3 BUGS in Adobe Cloud Sync. Dropping settings and consuming disk-space
3 problems in the Adobe Desktop Sync process management of its sync directory.
Settings for the wanted location of the sync directory is forgotten every time the desktop is reinstalled (which is too FREQUENTLY, because of the STILL not fixed problem of getting it to even start up). Every new install resets the sync directory to "C:\users\username".
When moving the sync directory (through the Desktop preferences) it FAILS (maybe not consistently) with a "cannot create" message, if the "Creative Cloud Files" directory already exists because if was already moved with an earlier Desktop install. I have to manually rename or delete the sync directory from the data drive, before the change in folder location succeeds.
Every time the Desktop is reinstalled, it renames any existing sync directory and creates a NEW "Creative Cloud Files" directory. It then leaves "archived" copies of your Creative Cloud behind. Eating disk-space on both system drive and data-drive (related to problem 1). With no warning or notification to the user at all.
It belongs to this, what even after a SUCCESSFUL move of the folder location (from C: to E:), after copying all cloud files to the data-drive, it STILL leaves the copy of "Creative Cloud Files" with all its files behind on the C-drive. The E-Drive copy is now active, and the copy on the C-drive is just wasted space left behind.
I DO NOT want the cloud files to sync to my smaller SSD system drive, where it default will put it. The base login user directory (C:\users\username) may be on the system drive as otherwise Windows will deem data-drives a "system drive" and include it in system backups, but all the standard Windows user dirs, such as Documents/Pictures/... are relocated to data-drives. Per standard Windows functionality.
With a POTENTIAL for 100 GB of Creative Cloud files, that means that if people check their user directories (typically C:\users\username) they will find all these archived copies, named "Creative Cloud Files (archived) (number)" with numbers increasing.
See my two images attached. From my boot drive and main data-drive where all user files normally reside. Relocating data directories works perfectly for other user-dirs, both local standard (like Documents and Pictures) AND for things like OneDrive and other cloud services.
Except for Adobe Cloud, which cannot figure out how to manage its sync-directory point correctly.
With a potential for up to 100 GB sync to the Adobe cloud, that is a significant chunk of disk-space people could loose off their drives every time they are forced to reinstall the Desktop (and then again "move" the sync directory). Not good.
The attached images showing 5 copies on my C-drive and currently 3 copies on my E-drive are AFTER I through time has cleaned away these goofy directories several times by deleting the archived copies.

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Dridd commented
Add to this a problem 4.
From what I can see, after an install of the Desktop, when it creates a totally new "Creative Cloud Files" directory, it then syncs that empty directory with existing cloud content. Instead of using the data (up to 100 GB) and the directory already there.
A SERIOUS waste of internet bandwidth (and cost off my cellular plan) to sync everything one might have stored in the cloud down again.