Scripting: How to locate "Creative Cloud Files" folder?

My question is: how to locate the path of the Creative Cloud Files folder with a script?

Could you use a companion script that is run once when the script is installed and writes the path to a text file?

An install script could ask the user to choose the CCF folder once, and would write a text file into the same directory as the script. Then the main script could read the text file and get the path. Something like this:

//get this script’s path. NOTE: app.activeScript only works when the script is run from the ID Scripts panel
var path = app.activeScript.path + "/CCFpath.txt";
var ccf = Folder.selectDialog("Please Select Your Creative Cloud Files Folder", "");

//write the path to a text file in the same folder as this script
writeText(path, ccf)

/**
* Write a text file 
* @param the file path 
* @param the text 
* 
*/
function writeText(p,s){
    var file = new File(p);
    file.encoding = 'UTF-8';
    file.open('w');
    file.write(s);
    file.close();
}

 Then your main script would run this to get the path:

var path = app.activeScript.path + "/CCFpath.txt";
var CFF = readFile(path)
alert(CFF)

function readFile(p) {
	var f = new File(p);
	f.open("r");  
	var x = f.read();  
	f.close();
	return x; //returns the file path
}

Thanks, Rob!

Currently I turned off synching anything with Creative Cloud.

My daily work is synched with Dropbox.

However, there could be ( must be? ) another folder somewhere in the file system that is showing the contents of my CC Library assets. Otherwise I could not have access to CC Library contents when I am offline. Of course I have to test this first. I simply do not work with others through the Creative Cloud…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Boris,

I looked up the position of folder Creative Cloud Files on my Windows 10 system. That's on my Desktop. And Desktop is in my user folder. I also looked up what that Creative Cloud Files contains. As far as I can tell there is only a "link" to a target on the web. If I click this link my browser will show my assets on Creative Cloud.

Do you actually see a files and folder structure in folder Creative Cloud Files on Windows?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

The default install location is the top level of the user folder, which you should be able to get like this:

var ccf = Folder.desktop.parent + "/Creative Cloud Files/"

But the CC app lets the user change the location, so obviously you couldn’t be sure that hasn’t happened. I think you would have to ask the user to locate it in the script.

You need to get with your network administrator, or failing that, set absolute rules for defining the "Creative Cloud Files" folder and address that location on every system before you implement your script, then point to your common absolute location. It's common, without a defined network mapping across your systems to have cloud locations assigned on an ad hoc basis by whatever next drive address is available. As you're discovering now.

Even when you're addressing cloud/virtual drives, you can identify them in a common, consistent absolute address. It just needs to be one that's different than a physical network address used anywhere else in the network. That's where a good network administrator can help you find that unique location, then configure the rest of your network to address it (pardon the pun) consistently on every machine on your network. If you don't have that expertise in-house, it may be worth it to hire a contractor/consultant to make that happen for you.

Once you define that common, unique location across the network by SneakerNet on every system, you can write a script to get you where you want to be.

Hope this helps,

Randy