Adobe Dynamic Link troubleshooting. Dynamic Link is a key selling point of the Adobe suite that many people rely on for their workflows. Here's what to do if it doesn't work as expected. This article is mainly aimed to dynamic linking between After Effects and Premiere but many of the suggestions will apply to the other applications in the suite. Adobe Premiere & Adobe After Effects How To Fix Adobe Dynamic Link between Premiere & After Effects.

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A Creative Cloud application installation or update fails and the following error message appears:

It's possible your firewall is blocking Adobe Dynamic Link from working. If you're running Windows, open 'Windows Firewall and Advanced Security' from the start menu and look at the Inbound Rules. You should see the following: If you're on a MAC, go into System Preferences - Security & Privacy - Firewall.

'Please close the following applications to continue - dynamiclinkmanager.'

Close the Creative Cloud apps that you are updating. Most of the apps that are included in the program use a system called Dynamic Link to communicate. So, it's necessary to close all Creative Cloud apps before installing or updating any apps.

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Sometimes the computer can still be in process of shutting down the underlying processes even when the applications are closed. If none of the apps are open, but you are receiving this error, wait about 30-45 seconds and click Retry.

Sometimes the dynamic link process fails to close naturally. Manually close the process.

Go to Applications > Utilities and open Activity Manager.

Click Process Name to sort the processes alphabetically.

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Hold down Ctrl and Alt, then press the Delete key. From the menu that appears, choose Task Manager.

Click the Process Name header to sort alphabetically.

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Restart your machine and install applications or update before launching any products.