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September 20, 2013
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Creative cloud applications keep asking me to login every time I launch an application

  • September 20, 2013
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Creative cloud applications keep asking me to login every time I launch an application on a same machine.

How to solve this problem?

Windows 7 Professional.

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Correct answer David__B

Please ensure you have the latest version of the Creative Cloud app installed

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/release-note/cc-release-notes.html

We also have this solution for the having to sign in on every product launch

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/unable-login-creative-cloud-248.html

If you're continuing to have issues please post back

Thanks,

- Dave

46 replies

Participating Frequently
May 25, 2014

I have the same flavour of issue. Well I sometimes have to re-enter my login details or click on "License product" but my biggest issue is Adobe Application Manager getting stuck on "Validating Software License" when I try to open Premiere. It just spins and spins, closes, reopens, spins.... FOREVER. I simply can't use Premiere CC. All other apps open fine. This happened a day after I purchased a subscription. I had been using it on a previous subscription paid for by work and then a trial once I swapped it to my adobe ID. All other software accepted the transition but for some reason Premiere, or AAM on its behalf, freaks out.

This is getting ridiculous Adobe.

Inspiring
April 24, 2014

FIXED

mrjonnywood found the solution:


I had a similar problem. Every time I opened a CC App, I was asked to sign in. I followed instructions on several forums, but nothing worked.

Yesterday I got in touch with Adobe Help and together we spent over two hours trying to resolve the problem. I have to say Khongyairong (the guy I was dealing with) was very helpful but we ran out of time as I had to go out.

Today, I decided to remove every single trace of Adobe from my Mac. I followed these steps and all now works as it should!

Please note the order – uninstall apps first, then run cleaner, then manually remove any left over files.

Warning: You will delete all Adobe files from your computer. If you are using any Adobe products other than Creative Cloud please make sure you check every file before deleting it – if it's not related to CC don't delete it! You might want to make a snapshot of your system that you can restore to before doing this. If there is more than 1 user on the Mac make sure they don't have Adobe products that could be effected by the following process.

  1. Use the Uninstallers for each App you have (uninstallers can be found in Applications/Adobe *App Name*/Uninstall Adobe *App Name*
  2. Check Applications/Utilities for any other Adobe Uninstallers and run them
  3. Use Creative Cloud Cleaner to remove everything else (I was given the download from Khongyairong so don't have the link)
    1. Select 'All' from the dropdown menu, top-right.
    2. Click 'Clean All'
  4. At this point I restarted my Mac but it may not be necessary.
  5. Go to /Library/Application Support and delete the entire Adobe folder (I also deleted the Macromedia folder too, but I think this is just for Flash Player)
  6. Go to /Library/Caches and delete all folders and files with 'Adobe' in the name
  7. Go to (User) ~/LibraryApplication Support and delete the entire Adobe folder
  8. Go to /Users/Shared/Library/Application Support and delete the entire Adobe folder (if you have more than one user set up make sure they are not using Adobe products that will not function correctly if you delete this folder)
  9. At this point I searched my entire computer for any other files or folders with Adobe in the name and deleted them
  10. There was also a Photoshop folder in one of the Librarys (can't remember which but check in both) I deleted that too
  11. I emptied the trash and restarted here and would recommend the same

At this point I could have started installing the software again, but I took some extra steps which involved 3rd party software. I use Onyx which is a very good tool to clean up OS X system. You can use this or something similar to do the following:

  1. Reset home folder permissions and ACLs
  2. Clear system and user caches

During the Onyx processes I was promted to restart my Mac a couple of times. Once all that was completed my Mac was booting up a fraction quicker than before (which was a nice bonus).

Fresh installs

I then went to creative.adobe.com, signed in and downladed Creative Cloud Desktop App – nothing else.

I installed CC desktop, signed in and initially downloaded 1 app (in my case Photoshop), opened it and waited... no window requesting sign in!!!!

I double checked, by quiting and reopening Photoshop – all seemed good!

I was then able to install other CC Apps (one by one just be sure) from the Creative Cloud App and every one of them works withut being promted to sign in!

Hope this works for you, I've seen this issue a lot and was very happy to have a solution to share it with others!

Good luck and let's hope that doesn't recur. Ever.

binaryfishie
Participant
May 24, 2014

I used this solution and it worked for 2 days then the issue started repeating.

