How to stop Photoshop from adding new placed smart objects to library?

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June 10, 2020
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I have the latest PS installment. I'm pretty sure this didn't happen before, but now each new smart object I place is automatically added to CC Libraries and I can't for the life of me figure how to disable this feature.

As a result, my laptop lags (just now it freezed and was waiting for something in Libraries) and the cloud is full of useless unimporant pieces of graphics.

Any ideas?

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Correct answer c.pfaffenbichler

To make sure: Are you talking about placed SO (File > Place …) or pasted ones?

The dialog for pasting SOs clearly features a checbox for »Add to my current library«.

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edwardg23747023

Participant

This is ridiculous. I've disabled this SEVERAL times and from time to time Adobe just decides to ignore what I put before and re-enables it. But I do not notice the change and now my library is FULL of items I did not, and never wanted to be added to my library.
SUPER FRUSTRATING!

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

This is ridiculous. I've disabled this SEVERAL times and from time to time Adobe just decides to ignore what I put before and re-enables it.

Well, you may want to ask yourself under which exact circumstances this happens.

Can you reproduce the issue?

Is there any possible relation to updates (Photoshop, OS, drivers, …), other applications, …?

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MADPILOT1

Participating Frequently

Well, that is a rant and seems to do nothing with regard to actual trouble-shooting.

4. Delete all the unnecessary items in my Library.

Linked Smart Objects refer to linked files, so what did you expect deleting the objects you had placed as linked Smart Objects previously would do?

6. realize that OH NO, PHOTOSHOP HAS DEFAULTED BACK TO HAVING 'Add to my current Libary' checked.

Apparently this has not happened for many other Photoshop users so that’s the »point« you should have been focusing on.

Is there any recognizable pattern?

Did any updates, crashes, preferences resets, … precede the reset of the pasting behaviour?

Did you check if the Library objects you deleted might still be available?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/creative-cloud-services-discussions/how-do-i-recover-an-asset-i-deleted-in-the-creative-cloud-library/td-p/7755093

It is an accurate description of how the software you are hired to defend is malfunctioning and behaving in a manner that annoys all users except those getting paid by adobe, be it developers or community managers.

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csscms

Legend

Why is it enabled by default? The libraries panel shows up in many apps from time-to-time, especially after you update to a new version - it's just happened to me in Photoshop after disabbling it sveral times over the years.

We need a CC-wide way of disabling CC Libaries for all apps, forever - as in, never show a libraries panel in any app, for any reason, ever again.

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MADPILOT1

Participating Frequently

I 100% agree. CC Libraries are dumb useless and annoying. The perfect example of how big corp destroys everything. because CEO says "I like smart libraries i'm the boss" (while consistently not fixing 5-10 year old bugs)