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danjonwig
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November 17, 2023
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How do I change accounts without re-installing?

  • November 17, 2023
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This question was asked and answered before: the instruction was to launch the CC app, click the gear icon, and change accounts. However, the UI seems to have since changed, as no gear icon is presented when launching. Here's what I see when I launch (yellow rectangles protect our corporate identity). When I launch the app, it immediately shunts me to the corporate login screen. There is no gear icon, and no way to change account. Since I cannot login with this corporate credential, I am stuck, there seems to be no way to specify a different account. 

 

Please, help?

 

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    Correct answer Nikhil R Gupta

    @danjonwig As per the screenshots, you are using a Federated corporate login. When you enter your email, it will take you to the organization's SSO page, and you have to finish logging in there.

     

    Regarding the error on CCDA. A couple of things I can suggest.

    Solution 1:

    1. Close CCDA.

    2. Close Adobe processes from the Task Manager on Windows or Activity Monitor on MAC.

    3. Remove opm.db

    win: C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Adobe\OOBE\

    MAC: /Users Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE

    4. Relaunch CCDA and check.

    Hidden library MAC 

    Hidden Appdata Windows 

     

    Solution 2:

    Uninstall and reinstall CCDA and check.

    Uninstall tool 

    Creative Cloud for the desktop download page

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    Nikhil R Gupta
    Community Manager
    Nikhil R GuptaCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    November 24, 2023

    @danjonwig As per the screenshots, you are using a Federated corporate login. When you enter your email, it will take you to the organization's SSO page, and you have to finish logging in there.

     

    Regarding the error on CCDA. A couple of things I can suggest.

    Solution 1:

    1. Close CCDA.

    2. Close Adobe processes from the Task Manager on Windows or Activity Monitor on MAC.

    3. Remove opm.db

    win: C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Adobe\OOBE\

    MAC: /Users Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE

    4. Relaunch CCDA and check.

    Hidden library MAC 

    Hidden Appdata Windows 

     

    Solution 2:

    Uninstall and reinstall CCDA and check.

    Uninstall tool 

    Creative Cloud for the desktop download page

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    DanJonWig99
    Participating Frequently
    November 25, 2023

    Thank you. 

    yes indeed, that is precisely the situation (corp login). As mentioned elsewhere, I no longer have access to that account, so I *cannot* complete it, as you suggest. So, my question is, how do I take a step back and use a different (not corporate) login?

     

    re error: that error happens only after I fail to login. I have no doubt that fixing the login problem will obviate the error.

    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    November 27, 2023

    @DanJonWig99 why do you no longer have access to the Corporate account? Contact your Admin to address the account issue.

    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    November 20, 2023

    Hi @danjonwig you're already past the gear icon. You would use that to sign out of the current account. From here you can easily switch accounts simply by entering the email address of the account you want to go to. When you enter the email it should prompt you to choose personal or business account:

     

     

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    DanJonWig99
    Participating Frequently
    November 20, 2023

    Very kind. The screenshot I sent is the very first screen I see when I launch. If I'm past it, how do I go back?

    kglad
    kglad
    Community Expert
    November 21, 2023

    @DanJonWig99 

     

    sign out and then back in to your cc desktop app. you'll then see the option to select profiles.

    kglad
    kglad
    Community Expert
    November 17, 2023

    click help > sign out

     

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    danjonwigAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    November 21, 2023

    Thank you kindly; here is the content of the Help menu. 

     

    I have tried "sign  in using your browser". Bizarely, it doesn't actually launch a browser, it just reloads within the Cloud window, and I get the same thing again; no option to change account

     

    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Kevin Stohlmeyer
    Community Expert
    November 21, 2023

    @danjonwig what does that error show you are covering up?

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