How to Move Adobe Apps to Another Drive Without Creative Cloud

Are you looking for some ways to help you move Adobe apps to another drive without Creative Cloud? Do not worry, this passage will give you some useful ways with detailed steps to solve your problem. Now you can read this article.

Adobe specializes in creating and publishing software for a wide variety of content, including graphics, photography, illustration, animation, multimedia, video, film, and more. Whether you're a graphic designer, web designer, photographer, illustrator, marketing expert, or work in television and film, it has most of the tools for you. Adobe has a series of software, including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe InDesign CC, and so on.

Then, the problem that many people often have is how to move these massive Adobe apps to somewhere else, like another drive. This article from EaseUS will provide you with some effective solutions. Now, you can continue reading this article.

How to Move Adobe Apps to Another Drive Without Creative Cloud

If you do not have Adobe Creative Cloud installed on your computer or do not want to use Adobe Creative Cloud to help you move your Adobe apps to another drive, this section will give you two solutions.

1. Fix 1: Using EaseUS Todo PCTrans
2. Fix 2: Perform Reinstallation

The above are the two solutions for you to move Adobe apps to another drive without Creative Cloud. And then, you can continue reading to learn about the detailed steps of the two solutions we provide.

Fix 1: Using EaseUS Todo PCTrans

The first method is by using third-party software: EaseUS Todo PCTrans, which helps you seamlessly move Adobe apps to another drive without using Creative Cloud. As such, it is a utility not to be missed. EaseUS Todo PCTrans has a powerful migration function.

In addition to Adobe apps, it can also help you safely move a variety of other computer programs, large files, and applications installed on the C drive to another drive, such as Microsoft Office, YouTube, Netflix, etc. EaseUS Todo PCTrans is able to keep your data intact during the transfer, and you can start and use the xx as normal after moving it to another drive. Therefore, EaseUS Todo PCTrans is a very good choice.

There are some detailed steps for you to learn how to move Adobe apps to another drive with EaseUS Todo PCTrans:

Step 1. Launch EaseUS Todo PCTrans and select transfer mode

On the main screen of EaseUS Todo PCTrans, go to "App Migration" section and click "Start" to continue.

Step 2. Select apps and another drive to transfer

1. Select the source partition and tick applications, programs and software (marked as "Yes") that you'd like to migrate.

2. Click triangle icon to select another drive or disk as your target device and click "Transfer" to start the migration.

Step 3. Finish the migration process

When the transferring process finishes, click "OK" to complete.

You can restart your PC to keep all the changes, and you should be able to run your migrated apps on the other drive again.

Actually, in addition to the above function of helping you move Adobe apps to another drive, the EaseUS Todo PCTrans also has other functions as follows, and you can read about them if you need to use this software to help you solve your future possible problems.

• Help users transfer games to the external hard drive from the PC
• Help users uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud
• Help users transfer files from PC to PC

In addition to the above functions, the EaseUS Todo PCTrans can help you move Steam games to another drive. Therefore, it is believed that the EaseUS Todo PCTrans is a good option for you to solve your current and future problems. So you can try this software to move Adobe apps to another drive without Creative Cloud.

Fix 2: Perform Reinstallation

The second fix is to move Adobe apps to another drive by uninstalling your Adobe apps and reinstalling them on another drive again.

Compared with the first fix, the second fix is a little inferior. If you have any Adobe apps that need to be moved to another drive, then this process of uninstalling your Adobe apps and reinstalling them on another drive will take a long time and be complicated for you. Therefore, if you do not want to uninstall your Adobe apps, it is suggested that you choose Fix 1, which is a better option for you.

Of course, if you just need to move one or two Adobe apps, you can refer to the second method. Here are some steps for you as follows:

Step 1. Type Apps & Features in the search bar of the Start Menu, and then you should choose Apps & Features poping from the search results.

Step 2. Enter the Apps & features. You should type the name of the Adobe apps you want to move to another drive in the search bar.

Step 3. Select the Adobe apps you want to move.

Step 4. Choose Uninstall and follow its instructions to uninstall your Adobe apps.

Note: If you don't want to keep the application preferences, select Remove Preferences.

Step 5. Enter the official website of Adobe, and choose the Adobe apps you want to reinstall.

Step 6. Download and install the Adobe apps on the drive you want to move.

The above are all the steps to uninstall and reinstall your Adobe apps on another drive. In a word, the method is also helpful for you to move Adobe apps to another drive without Creative Cloud. Therefore, you can consider one of the two above methods to determine the most suitable method for you.

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Why Move Adobe Apps to Another Drive Without Creative Cloud

Before discussing how to move the Adobe applications to another drive without Creative Cloud, we need to know why we move the Adobe apps to another drive. There are some situations in which you may often meet, and you can look at these situations to determine which one you fall into.

• First, your C drive has limited space. Generally, Adobe programs are installed on C drive by default. Over time, they continuously take up the free space of the C drive.
• Second, you want to make backups of your Adobe applications.
• Third, your Adobe applications are taking too long time to start.
• Fourth, your Adobe applications crash frequently.
• Fifth, your computer gives you a warning that you have insufficient disk space.
• Sixth, you need to use Adobe applications on the drive you share with your team members.

Of course, no matter which of the above situations you fall into, the solutions in this article are perfect for helping you solve the problem of moving Adobe applications to another drive and help you install Adobe Apps on the external hard drive.

However, moving Adobe apps to another drive is not as simple as copying a file or a document. If you don't take a sensible approach, you may not be able to open and run Adobe applications successfully after the move. So, the next section will provide you with some solutions to unravel the puzzle of how to move Adobe apps to another drive without using Creative Cloud.

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Conclusion

In this passage, we have talked about how to move Adobe apps to another drive without Creative Cloud by providing two useful methods. It is believed that this passage will solve your problem.

In a word, by comparing the above two methods, the first method is more operable and simple for users with simple clicks. EaseUS Todo PCTrans can help users move their Adobe apps to another drive and save more time and energy. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you can choose third-party software: EaseUS Todo PCTrans.

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How to Move Adobe Apps to Another Drive Without Creative Cloud FAQs

This passage has discussed the methods to move Adobe apps to another drive without Creative Cloud. If you have other related questions as follows, you can read them.

1. How do I move Adobe from C drive to D drive?

Step 1. Open your Adobe Creative Cloud.

Step 2. Choose the three buttons in the top right and enter Preferences.

Step 3. Open the tab of Creative Cloud and choose Change.

Step 4. Select a new location for your Adobe apps, and it is your D drive.

Step 5. Uninstall and then reinstall your Adobe apps.

2. How to move Adobe programs to another computer?

Step 1. Navigate to the PC to PC mode on the old computer where Adobe is installed.

Step 2. Click PC to PC.

Step 3. Select New to move Adobe programs from the old PC to the current new PC.

Step 4. Connect the new computer to the old PC, and input your account password or verification code of the old PC.

3. Can I move Adobe to an external hard drive?

Yes, you can run your Adobe apps from an external hard drive. You need to install the Adobe apps on the external hard drive by using Adobe Creative Cloud and then launch the Adobe apps from your external drive.