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Open Creative Cloud app. Click Preferences, then Syncing. Folder Location = “/Users/toasterlovin”. That, to me, indicates that it will try and sync that folder.

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Ah, no. I see your point, this is as a fellow poster indicated, the location for your Creative Cloud Files folder. I will check with the team to see if we can make the language clearer.

Thanks for being so responsive. This is a truly alarming UI.

While you're at it, please ask the user whether he wants to sync at all during installation. By default it should not sync.

I only have Creative Cloud installed because I am a Lightroom and Photoshop user. I use the sync feature in Lightroom but do not need another generic file system cloud sync.

"Folder Location" = "location where a folder will go." Like when choosing where to unzip something, or where to create a new library bundle in Photos/Music.

I get that now. But it’s trying to sync a folder, so why not just point to the folder it’s syncing?

Because, like every other sync solution out there, though for what reason I don't know, it fears the consequences if you are allowed to name the sync folder yourself.

Not perfectly analogous to specifying folder names yourself, but the infamous Steam deletion bug comes to mind. (https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671) Caused by a failure to use readlink (plus not sanity checking variable contents), so introducing a symlink would break it.

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