For teams
Has your team been impacted by the discontinuation of Adobe Creative Cloud synced files? Avoid fragmenting your team’s data and – instead – keep everything all together, accessible in the cloud. Dropbox cloud storage provides a single central location for your work.
With a team subscription to Dropbox Business, you get 9 TB of cloud storage – along with must-have features like secure file sharing, fast syncing between devices and file recovery.
What’s happening?
Starting 1 October 2024, Adobe Creative Cloud synced files for business plans will be discontinued and files will be deleted.
Adobe is advising business customers to find alternative third-party storage and to migrate their files in advance.
Teams with a large number of files may struggle to collaborate if shifting to local storage, or risk running out of space.
Introducing Dropbox
Here’s what your team will get when you sign up:
Get 9 TB of storage with Dropbox Business, along with everything you need to collaborate and share your work securely.
Save your project files directly to Dropbox and sync across all devices, perfect for collaboration on large creative projects.
Files become instantly accessible to your colleagues as soon as they’ve synced, without disrupting your team’s workflow.
Mark files as online-only to free up local storage space, and make them available offline again at the click of a button.
There’s no need to send colleagues copies of your latest edits. Dropbox makes it easy to work across multiple devices and platforms, without disrupting your creative workflow. This enables multiple users to collaborate on files without slowing your team’s progress.
When your team collaborates on files in real-time, you need to know that you’re all on the same page.
Dropbox syncs files to cloud storage quickly and reliably, as soon as updates are made. Your team can make multiple updates to files in Adobe Creative Cloud in quick succession and see them reflected in your Dropbox storage in real-time, without the fear of versions clashing and causing errors.
Offline files provide the flexibility to have your most important assets available to you, even when an internet connection isn’t – whether team members are working remotely, on a shoot or anything else. When you’re done, simply mark the files as online-only again to free up your local storage space.
Dropbox seamlessly integrates with Finder and File Explorer, making it quick and easy for your team to manage their files without ever leaving their desktops.
Dropbox’s newly redesigned web experience features a simplified left navigation bar to ensure your team can find the content they need, fast. It also features a unified top-level action bar, enabling team members to create files or take action right from the moment they land on the page.
Colleagues waiting for the latest edit? It’s easy for your team members to keep track of the sync status of their files. Search your files, see recent activity and manage preferences by clicking the Dropbox icon on your PC’s taskbar or Mac’s menu bar.
Sharing work in progress with clients and collaborators has never been easier. Share a Dropbox link – of photos, videos, zipped folders, CAD files and more – with anyone, even if they don’t have a Dropbox account. Dropbox makes it easy to control who can access your files and how much they can do with explicit folder permissions settings.
Want to send a contract for signature? See the version history of a editing project file? Whatever you need to do, by right-clicking a file in your Dropbox folder, you can uncover a whole host of options.
Our graphic designers are scattered throughout the world, so getting those hefty documents sent out through an easy link just makes our life so much easier. Most of our documents get stored in Dropbox so the whole team can access them. Regardless of where we're working, they're there.
Sherina Garcia,Marketing Director at 100 CoconutsIn an announcement post on their customer support platform for business and enterprise users, Adobe states that:
‘To improve the Adobe Creative Cloud storage experience, starting October 1, 2024, we will begin discontinuing Creative Cloud Synced files for business plans, including both Creative Cloud for Teams and Creative Cloud for Enterprise.’
In order to avoid any loss of files, it is recommended that Adobe Creative Cloud customers migrate their files ahead of 1 October 2024.
According to guidance provided by Adobe in their announcement post for business customers:
‘When the service goes offline, files in your team members’ Creative Cloud Files folder will no longer be copied to cloud storage. Files and folders shared from Synced files will no longer be accessible by others inside your organisation or externally. Adobe will also begin to remove the Synced files section on the Creative Cloud website and permanently delete the assets within the cloud storage folder Synced files.’
In order to avoid any loss of files, Adobe are advising customers to find alternative cloud storage solutions, such as Dropbox.
In order to transfer your team’s files from Adobe Creative Cloud to Dropbox, you will first need to ensure copies of the files you need are accessible on a local machine. This could be in your local Creative Cloud Files folder, linked with your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, or simply by exporting the files and downloading them by other means.
You will then need to upload the files to your Dropbox Business plan account, it may help to break your data into batches for upload.
You can upload files and folders to your Dropbox account on dropbox.com and the Dropbox desktop app. Each file or folder uploaded on dropbox.com can be up to 50 GB in size. Each file or folder uploaded on the Dropbox desktop app can be up to 2 TB.
Find out more about uploading files to your Dropbox account.