Creative Cloud Desktop App disappeared, can't reinstall

[Nathan A]

While working on a project, I activated a few Adobe Fonts fonts but was puzzled why they still weren't showing up. Some poking around made me realise the CC desktop app was no longer running, and hence nothing was syncing. I went to relaunch it, only to discover that it's just gone and vanished from my Applications folder. Very odd.

I've downloaded the desktop app installer and tried running that, but it just refuses to work. Either I get a P1 error; it just gets stuck at a random percentage and I have to force quit, or it just comes up as a blank white window and nothing more.

I've tried restarting, I've tried updating to the latest version of Mojave, I've tried running the CC uninstaller, I've tried running the CC cleaner tool, I've tried running Disk Utilities' first aid on the drive just in case. Nothing at all is working.

How does the app just vanish, and how can I get it back installed?

[Nathan A]

Looks like I've managed to get it working by copying the Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud folder over from another machine, and then just running the Creative Cloud app within. Said it needed to do a repair, downloaded something, and started working.