Changed Adobe Account because work related offer, now all my LOCALLY saved files appear to be gone

[MarcStraten]

I always saved my Photoshop projects locally, so my assumption was that they could not be removed/deleted by any one else but me. So i was quite surprised that I could not find any project I worked on for the past two years....

Does anyone know why I can't find my files anymore (not in the map I saved them, nor via any other way). Did Adobe really extract/delete the files from my Mac? And if so, is that even allowed? 

[MarcStraten]

I'd like to add that all my Indesign files are still on my Mac. So it feels kinda random that my PS projects are gone.

[MarcStraten]

Sorry for the constant replying to myself, but it seems that the folder in which i saved my files (named: creative cloud files) has been replaced by a new folder with the same name. Is there any way to get my old folder (and projects) back???

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

If you saved to the creative cloud folder, you didn't save locally, you saved to Adobe's cloud storage service. It's just like Dropbox. That folder is a shortcut.

It sounds like you're logging into a different Adobe account, so naturally you won't have access to the files in your other account. You need to log into the old Adobe account.

And next time, go to a hard drive on your machine, not the CC folder.

[MarcStraten]

Thanks for your reply! But if that folder would only be a shortcut to the cloud, then the files should be in the cloud, woudn't they? Because that isn't so.

And besides from that, I always choose the option 'save on pc' in Photoshop, that hopefully means that I did this and not save them in a shortcut map 🙂

[MarcStraten]

(the files are not in the cloud of my old account I mean)

[MarcStraten]

I'm a bit ashamed. I thought they weren't in my old account, but when I took another look they were (had to choose synchronised files). So D Fosse thanks for your answer 🙂 I'll make sure to save my files into another (back up) device the next time.