Creative Cloud Desktop app not staying logged in on boot.

[DaveH5]

For the last few weeks, my Creative Cloud Desktop app hasn't been automatically logging in and staying logged in when I start my system, as it has done for years.

It runs fine and the blurry white logo appears in the system tray, which used to then go sharp to indicate that it had logged in, and it would then sync.

Now what's happening is that the logo is going sharp, and then immediately going blurry again.

If I click on it, a window pops up saying "You've been signed out. Unable to authenticate your Adobe ID. Sign in again with your Adobe ID and password to continue using Adobe apps."

If I then sign in, it's fine for the rest of that session, but as soon as I reboot, the whole process repeats, which is very annoying!

Occasionally it will log in and stay logged in on next boot up, but most of the time it just logs straight out again as described.

I've tried uninstalling Creative Cloud, deleting all its folders, and reinstalling it again, but no difference, it's still doing the same thing.

Is anyone else seeing this behaviour, and is there a fix?

The app is version 4.6.0.384 on Windows 10 1803.

Thanks, Dave.

[Rebafoto]

As several users already reported more than once in different threads is this forum these suggestions don't solve the problem. It obviously does not help to merely hope that it does... It's really time that someone takes this seriously an works out a solution!

[arij2010]

Hi,

Try this :

1 -

Windows 8 and 10 : "Windows+X" to Access the Power User Menu

Run the Task Manager to quit these processes .

Adobe CEF Helper

Adobe Creative Cloud

Adobe IPC Broker

Adobe Genuine Software Integrity Service

CCLibraries

CCXProcess

Creative Cloud

CoreSync

2 - Rename The folders "SlStore" , "SlCache" and "OOBE" to "SlStore.old" , "SlCache.old" and "OOBE.old" in this location :

C:\Users\<user folder>\AppData\Local\Adobe\OOBE

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\SLStore.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\ SlCache

3-

For Windows :

-> Run any application as admin and sign in .

[vikingnm]

@arij2010's answer seems to be the one, did the trick for me although you have to kill the adobe update service too to do all the ones he mentions.

The connections suggestion for IE doesn't do anything, my settings were just as described in the link given and had no effect on the problem. it is more a cache (term used loosely) problem that renaming the proper folders seems to have corrected.

[DaveH5]

Well I'm pleased it's working again for you, but following that procedure made no difference whatsoever when I tried it.

It could well indeed be a folder permissions problem, but you would think that after completely uninstalling the application, deleting all its data and then running the cleaner tool for good measure, on reinstallation it would actually create folders with the right permissions!

My money is still on it being a problem at Adobe's end. All I know is that my installation wasn't working properly for days, even after cleaning and reinstallation, and then suddenly without me knowingly doing anything, it came good, and (touch wood) has stayed good for nearly a week now.

[plummerl]

I'm pretty sure your money is safe. Since Monday, my login has stayed constant, with nary a change on my end. Of course I never received a whisper from Adobe regarding my bug report.

[DaveH5]

Now back to logging in and then out again immediately again on almost every boot.

"Unable to authenticate your Adobe ID".

This really is beyond a joke now, it has to be a problem at Adobe's end, and presumably because not everyone is having the problem, or at least isn't complaining about it, they obviously don't care about doing anything to fix it.

[Rebafoto]

Things were good for a few days but since yesterday the problem is back and I have to login after every restart of the computer. It's strange that it disappears and reappears randomly which makes it almos impossible to search for the cause...

[t001z]

As many others on here have tried and reported, the posted suggestions are just that, suggestions.  They did not fix the problem for me nor any of the users at my organization.  This was not an issue until CC App version 4.6.0.384 was forced upon us.

I for one am terribly uncomfortable (putting it nicely) following the suggestions at this link posted above or anything that tells you to adjust your Internet Options in this way - very Windows 95 of them.  ***SCREAMING SECURITY PROBLEMS***

Just because there aren't hundreds or thousands of people screaming about it doesn't mean it isn't affecting that many.  I would probably just deal with it if I didn't have 2-Factor Authentication turned on which requires me to get a text message every time I log in, sometimes multiple times a day.

[plummerl]

… and it continues. Multiple required sign-ins, within a span of 10 minutes. Still no actual response from Adobe, other than "hope this helps!".

