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  1. Creative Cloud User Guide
  2. Introduction to Creative Cloud
    1. Common questions | Creative Cloud
    2. Creative Cloud system requirements
    3. Creative Cloud file sync | Known issues
  3. Download, install, set up, and update
    1. Download Creative Cloud apps
    2. Open Creative Cloud apps
    3. Start workspace
    4. Update Creative Cloud apps
    5. Change the language of your Creative Cloud apps
    6. Uninstall the Creative Cloud desktop app
    7. Uninstall or remove Creative Cloud apps
  4. Manage your account
    1. Convert a Creative Cloud trial to a paid membership
    2. Reset your Adobe password
    3. Change your Adobe plan
    4. Update credit card and billing address
    5. View, download, or email your Adobe invoice
    6. Fix a failed or missed payment
    7. Cancel Adobe trial or subscription
  5. Creative services
    1. Using Adobe Stock in Creative Cloud apps
    2. Using Adobe Fonts in Creative Cloud apps
    3. Creative Cloud Market is no longer available
  6. Collaboration and storage services
    1. What are cloud documents
    2. Cloud documents FAQ
    3. Create or convert files to cloud documents
    4. Set up cloud documents to use offline
    5. Revert to an earlier version of a cloud document
    6. Share your work for commenting
    7. Why can't I see my cloud documents offline?
    8. Creative Cloud Libraries
    9. Collaborate on Creative Cloud Libraries and folders
    10. Collaboration FAQ
    11. Sync your files using cloud storage
    12. Find how much cloud storage you have
    13. Set sync options
    14. Discontinuation of Creative Cloud Synced files
    15. Download Synced files and content
  7. Projects
    1. Project overview
    2. Create Projects
    3. Share Projects
    4. Create new folders and libraries
    5. Move folders and libraries
  8. Organize libraries
    1. Create groups in libraries
    2. Delete groups in libraries
    3. Delete elements in libraries
    4. Move elements in libraries
  9. Creative Cloud mobile apps
    1. Common questions | Mobile apps
    2. Adobe Creative Cloud for mobile
  10. Enterprise and teams
    1. Enterprise Learn and Support
    2. Teams Learn and Support
    3. Quick start guide for team members
  11. Adobe Content Authenticity
    1. Adobe Content Authenticity (Beta)
    2. Inspect tool on Adobe Content Authenticity (Beta)
    3. Adobe Content Authenticity Chrome browser extension
    4. Content Credentials Generative AI training and usage preference

No Internet access? Learn how to make your cloud documents available offline in Adobe Fresco, Adobe Aero, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, and Adobe InDesign. You can also make them available offline permanently through the Creative Cloud desktop app.

Can I work on cloud documents while offline?

Yes, you can work offline on any cloud document that you have opened recently. To make one available offline, you simply have to open it.

How to check if your cloud document is ready for offline use

  1. Launch your Creative Cloud app.

  2. Select Your files or Files > Your files.

    The Files tab in Creative Cloud desktop app showing different tabs to view your files, files shared with you, your libraries, and so on.
    Your files on the Creative Cloud desktop app display.

    Note:

    For apps available on iPad, select the folder icon in the left rail to view your Cloud documents.

  3. Look for the indicator that a local copy is available.

    The Your files tab showing your cloud documents with indicators - green indicator for files that are available offline, and cloud indicator for files that are available only on cloud.
    A - Online only B - Available offline (or no icon in some mobile apps)

How to make your cloud document available offline

If your cloud document shows  or , open the cloud document and it becomes available to you offline. Some apps let you make a cloud document always be available offline.

What happens when I come back online?

When you're back online, your updated document is automatically uploaded to Creative Cloud and is available across all your devices.

Can I set a document to always be available for working offline?

Yes, you can make your cloud documents always available offline in the Creative Cloud desktop app. With this setting, you don't need to open a document before you go offline. It remains stored permanently in the cloud, but your local copy syncs with any changes you might make on a different device.

  1. Open the Creative Cloud desktop app. (Select the   icon in your Windows taskbar or the macOS menu bar.)

  2. In the Files tab, select Your files. 

    The Files tab in Creative Cloud desktop app showing different tabs to view your files, files shared with you, your libraries, and so on.
    Your cloud documents display.

    Your cloud documents are displayed in the Your files section.

  3. Select the cloud document you want to make available offline.

  4. Select the More actions icon  in the right sidebar, and then select Make available offline always.

    The expanded menu showing actions such as make cloud documents available offline, download the document, and open in web.
    You can now always access your document offline.

Your cloud document now becomes available for offline editing in your app. When you're back online, your updated cloud document is automatically uploaded to Creative Cloud and is available across all your devices.

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