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suz davison
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April 22, 2019
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Change CC files location

  • April 22, 2019
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Hi,

I want to free some space on my hard drive and CC files are taking up a lot of room. In the future I planned to turn off sync and manually upload them to the Cloud service (and also save a copy of them on a USB stick too.)

So have moved the folder location from C drive to a USB stick. It moved fine and I can see them all the files there. But when I want to delete the CC files off the hard drive it deletes them off the USB stick too. I have turned off sync.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

Suzie

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Correct answer kglad

why don't you remove your usb stick and then delete from your harddrive.

p.s. did you install all your adobe cc apps on a non-c drive?

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Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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April 22, 2019

First of all, USB sticks are absolutely the first source of lost data, external harddisks are the second source.

Second: I find it odd that when you copied your data from your C: drive to an external USB stick and when you delete a file on C it deletes also on the USB. That is only possible if you are using a windows program to synchronize both directories. I doubt that this is the case. I suppose you are deleting on the USB drive. So kglad​‘s suggestion to remove the USB stick will prove that.

I would seriously consider a harddisk upgrade.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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suz davisonAuthor
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April 23, 2019

Hello,

Yes you're right it's not a great idea to have the files on a usb.

But I'm keeping them on the cloud too, so for now hopefully that will be ok.

I am getting a new computer soon, just trying to find a way to get my current one working better for now.

I think the problem is with something else though as after doing this it's no better!

But I'll ask that on a separate question!

Thanks for taking the time to reply

Suzie

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    April 22, 2019

    why don't you remove your usb stick and then delete from your harddrive.

    p.s. did you install all your adobe cc apps on a non-c drive?

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    suz davisonAuthor
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    April 23, 2019

    Good suggestion, that seemed to do the trick.

    Thanks

    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
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    April 23, 2019

    you're welcome.

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