I deleted the opm.db file from /Application Support/Adobe/OOBE as suggested and was able to log in.

I find it ridiculous that every time I try to work I have to waste an hour (or more) of my time to work around login issues. I'd rather work with a cracked version of CS6 than keep paying for a broken product I cannot use.

Update: 6 hours later I'm unable to use any apps again. It cycles between the Renew Subscription screen and the Thank You screen. Any suggestions? David__B

David__B
David__BCorrect answer
Legend
March 20, 2014

Please ensure you have the latest version of the Creative Cloud app installed

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/release-note/cc-release-notes.html

We also have this solution for the having to sign in on every product launch

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/unable-login-creative-cloud-248.html

If you're continuing to have issues please post back

Thanks,

- Dave

Participating Frequently
March 23, 2014

Dave I have officially named you "hero" for these posts. I have no idea what an IMSLib is, but the executable seems to have (at least for now) fixed the problem.

I have to ask why this fix hadn't showed up in all the searches I have conducted trying to solve this problem. There is no issue date on the page. Is it a recent document?

Participating Frequently
April 2, 2014

Is it me, or is it becoming worse over time?

Now...

  • every application asks me to login on startup - no matter how many instances of Adobe CC are already running
  • some applications ask me to login twice in a row
  • others ask me to login and won't start, just in order to ask me to login again on restart

This thing is making me furious Long time customer here, but you'd better take this issue serisouly, because it sheds a very bad light on your products, Adobe.


What frightens me William is that this is a cross platform (Mac & Win) issue.   That tells me these solutions are just repairs to the files on our machines that are being damaged somehow by the CC authentication process. The root cause is still out there and it will happen again and again. It has happened to me when shooting in the field and it prevents me from editing a photograph in camera raw then loading it into Photoshop. I am screwed until I leave the shoot and find a Starbucks or someplace with internet access. It sure kills a location shoot when the photographer needs to leave for an hour to re-authenticate.


I am not sure it this IMSLib repair and CC update have resolved the problem. I've not had it happen for a few days. But if it has not been properly fixed, guaranteed it will rear up again when I am on the clock in the field. If that happens, Adobe will be getting a bill.

jeffseaver
Participating Frequently
March 2, 2014

What drives me most crazy about this is how long this has been going on, how many hundreds of posts I've seen about this on message boards and blogs, how many times Adobe has posted ineffective suggestions and still continues to not acknowledge this as a known and documented bug.

It's not that big a deal to have to look up an Adobe password and type it in, every day, every time I go to use Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, AfterEffects, Muse or Creative Cloud for app updates or font sync'ing via Typekit.

My frustration has to do with being a guineau pig while Adobe works out all the kinks to this truly annoying subscription model. If they would just say "We know it's a problem, we're working on it" - it would help.

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 6, 2014

jeff@seaver.com wrote:

If they would just say "We know it's a problem, we're working on it" - it would help.

Yup. I made the same request in another thread (http://forums.adobe.com/message/6185641?tstart=0#6185641).

Participating Frequently
March 14, 2014

I don't know, are these admissions by Adobe that there actually IS a problem? Seems like they are aware of one on February 14.
Now where is the lasting fix?

Participating Frequently
November 24, 2013

I'd also like to find a solution for this.

Known Participant
December 30, 2013

I've the issue with the Adobe Cload Updater. So I so not get updates automatically.

Sumit Singh7733893
Participating Frequently
September 20, 2013

Hi Ganbaa.Gansukh,

Please just place the original opm.db file on the desktop

  1. Exit Creative Cloud app.
  2. On Windows remove the opm.db file located here: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Adobe\OOBE
  3. On Mac remove the opm.db file located here: <user>\Library\Application Support\Adobe\OOBE
  4. Restart Creative Cloud Connection and sign in.

Thanks,

sumit Singh

Participant
September 20, 2013

That is totally useless.  I have the same problem  I can't stay logged in.  This started about 3 weeks ago after one of the updates. Now I not only have to log in, but "accept" the license on every single program I use.

Romsinha-9KMEUt
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
September 20, 2013

Hi irish sunshine,

Please try to update CC desktop: https://creative.adobe.com/products/creative-cloud and let us know if still the same issue.

Regards,

Romit Sinha