Feelin’ the Adobe love today!

I just got an error on a Photoshop file:

Could not edit original smart object because the disk is not available.

There is no disk other than the one the original file is on. It’s an embedded object. So I open another PSD with a smart object. (I love smart objects, all my PSDs have them.) Same error. Third file, same error.

So I’m thinking: that’s FOUR YEARS of work on this machine, that I can’t open.

Ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

A little bit of sleuthing on the Adobe Forums and elsewhere returned ... nothing really. A lot of advice to re-attach the disk with the smart object. Thanks a lot, guys.

So in kind of a Hail Mary play prompted by no information whatsoever I deleted all my Adobe caches from ~/Library/Caches/Adobe/.

Which, for some powerfully non-obvious reason, works.

I would love love love for Apple’s “We hate you, Flash!” iOS policy to somehow, improbably, totally and utterly destroy Adobe. I can think of no software company — not even Microsoft — whose products I use so frequently (all day every day!) and yet hate so intensely. (Because, if you’re a graphics pro, there is no alternative.)