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August 11, 2023
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Creative Cloud stuck at Getting storage information

  • August 11, 2023
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Hey guys, 

 

Our Creative Cloud does not want to sync anymore. It's stuck at "Getting storage information", and it's been like that for a couple of days.  It not a problem with my mac, because our whole team has the same issue at the same time. We've tried all the standard things like logging out of CC, quitting the CC, change permissions to folders, checked our network, ... But nothing has worked.

 

Does anybody else also have this issue? And more importantly a solution? 😉

Or is the only option to completly uninstall and reinstall the creative cloud?

 

Thanks!

Correct answer Sam Cornelis

Hi, I am the colleague of Kathygraphy - and found a solution.

1. Quit all adobe apps.
2. Sign out from creative cloud
3. Quit creative cloud
4. In Activity monitor force quit all adobe and creative cloud processes
5. Go to users/username/application support/Adobe and remove the folders CoreSync and OOBE (or, better: make a copy as a backup and remove them. But in my experience from the past, I have never had to access these copies again).

6. Restart computer (don't know if this is really needed, but might as well do it at this stage)

7. Launch Creative Cloud app, in case this doesn't happen automatically

8. Sign in

9. When syncing starts: pause it, because Creative Cloud starts a new creative cloud folder and moved the old ones to an archive folder. Since we have a lot of files to sycn - as in really a lot - you don't want to download these again, and keep them double on your disk.

10. Browse to the creative cloud folder. In the same location you can see something like "Creative Cloud files (1)" or "Creative Cloud files (archived) (1)". This folder contains your original files. Move them to the newest "Creative Cloud files".
TIP: if you don't see the the archived folder, it might be hidden. In OSX: press cmd+shift+. (period) to show hidden files.

11. Go to creative cloud app, and hit to play button to continue syncing. This might go through all your files again and take a while, but not so long as re-downloading everything.

 

Did this procedure on 4 computers so far, and it fixed them all.

 

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Sam Cornelis
Sam CornelisCorrect answer
Inspiring
August 14, 2023

Hi, I am the colleague of Kathygraphy - and found a solution.

1. Quit all adobe apps.
2. Sign out from creative cloud
3. Quit creative cloud
4. In Activity monitor force quit all adobe and creative cloud processes
5. Go to users/username/application support/Adobe and remove the folders CoreSync and OOBE (or, better: make a copy as a backup and remove them. But in my experience from the past, I have never had to access these copies again).

6. Restart computer (don't know if this is really needed, but might as well do it at this stage)

7. Launch Creative Cloud app, in case this doesn't happen automatically

8. Sign in

9. When syncing starts: pause it, because Creative Cloud starts a new creative cloud folder and moved the old ones to an archive folder. Since we have a lot of files to sycn - as in really a lot - you don't want to download these again, and keep them double on your disk.

10. Browse to the creative cloud folder. In the same location you can see something like "Creative Cloud files (1)" or "Creative Cloud files (archived) (1)". This folder contains your original files. Move them to the newest "Creative Cloud files".
TIP: if you don't see the the archived folder, it might be hidden. In OSX: press cmd+shift+. (period) to show hidden files.

11. Go to creative cloud app, and hit to play button to continue syncing. This might go through all your files again and take a while, but not so long as re-downloading everything.

 

Did this procedure on 4 computers so far, and it fixed them all.

 

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kglad
Community Expert
August 14, 2023

@Sam Cornelis 

 

are you asking a question?

Sam Cornelis
Inspiring
August 14, 2023

@kglad  I said: "found a solution".

This is the solution to the initial question by @kathygraphy 

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kglad
Community Expert
August 11, 2023

@kathygraphy 

 

contact your adminisitrator, https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/kb/contact-administrator.html

 

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post if it helps you get responses.



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Inspiring
August 11, 2023

My administrator has the same problems I have, and has also tried all the standard things like logging out of CC, quitting the CC, change permissions to folders, checked our network, quit CC and closed everything in activity monitor, ...  But nothing has worked so far.

Maybe you have other suggestions? 
(Uninstalling and reinstalling the CC would be a very last resort because we have several gigabytes of files and 4 computers with this issue so it would take hours if not days to sync.) 

kglad
Community Expert
August 11, 2023

@kathygraphy 

 

your admin can contact adobe support.