Access files across devices
Save your XD design as a cloud document, organize them as folders,?and access it at your desk, laptop, or mobile devices.
Last updated on
Oct 18, 2022
- Adobe XD User Guide
- Introduction
- Design
- Artboards, guides, and layers
- Shapes, objects, and path
- Text and fonts
- Components and states
- Masking and effects
- Layout
- Videos and Lottie animations
- Prototype
- Create interactive prototypes
- Animate prototypes
- Object properties supported for auto-animate
- Create prototypes with keyboard and gamepad
- Create prototypes using voice commands and playback
- Create timed transitions
- Add overlays
- Design voice prototypes
- Create anchor links
- Create hyperlinks
- Preview designs and prototypes
- Share, export, and review
- Share selected artboards
- Share designs and prototypes
- Set access permissions for links
- Work with prototypes
- Review prototypes
- Work with design specs
- Share design specs
- Inspect design specs
- Navigate design specs
- Review and comment design specs
- Export design assets
- Export and download assets from design specs
- Group sharing for enterprise
- Back up or transfer XD assets
- Design systems
- Cloud documents
- Integrations and plugins
- Work with external assets
- Work with design assets from Photoshop
- Copy and paste assets from Photoshop
- Import or open Photoshop designs
- Work with Illustrator assets in Adobe XD
- Open or import Illustrator designs
- Copy vectors from Illustrator to XD
- Plugins for Adobe XD
- Create and manage plugins
- Jira integration for XD
- Slack plugin for XD
- Zoom plug-in for XD
- Publish design from XD to Behance
- XD for iOS and Android
- Troubleshooting
- Known and fixed issues
- Installation and updates
- Launch and crash
- Cloud documents and Creative Cloud Libraries
- Prototype, publish, and review
- Import, export, and working with other apps
Learn how to get started with cloud documents in Adobe XD.
Cloud?documents are Adobe's cloud-native document file type that can be accessed online or offline directly from within XD.
Saving your work as cloud documents helps you share, collaborate, and access your work from multiple devices.
Why cloud documents?
Simple and efficient asset utilization
Use linked assets to share and reuse design elements across design systems, or ensure brand consistency across your designs.?
Work offline?
Work on your cloud documents when offline. Documents on the XD Home screen that are available to work offline show a green tick. Your offline version automatically syncs when you reconnect.
Collaborate and share designs
Coedit?and?share your project?for quick iterations.?Collaborate on your designs and share your prototypes on the go.?
Locate past versions
Manage your design revisions or view and open any version of your cloud document. Autosave keeps past versions ready at hand.
Keep your files current
Keep your work up-to-date with the Autosave feature and pick up where you left off on any device. No more manual saving or losing unsaved work!
Access and organize cloud documents
Cloud documents ensure that your work is always updated, across devices with full fidelity.
After your document is saved as a cloud document, you can access it in the?Your files?tab on the XD Home screen?or on the?Creative Cloud website.
You can also:
- Enable the check box next to each cloud document to select multiple cloud documents.
- Click list view (
) or grid view (
) icons to change the view.
- Click the?
?button to open, rename, delete, and move your cloud documents to folders.
Difference between cloud documents and other Creative Cloud files
Your Creative Cloud plan includes different types of cloud storage—cloud documents, libraries, and Creative Cloud files (synced files). These have different uses and benefits.
Cloud documents
With cloud documents, your work is always updated wherever you are and saved to the cloud automatically in the background. The shared format for Photoshop, Photoshop on the iPad, and Adobe Fresco, lets you move seamlessly between them, while XD cloud documents allow real-time collaboration. You can manage your cloud documents right in your app’s Home screen or in the Creative Cloud website.
Libraries
Libraries let you collect and share design elements—graphics, images, character styles, brushes, and color palettes—specific to a project or client. Access these assets in your favorite Creative Cloud apps.?Libraries help ensure you and your team are using the same elements across documents and projects.
Creative Cloud files
Creative Cloud files are saved to the cloud and are accessible from any connected device. Changes you make are synced automatically. You manage Creative Cloud files in the Creative Cloud website and can even upload other files related to a project, so all your assets are together. (Adobe Fresco and Adobe Aero don't support Creative Cloud files.)?
Learn more
To access cloud documents across mobile devices, watch?this tutorial to learn how cloud documents impact file management workflows in mobile devices.
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