[DaveH5]

Well touch wood, it seems to have been OK for me over the last couple of days, logging in automatically on boot, and staying logged in.

I hope it stays that way, but I don't have a lot of faith if others are still having the problem!

I'm pretty convinced now that it's a problem at the server end, not in the app itself.

[CapVideo]

I have this same issue - just changed my CC subscription plan in the last couple of days, forcing a new install of Cloud and all of the Apps.  Since then, CC won't stay logged in after a computer shut-down.  I'll try the uninstaller approach, but this is a pain in the butt.

[Abambo]

I know it's frustrating.

You could walk through this (as suggested here: Re: Creative Cloud Desktop app not staying logged in on boot. 😞 Adobe Creative Cloud signs you out or asks you to sign in repeatedly

[DaveH5]

None of that did any good at all then, and I very much doubt if anything has now changed that.

[JUSJO_Creative]

I too am having this issue on 2 separate Dell Precision laptops (1 is a 5510, the other a 5520, both running Win 10).

The Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop app is constantly signing me out and it is really starting to impede on my work.

• I've tried all the Adobe recommended options. No fix.
• Have had Adobe Tech Support remote into both laptops. No fix.
• Have tweeted to @AdobeCare (still no answer to my query after 5 DAYS!)
• It's getting ridiculous now, and I've have had to transfer some media files over to Resolve just to get the job finished on time.

A permanent fix please Adobe???

(Note: when I'm using WiFi the problem is not as regular, but as soon as I connect to the Internet via my Dell TB16 dock (USB-C) or adpater (as these laptops have no Ethernet port) I get signed out of Adobe straight away...so is there a networking issue here, rather than an installation or permissions error I wonder?)

J

[JUSJO_Creative]

Nearly 2 years on and I am still dealing with this issue! 2 YEARS FFS ADOBE!!!

[rosefolsom]

I was expecting to find a fix at the end of this thread. Just got a new laptop and having to sign in to Adobe CC with each reboot. Can't believe Adobe has let it go on this long. Very disappointing.

[arij2010]

I have an Adobe subscriptions since the beginning .My portable trip between home and work and is connected to the wifi and ethernet of both randomly and I never had this worries .I am under Windows 10 and so I think it comes from a problem of permissions and not related to networks and that in this case everyone should have the problem logically.

[Rebafoto]

@ arji2010

I think it comes from a problem of permissions and not related to networks and that in this case everyone should have the problem logically.

The problem is that I have not changed anything on my Computer. The last Windows 10 update was in spring and everything was still fine until the end of June. Then, without changes on the computer (no new software, no changes of permissions etc. only Adobe CC updates), at the end of June this problem started. Therefore it's hard to believe that it is a local problem.

[Abambo]

But still it is a problem for only part of the users. Did you file this as a bug?

[plummerl]

I for one just filed a bug report. This weekend, I was being logged out every 5-10 minutes. I would log in, start up Lightroom. Use it for a few minutes, go to export some photos and I get a "Please sign in request".

Hopefully, someone will show an interest in this. I have several WIRESHARK captures covering the request to log in, running Lightroom and being logged out. Without a guide to the architecture of the CC logged in state, there's nothing I can look for in the captures.

[Rebafoto]

Did you file this as a bug?

I did not, but someone I know did. Adobe support connected remotely to his computer but could not find anything wrong with it nor could they solve the problem.

[Rebafoto]

Maybe Adobe has fixed the problem. Yesterday morning I did not need to login and today I'm still logged in despite shutting down the computer over night. It's maybe too early to jump for joy, but I hope that it stays this way . If so this prooves that there was something wrong on the Adobe side.

[DaveH5]

Well FWIW, mine has actually been OK for several days now, so I think that confirms that the problem was at the server end.

Creative Cloud Desktop did appear to update itself a few days ago, but when I checked the version number hadn't changed.

Whether that was anything to do with it I don't know.

I hope it's now fixed for everyone!

[CAWST]

We're having this issue as well on all of our Windows 10 machines running CC, all software up to date, with internet settings confirmed as in the support link.  Every time they restart the computer they have to log back in.

[CapVideo]

May have resolved the issue on my system...

I was doing routine clean-up of my start-up programs when the Adobe items caught my eye: Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Update Starter Utility.  After investigating it appeared that neither is really necessary to use Cloud or the apps, so I disabled both items and rebooted.  No problems since.