

                  I hope this helps someone.

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                  pgcca61252993
                  Participant
                  March 29, 2018

                  Here's a thought. Forget Creative Cloud and Libraries and simply put all your assets in a folder called "Assets." on your server.

                  In fact, I use Dropbox to store all my assets. With Dropbox I can share a link to any folder with ANYONE. So if somebody needs access to my logo assets, I just e-mail them a link to my "Logos" folder. No actual files are uploaded or downloaded by me.

                  Because you can also share a folder with other Dropbox members—like my coworkers—they already have access.

                  Yes there is a fee for Dropbox and the storage size is based on how much you pay. But I have a business account with unlimited storage and five key user memberships. But the fact is—only three people actually access files as members. Everyone else just uses the link. Basically, they store the link, click on it. They go to a Web page called "Assets" they click on "Assets" and choose what type of asset they are looking for: Color templates, Logos, Photos listed by date, Stored information, Meeting minutes, you name it and it can be an asset. I can send my entire 8 tB Asset folder to you in seconds—because it's just a URL.

                  Seriously Adobe—c'mon.

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                  MADink_Designs27
                  MADink_Designs27
                  Inspiring
                  September 9, 2016

                  What I would like is for the libraries to appear on a local machine in a way a human can understand. Maybe storing them in folders the same name as our library folders, naming the files what we name them, etc.

                  Here I sit with hundreds of library items that need the same update. If the libraries were saved locally in the above manner, the update would be a breeze. They happen to have been created in Illustrator and I could create an action to expedite the process.

                  The way they are now, I can't tell the difference between the files...

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