Cannot verify when working offline

Same issue. Totally unacceptable. Installed and verified a day early for a 16-hour flight & unable to use software I am paying for offline and lost more than a day's productivity. This needs to be fixed.

Hi Mate, I'm having this issue as well. It's just ludicrous that Adobe charges for a product that it wont let you use when the program cant find an internet connection. I'm seriously thinking of cancelling my CC subscription after being an Photoshop, Premiere etc user for over 25 years. Good luck finding a solution. Looks l;like I'm going to have to do a clean install of all the apps. Do you think I can charge adobe for having to solve their own buggy issues?? Never happened when we could just buy a program, install it and be done! Davinci it looking pretty good right about now. 

Sounds like something in your install is corrupt. I'd uninstall the CC desktop app and reinstall. I've been told that you get an option to "repair" before the actual uninstall, so that might be worth a try.

Before you complain about subscription - this kind of thing happened with perpetual licenses too, and were no easier to resolve.

Can you confirm your system specs (assuming you want to take some time to try to get the issue resolved)?

Thanks, Derek. Would be a lot easier if adobe just did this for me: a file integrity checker seems pretty easy instead of me wasting half a day doing this. 

I simply don't save enough time using adobe's time-saving features to offset the time spent dealing with bugs like this.

And just for clarification, I am not getting a reminder. I am getting the option to connect to the internet or quit the app(s). If I could do so, one (very sub par and unprofessional) workaround would be to use a hotspot from my phone to validate the licence. But a) why should I? and b) I can't with the data esim I am using in Thailand.

How much RAM and spare hard disk capacity do you have?

Consider using the Adobe Cleaner Tool to remove the Adobe applications and have a clean install.

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

Thanks for the suggestion. Last logged into CC about a week ago to update apps. The issue was when trying to open the app with a terminally poor internet connection. Now all the apps are sulking and refusing to open without the internet.

The licence may be corrupted but that is not my place to fix.

Subscription all up to date. Checked on adobe.com. That's not the problem. Thanks for the suggestion though.

With a standard one-year subscription, the license needs to be verified once every thirty days. It will still work for up to 99 days, but with reminders and nag screens.

So if the applications won't open, your licensing has been broken or not valid for three months already. Did you get a new credit card and forgot to update the card number? Is there a firewall blocking the connection?

The quick fix (if payment is current) when offline, is to hook up your phone, open the CC desktop app, and then sign out/sign in. That gives you another 30/99 days.