Why is Adobe CC "Unable to reach Adobe servers"

[F.Quill]

Just started doing this, tonight.   ... ? for no reason ...  Weirdly suspicious, and ex-annoying.

"Unable to reach Adobe servers"  (see screencap below)

Firewall settings are not changed, and I have no idea what it means about time settings?  

And I was able to get the CC window to pop-up for a second and when I clicked on the community it crashed again.

Signed in from my browser - to Adobe and their Adobe Creative Cloud "contact" button for support does not work, on their page, either.

My account is in good standing.

What is best action recommended?

macOS Catalina, v10.15.7  Adobe CC Member 4 years approx.

 

[kglad]

adobe's website is having problems.  many of us are seeing issues with signing-in, accessing cloud files etc.

what are you doing that triggers that message?

[F.Quill]

Apologies for late reply - out all day.  The message (screenshot) that I posted above is what shows when I click on my Adobe Creative Cloud (symbol on my top bar on my iMac).

This is what I get when I try to open PS (or InDesign).

I even tried opening an older version of PS and same pop-up blocks me.  When I close the pop-up I cannot use PS - it just closes - same with InDesign.  I won't bother opening LR because it will make me sick to my stomach if it doesn't work (or worse - crashes, ... ).

Did get to talk to Adobe support - chat on-line - briefly, last night, but was so late that I could not continue.  I will call back, this evening.  

This is really hard - can't even use any of my applications to get some work done.

Would that I did a big housekeeping back-up, check & clean-up all drives, and review TM & TC back-ups for two iMacs (one is an older one that is no longer used for any Adobe applications - computer is just too old), & reviewed wi-fi/ internet upload/download speeds etc., all successfully completed just prior to this event, possibly have had anything to do with this?  Nothing major changed but did notice that an old version of Adobe CC was purged (v 2019).  

I was able to sign-in to my account from my browser and checked on my account standing.  Everything looks fine but I did notice that the time-zone was one zone west so I corrected that - that's the only "time settings" I could find or think of.  Everything on this computer is A-OK!

I am never the smartest UI or OS person in the room - not even close: that makes me pay close attention, though.

So I really I do appreciate guidance.

As it stands, in this moment, I cannot do ANY work with ANY Adobe product. 

Yikes!

[F.Quill]

Just did another check to see if I could use any applications off-line and discovered that there was some "syncing" activated with the Creative Cloud.  (Pretty sure I have never activated that, to date, but saw that the  "cloud" icon was on top of the application bar for PS and ID.  

Then, I went back on-line, opened CC, and paused the "syncing".  

That seemed to work, but now there is a "pause" symbol on the "cloud" on my bar.  (I don't need to sync anything, at this time, and probably won't want to if it means that I can never get work done when off-line.)

At least I can now use the Adobe applications, off-line, and the pop-ups about subscriptions and servers stopped.  

What would cause a syncing error, and why would it tell me that there is a server or subscription error, instead?

Am still looking for answers as to why this has happened and how to prevent this new and bad behaviour from recurring.

Thank-you, in advance, for any suggestions.

[Ko.Maruyama]

The little pause is activated manually if you don't want anything to automatically sync.

The only thing that I have experienced like this has to do with your CreativeCloud App.  The one that runs the whole dealio.  Make sure that CreativeCloud Desktop app is up to date.  When the app "calls home" to verify the license, if it's not a current version, it used to cause problems.

[F.Quill]

Thank-you KoMaruyama!

There is no prompt or notice that CC is not up-to-date.  

I saved this note for restart instruction, just in case something like this happened.  Not the same issue in this case but wonder if I should try it out?

I tend to be cautious with re-launching but what's the worst that could happen?

 Late last night, while on chat with Adobe, the advisor was going to try to talk me thru a process but  it was really late (too tired) so I told them I could not - that I would call back (but too busy all day, today).

This is a screen-cap of what they were asking me to do - on my system... but none of these things were open at the time, in Finder, anyway, so I thought that was an odd place to start. (Of course they for permission to come on to my computer to do this - I did that once years ago and learned to not ever do that again, ever.)  That is when I decided I was probably too tired to deal with it, last night.  

 There are not ... (dots) on anywhere on the CC window, for an update.  I looked in all the account settings, etc.,  but see nothing about CC updates - although I do recall setting a preference sometime back to keep Adobe Creative Cloud up-to-date.

But I do not allow automatic up-dates on the Apps - those, I prefer to know when, and choose when I am ready to update those.  Truth is, am waiting to up-date PS and LR because of my macOS and that there are a number of issues between these Adobe apps and my OS that are not resolved, yet.  But I did up-date InDesign and Illustrator - haven't had time to test-drive them, yet but also, don't have much projects invested in those at the moment so they are not as important, anyway.

Again, it is very late, tonight, for me, so I will try again, tomorrow.

Thanks, again!

[kglad]

re: adobe support chat, those are background processes.  they won't be in finder.  you'll see them in your (settings > ) activity monitor and can force quit using your activity monitor.

re: your cc app, open cc>click help>click about cc and make sure it's verion 5.3.1.470 - this will change sometime after 03/03/2021

now, i'm not sure what current problems you're having.  if the problem is unchanged from your original post, start here and confirm that you can connect to the secure adobe servers by reading, http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-network-issues.html

do you see both logos?

[F.Quill]

Thank-you, kglad!

Timing is everything!  The Creative Cloud is updated, now, to V 5.4.1.534 (did it in the bg) and all apps seem to be working off-line and on-line.

There is an issue with the time-zone on my OS (maybe because of Daylight-Savings-Time (DST), here).  Am going to ignore that, for now.  It will go away in a few weeks when our clocks change. (DST is a complete WASTE of time and energy at every level but some silly folks where I live want it to be on forever - it should be OFF forever.)

Also there is an issue with the 'syncing' that is paused, now.  Still cannot find any place where I can disallow or stop the sync process.  That is a new, odd, and undesired behaviour.  Will explore and learn more about as it applies with the Apps I use most, later.  Suspect it may have to do with some Presets.  That is a different topic, tho.

Thank-you for the link to the network issue page!  Excellent resource that I will study, today.  At a glance, there are a few topics there that need my attention to learn more.

But I think I am good to go, for now.  So thanks, again, for your valued input.  Adobe Community Pros are my heros!  

Have a wonderful day!

[kglad · Accepted solution]

sync pause is the same as stop.  it should remain "paused" with computer restarts and adobe cc app updates.

the only thing that should cause sync to unpause/restart would be if you manually click "resume syncing" in the preferences>syncing panel

your system clock can be an issue causing connection problems.  i have no idea why that should be so, but check step3, #2 on the network issue link:

[F.Quill]

Thanks, again!  

1 - 'Pause' it is to do with syncing some presets - Will fix, that later.

2 - System clock is odd.  Appears to be rooted in my OS.  All of my activities, when logged in on my system, are time-stamped correctly.  But when my computer is asleep - it apparently, does not know what time of day it is, or even what day it is ... 🤔  much like myself, this last year, ... .

Anyway, that is an OS thing that I will correct.

3.  Appreciate reminders to make sure that the access is to secure sites - always important!

I think I am good to get with biz, now!  Appreciate all of your help!

[kglad]

that (system clock) could be a battery problem, Clock stopping in sleep mode - Microsoft Community

[F.Quill]

Probably not relatable to my OS on iMac - not a laptop - not Microsoft.  There are a couple minor Apple OS issues that occur - the sleep-mode clock is one but I will take that up with them - now it bugs me.  

Again, thank-you so much to this community for all of the helpful info!  Makes a huge difference to getting things done without having to call in to Adobe for Support!